Talk:SEA Write Award

Move to S.E.A. Write Award?
Since it's the way it appears in the logo and on the web site. Paul C 16:48, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, you're right, of course. -Wisekwai 22:04, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Requested move 7 May 2024

 * 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: moved. (non-admin closure) Safari Scribe Edits! Talk! 09:28, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

S.E.A. Write Award → SEA Write Award – MOS:ABBR, MOS:TM. Wikipedia doesn't use "X.Y.Z." old-fashioned acronym/initialism stylization, even when some external entity prefers it. A quick review of external source material about this subject shows that numerous other publishers also write it "SEA Write Award[s]" not "S.E.A. Write Award[s]", following their own internal style guides, as we certainly should. (Indeed, it appears that the actual majority do, outside of a certain sector of news publishers, but Wikipedia is not written in news style as a matter of policy, anyway.) There is nothing "magically special" about this case that demands an exception. It is entirely sufficient that the dot-laden version will redirect to the more WP:CONCISE and WP:CONSISTENT dotless title. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  02:37, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Neutral. Looking above, it appears I was the one who suggested renaming to the current punctuation back in 2006. The dotted version still seems to dominates Google's top results, but I'll defer to those more familiar with the naming conventions. --Paul_012 (talk) 18:55, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Nothing about our manual of style ever, for any reason, has anything to do with "Google's top results". This is not an SEO popularity contest, and Google (or other search engine) top results for most subjects are virtually always news publications, which follow their own style that in many ways diverges from encyclopedic and other academic writing (and in particular very often kowtows to stylization preferences of trademark holders while WP has an entire guideline against doing that). Repeat: Wikipedia is not written in news style, per policy.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  09:45, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Support per MOS:POINTS. Graham (talk) 18:29, 8 May 2024 (UTC)