Talk:Flocculent spiral galaxy

Requested move
Flocculent Spiral Galaxy → —

MOS:CAPS, MOS:TITLE

According to the Manual of Style, the title of this article should not be capitalized. When it was originally requested at WP:AFC, the title was not capitalized. When it was requested as a speedy at WP:RM, the reasoning was MOS:CAPS.

The speedy move was contested. So here's a full WP:RM.

70.29.208.247 (talk) 01:08, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Survey

 * Please indicate your position here, with a support for the proposal, or opposition to it, and a rationale for your position.


 * Support as nominator; other galaxy types are similarly not capitalized. 70.29.208.247 (talk) 01:14, 27 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Support For the reason above. --Extra999 (Contact me +  contribs) 15:22, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose The search bar ignores cases and capitals. It is unnessisary to change the case--Alpha Quadrant (talk) 21:39, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Support and comment Eh? You shouldn't have reverted an admin move anyway. If you wanted to move it, you should have left it alone and contested it at WP:RM. At any rate, it obviously qualifies under WP:CAPS (not MOS:CAPS). Miracle Pen (talk) 08:03, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Reply the manual of style says that Celestial bodies should be capitalized when used as a noun. The title of this article is a noun. I did not know that the user who moved the article was an administrator. I noticed that the page had been moved and that the move was unnessisary so I moved it back to its origional title. Sorry if this caused any problems.--Alpha Quadrant (talk) 21:10, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * What MOS says is that the names of galaxies are proper nouns. "Flocculent spiral galaxy" is not the name of a galaxy; it's the name of a type of galaxy. It's not a proper noun. Miracle Pen (talk) 02:46, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Support per nomination and User:Miracle Pen. "Flocculent spiral galaxy" is not a proper noun. --emerson7 20:30, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 * comment: recommend speedy close. --emerson7 05:50, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Use this section for other comments related to the move

Remove Pinwheel picture?
The photo of the Pinwheel in the list of examples looks like an excellent instance of a grand-design spiral, not a flocculent one. So what's it doing here? Jmacwiki (talk) 05:43, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Now replaced with M63, which is flocculent. Jmacwiki (talk) 23:17, 14 April 2018 (UTC)