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Case of "Ferris wheel"[edit]

As per Ferris wheel#The original Ferris Wheel, Marchjuly, the "Ferris" part is in fact a proper noun, for George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., and our article gives it a capital letter throughout. Merriam-webster, Collins Dictionary, Cambridge Diictionary, and Vocabulkary.com all show it with a capitol letter. So i think this edit should be undone. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 00:46, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I already undid it; however, I think that is more common these days to treat the noun as a common noun and not a brand name ([1], [2]) like is the case with many iconic brand like "Coke", "Xerox", "Google" when used as a common noun in a sentence. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:48, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

But it isn't just a brand, it actually includes the real name of an actual person, like the Winchester rifle or the Otis elevator. Perhaps it is becooming what Willard R. Espy called an "improper, uncommon noun" -- tha tis a word half-way between the two states. But a najority of current major online dictionaries seem to use a capital for it. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 00:56, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's fine either way, but I don't believe a lower-case "f" would really be considered universally wrong these days depending upon the context in which the word is used. Anyway, I did revert almost immediately after I made the edit and the upper-case "F" is fine. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:01, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

One thing to consider is that while it's true that Ferris is the name of the person who "invented" this type of attraction, the term itself is pretty much used commonly used to refer to for all such attractions; the same, however, cannot be said for Winchester or Otis. There are many types of rifles and elevators and you wouldn't particularly say "I'm going to take the Otis elevator" or "I'm going to grab my Winchester rifle", unless you really wanted to emphasize the make/model/manufacturer, etc. I'm not sure the same can be said for Ferris wheel (which seems to be more of a case of Ferris' wheel) when the words are used almost as a compound noun to refer generically to a type of amusement ride; for example, one would more like say "Let's ride the ferris wheel" than "Let's ride the wheel" when referring to the amusement ride, unless "wheel" was the actual name of the ride. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:40, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Citation date format[edit]

It might be worth considering tweaking the citation date format per MOS:DATEUNIFY. The article uses the Month-Date-Year format, but the citations are using the all-numerical format. Both formats are OK for the |access-date= parameter in citations per MOS:DATEFORMAT, but publication dates in the |date= parameter shouldn't really use the all-numerical format. Since this is a new article, it might be a good idea to establish which format should be followed so as to make it easier to keep things consistent as the article is expanded. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:47, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, not all numerical. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 00:58, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]