Talk:Basic Formal Ontology

Requested move 10 June 2018

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The result of the move request was: Not Moved. Consensus against move. (non-admin closure) –Ammarpad (talk) 20:14, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Basic formal ontology → Basic Formal Ontology – Re-establish title in upper case as is done for proper names and as it was used before User:Tony1 attacked it 85.180.29.96 (talk) 14:08, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose. It's not a proper name. What is required is a grasp of the complex of relations between 1) various ontological categories, 2) proper names, and 3) best-practice English-language capitalisation conventions. The verdict on BFO – in WP practice and more widely – would depend on its status as the name for a theory in academic philosophy versus its status as a business name (or quasi-business name). And when in doubt, downcase—that's the WP maxim. Tony (talk)  13:54, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose, per MOS:ISMCAPS and WP:NCCAPS. This is a common-noun phrase. The anon's testy WP:ILIKEIT position, unclear on what proper name actually means (this is a descriptive phrase, not a name) is just the usual "specialized-style fallacy", i.e. "capitalize it because some journals and other writing between specialists likes to do that".  If we accepted that kind of reason, then nearly everything on WP would be capitalized, because almost all specialities and special interests like to over-capitalize things in their area as a form of emphasis, and nearly everything is subject to at least one specialization.  — [[User:SMcCandlish|SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  17:30, 12 June 2018 (UTC)


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