Talk:Statement on auditing standards

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The result of the move request was: moved. ErikHaugen (talk &#124; contribs) 07:41, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Statements on Auditing Standards → Statements on auditing standards –

Per WP:MOSCAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and WP:TITLE, this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. In addition, WP:MOSCAPS says that a compound item should not be upper-cased just because it is abbreviated with caps. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles. Tony  (talk)  14:08, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Support. This article is about the generic term and should be de-capitalised accordingly. Jenks24 (talk) 05:28, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
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Requested move 6 January 2020

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The result of the move request was: page moved (non-admin closure)   CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  07:16, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Statements on auditing standards → Statement on Auditing Standards – I put this as a technical request, although I was trying to kill two birds with one stone and should have done a full RM straight away. I hadn't noticed the previous brief discussion because I was checking the talk pages of various redirects, and I missed it.

Sorry. Never mind, let's start.

As far as I see it, "Statement on Auditing Standards" is a proper noun. It is not some general statement on auditing standards, "I think auditing standards are too lax" or whatnot, it is a specific kind of document required by the Generally Accepted Auditing Standards, which as you see is in initial caps. GAAS issues "Statements on Auditing Standards", each of which is a Statement, singular, the two we have articles for are Statement_on_Auditing_Standards_No._55 and Statement on Auditing Standards No. 99: Consideration of Fraud.

Whether the plural "Statements" or singular "Statement" should be used is a fine point, but these are particular things that are proper names.

Declaration of interest per WP:COI: my wife is a financial auditor, but not under GAAP rules but she never edits Wikipedia and has not asked me to raise this on her behalf. There is no conflict of interest. This is purely WP:NCCAPS as a proper name. 94.21.38.148 (talk) 15:05, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Statements on auditing standards → Statement on Auditing Standards – WP:PROPERNAME. WP:PLURAL. These are not general but specific, cf. Generally Accepted Auditing Standards. Each Statement is singular. 94.21.38.148 (talk) 08:07, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Not really a proper noun. It should just be moved to the singular without uppercasing. Move to  per WP:SINGULAR, but do not change words to use uppercase: This is a common noun, not a proper noun. It refers to a type of statement, not one specific statement. See, for example, Individual retirement account and the recent RM at Talk:Tax-free savings account. —BarrelProof (talk) 19:43, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:52, 6 January 2020 (UTC)


 * queried move request Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:52, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Move to  per BarrelProof.  C Thomas3   (talk) 22:59, 20 January 2020 (UTC)


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