Talk:Special interest group

[Not just computer associations]
The term Special Interest Group isn't specific to computer associations. Eg, Mensa, National Model Railroad Association, NIH. This needs to be expanded. JDX 07:27, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[Mathematical Association of America]
The Mathematical Association of America has Special Interest Groups. Emil Volcheck (talk) 03:52, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Special Interest Groups, Special interest groups, Advocacy groups, Presssure groups etc
I have started a discussion on Talk:Interest group regarding some proposed adjustments to the articles around advocacy groups. This does not directly affect this article (except to resolve the nonsense where Special interest group was redirecting the Interest group (as in Advocacy group) rather than to this article until I changed it this morning. Clearly the terms 'Interest group' and 'Special Interest group' are used in many different ways around the world and can either mean this sort of group or an Advocacy/lobby group however we do need a more consistent set of article titles and redirects than we currently have. Please add any comments you have to the Talk:Interest group discussion. PeterEastern (talk) 11:42, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

History of the term
Stumbled across this article and saw that the term was credited to Compuserve (and chasing that down, to a TRS-80 group, meaning very late 70s or early 80s). I don't know where the term was actually first used, but it was in use by the ACM no later than the late 60s - SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics) dates to 1969, SIGPLAN (Programming Languages) dates to 1967 (prior to that it was a SIC - Special Interest Committee), SIGOPS (Operating Systems) dates to 1968 (a descendent of an earlier SIG whose founding I can't find), etc., and by 1965 or 1966 at latest there seemed to be a formal process to convert a SIC to a SIG, implying they may have existed for a while by then. I'm not updating the article because I have no reason to believe that the ACM's usage was the first, and I tend to believe that it is an obvious enough term that it was probably "invented" numerous times. 108.74.28.81 (talk) 15:50, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 22 February 2021

 * 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  (t &#183; c)  buidhe  16:37, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Special Interest Group → Special interest group – This is a common-noun phrase, not a proper name, so no need to capitalize. It is not capitalized in collinsdictionary.com or macmillandictionary.com. Of course, proper names exist (such as Special Interest Group for Programming Languages), but this article covers the generic term. It is often abbreviated to "SIG", and so there is a temptation to capitalize the expanded term also, as many editors are not aware of MOS:CAPSACRS, which says "Do not apply initial capitals in a full term that is a common-noun phrase, just because capitals are used in its abbreviation." Chris the speller  yack  15:36, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. Not a proper noun. Rreagan007 (talk) 22:40, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Support per nom and per Rreagan007. BD2412  T 05:37, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Dicklyon (talk) 06:31, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. Obviously. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:34, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Support its clearly generic even though many specific meanings exist.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 21:02, 28 February 2021 (UTC)