Talk:NAVTEX

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Should be NAVTEX
I don't care enough about it to do all the necessary editing, but the British Admiralty and the US National Weather Service refer to it as NAVTEX, not Navtex or navtex.

--plaws (talk) 15:15, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 31 July 2019 (outcome: moved)

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The result of the move request was: Moved. User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 01:55, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Navtex → NAVTEX – The WP:COMMONNAME is NAVTEX with all caps. Glrx (talk) 01:14, 31 July 2019 (UTC) Glrx (talk) 01:14, 31 July 2019 (UTC) --Relisted. – Ammarpad (talk) 08:31, 10 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Support Both forms are in common use, so we should keep the Navtex redirect. But NAVTEX is the official name for it. -- 02:04, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
 * What about WP:TITLETM / WP:ALLCAPS / MOS:TM? I notice that just a few days ago, there was a major uppercasing edit of the article. The "official" formatting doesn't really matter so much. It seems clear that this is pronounced as a word, not spelled out letter-by-letter. —BarrelProof (talk) 16:04, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I see those links as permitting and even preferring NAVTEX. "On Wikipedia, most acronyms are written in all capital letters (such as NATO, BBC, and JPEG)." Online dictionaries do not have the term (it is not like scuba), but online acronym finders use the uppercase version. I do not see NAVTEX being the same ilk as scuba; a huge portion of the population knows about scuba diving, and many people spend vacations doing it; those who do it write "scuba" rather than "SCUBA"; writing "SCUBA diving" today just seems wrong. Those who do NAVTEX use "NAVTEX" mostly, but you will see "Navtex" and even the rare "navtex". Furthermore, NAVTEX is used for broadcasts in the related NAVAREAs and METAREAs, both of which are capitalized Wikipedia titles. It seems inconsistent to talk about Navtex broadcasts in a NAVAREA; more sensible is NAVTEX in a NAVAREA. Glrx (talk) 15:53, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
 * NAVAREA and METAREA have rather unusually formatted names for Wikipedia. For example, it appears that "area" is a word, not an initialism. Those articles also don't cite many sources, and some of them are dead links. In fact, all of the citations in the NAVAREA article are dead links. —BarrelProof (talk) 05:51, 2 August 2019 (UTC)


 * NAVTEX is the common usage IRL so it should be the usage here. These  semantic (and notability!) discussions drive me bananas! It's quite simple:  It's NAVTEX, not navtex.  No matter how hard you may wish it wasn't so.  And yes, of course there should be redirects from other capitalizations. --plaws (talk) 15:12, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose not an acronym In ictu oculi (talk) 20:41, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Support WP:TITLETM says follow standard English text formatting in the case of trademarks, unless the trademarked spelling is demonstrably the most common usage in sources independent of the owner of the trademark. Based on some searches of the web and Google Books I think "NAVTEX" is demonstrably the most common usage, though "Navtex" is not uncommon (I'd say it's roughly a 70:30 split). Interestingly, MOS:TM says editors should examine styles already in use by independent reliable sources. From among those, choose the style that most closely resembles standard English. So my reading of policy says "NAVTEX" should be the title, but we should use "Navtex" in running text. Which is a little weird, but whatever. Colin M (talk) 21:25, 19 August 2019 (UTC)


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