Talk:Retail Price Index

ONS terminology
ONS seem to have changed their website. I have updated the external link. Note that the hierarchical position of the linked page is "Home > Browse By Theme > Economy > Price Indices and Inflation > Consumer Price Indices > Retail Prices Index". This suggests that ONS (now?) consider the RPI to be one of the consumer price indices, another of which is the Consumer Price Index. Other things at that website also imply they are using this terminology, which to me seems confusing; I'm not sure it's actually worth mentioning on the main article. Open4D (talk) 15:09, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Article name
Incidentally I have issues with this, which was marked as a minor edit, with a summary of "moved Retail Prices Index (United Kingdom) to Retail Price Index: apparent primary topic". The "apparent primary topic" of this article is clearly the RPI in the UK, so I don't understand why the "(United Kingdom)" bit is being removed from the name. Please note that the term does appear to be used in non-UK contexts as well - even if not with the same significance. (For example, I did a search for "Retail Prices Index" and got 4 results (1, 2, 3, 4) where it wasn't used in a UK context, versus 5 where it was.)

Also, changing "prices" back to the singular form - despite the explanation given when it was made plural ("moved Retail Price Index (United Kingdom) to Retail Prices Index (United Kingdom): The UK National Statistics Office seems to call it the Retail Prices Index.") - seems wrong. The article does have a reference for a use of the singular, but in addition to the ONS using the plural, it seems that even legislation uses the plural: from 2007 back to at least 1984. As such I think the article name should be exactly what it was before, i.e. "Retail Prices Index (United Kingdom)". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Open4D (talk • contribs) 16:12, 29 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Because Retail Prices Index (United Kingdom) already exists, I don't think I can move Retail Price Index to it. The use of Requested moves seems to require some (not unreasonable) bureaucracy, which I may get round to doing at some point.
 * Incidentally, the renaming that I want to revert did have an "undo" button. I tried it, but wasn't surprised when it didn't work.  (In fact, it gave the appearance of accepting my 'edit', but then ignored it.)  Open4D (talk) 16:33, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

bad link ref 2
try www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/user-guidance/prices/cpi-and-rpi/history-and-differences---cpi-and-rpi.pdf Brownturkey (talk) 12:15, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

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Requested move 17 July 2020

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Consensus to move page. (non-admin closure) —  Young Forever (talk)   16:04, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Retail price index → Retail Price Index – This article is about a specific price index, the UK's Retail Price Index. The article consumer price index is correctly lower case, because it is about consumer price indices in general, whereas Consumer Price Index (United Kingdom) and United States Consumer Price Index are correctly capitalised as specific examples. In the same way, this article should have a capitalised title. MOS:CAPS is the relevant policy. Mauls (talk) 15:09, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support. This is a specific index, and it's either capitalized or abbreviated as RPI in the sources. kennethaw88 • talk 23:25, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support. Retail Price Index is the title of a specific index rather than a description of a category of indexes. For that matter - Consumer price index should probably be Consumer price indexes... } — GhostInTheMachine talk to me 14:15, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support. Yes, it's a proper name. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:57, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support. As above, proper names s/b capitalised. FerdinandFrog (talk) 14:21, 22 July 2020 (UTC)