Talk:Bachelor of science

Miscapitalization?
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 * Bachelor of arts – Google Ngram
 * Bachelor of education – Google Ngram
 * Master of business administration – Google Ngram


 * All pages with titles beginning with Bachelor of
 * All pages with titles beginning with Master of

— wbm1058 (talk) 13:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you're driving at when you say this should not be a redirect from a miscapitalization. Decent dictionaries show "Bachelor of Science" (capitalized). I can't find or imagine any cases where WP articles should show it in lower case. There are no longer 450+ articles that link here, as I found it easy to fix a few dozen of them. It would not be a Herculean task to fix them all, but it's certainly not your place to tell me to do so. If it doesn't bother you to have hundreds of articles with wrong capitalization, then you can work on any other aspect of WP, but it doesn't help for you to interfere with the work of editors who are trying to make WP look professional. Chris the speller  yack  05:03, 10 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Can we try to come to an agreement as to whether "bachelor of science" is a miscapitalization or an acceptable alternative in Wikipedia style? We can list the discussion at WT:MOSCAPS if you two don't agree (I'm pretty neutral). Dicklyon (talk) 04:41, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
 * And I'll happily do the fixing if that's what we decide. Dicklyon (talk) 04:43, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
 * The main issue with me is the work needed to enforce this. New biographies are constantly being added by authors with limited to no experience with Wikipedia's guidelines and while technically the capitalized form is correct, when incorrectness becomes widespread eventually it may be fully accepted. Language isn't static – it evolves. If one of you wants to fix this I'm OK with enforcing it for now. I'm just tired of seeing it on the list, and a bit annoyed that Chris wants someone other than himself to fix it – albeit not me personally, there hasn't been much anyone else besides me, until I recruited you. – wbm1058 (talk) 04:58, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, I'll work on it. Dicklyon (talk) 05:17, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you missed my remarks on the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents page yesterday. Once more: please see WP:NOTCOMPULSORY and WP:VOLUNTEER. Also see WP:DEADLINE: "You are not obliged to edit". You should not be annoyed at an editor for what you perceive to be an omission on their part, or for their lack of interest or action on some subject that you are concerned about. They may work on what they like, when they like, and at the pace they like, or they can take a break for a few years. I have fixed the case in many "bachelor of science" occurrences, not that it's any business of yours. Just as you can not obligate me to perform any edit, I can not obligate you. If you see something in WP that should be changed, you may make the change, make a note of it to change later (even way, way later), or completely ignore it, with no guilt. What you can't do is interrupt other editors who are being productive, even when you think they are making edits you feel of are lesser importance. I shouldn't get dragged back into this discussion again, except perhaps to view an apology.  Chris the speller   yack  15:11, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
 * no ping WP:NOTCOMPULSORY: Wikipedia is a volunteer community and does not require Wikipedians to give any more time and effort than they wish. Focus on improving the encyclopedia itself, rather than demanding more from other Wikipedians. I'm not getting through. Changing R from other capitalization to R from miscapitalization is de facto an edit that demands more from other Wikipedians. Focus on changing Bachelor of science to Bachelor of Science yourself. For many essays, there is a counter-essay: There is a deadline. A significant part of the community is concerned about drive-by template-taggers; cleanup where often No cleanup reason has been specified. That seems like a WP:NOTCOMPULSORY violation to me. I don't mean to imply you do this, just saying that the idea that the idea that no editor ever asks another editor to do something is a nonstarter. – wbm1058 (talk) 15:55, 12 March 2022 (UTC)