Talk:Employment cost index

Please do not change this back to what is was before.

I work for the BLS and WE produce the ECI, not the BEA.

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The result of the move request was: Moved Uncontroversial requested move.. Alpha_Quadrant   (talk)  17:31, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Employment Cost Index → Employment cost index –

WP and almost all other sources downcase CPI when expanded. The ECI might well be produced by the US government, but so what: so is its version of the CPI. The ECI is now in the same category in real life/language as the other well-known indexes. Per WP:MOSCAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and WP:TITLE, this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. In addition, WP:MOSCAPS says that a compound item should not be upper-cased just because it is abbreviated with caps. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles.

Just a few examples:
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 * Following is the text of the employment cost report released by the Labor Department" ... unsure why people would downcase this and then upcase the index it's referring to.
 * (upcased in their title, but not in their main text).
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Plus many more.

I didn't move this name in case there might be real objections. So here's the RM. Tony  (talk)  09:02, 17 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Support – suggest speedy close as non-controversial; straightforward MOS:CAPS backed up by evidence in sources (google books). Dicklyon (talk) 23:35, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
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