Talk:Sturges's rule

Requested move 24 April 2024

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The result of the move request was: moved. – robertsky (talk) 13:41, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Sturges' Rule → Sturges's rule – It is best to respect WP's style guidance, especially in article titles, when there's no compelling reason to do otherwise. Here both MOS:CAPS and MOS:POSS have been ignored by the last move of this title. Let's get it right. Dicklyon (talk) 19:39, 24 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Support per nom. Primergrey (talk) 22:09, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Support the capitalization and possessive change. SchreiberBike &#124; ⌨ 20:01, 25 April 2024 (UTC)


 * The rule is universally called "Sturges' Rule", see any of the references in the article or Google. Changing it would make Wikipedia the only place it's written differently. Style guidance is just that, guidance, and shouldn't mean that the commonly used name of something is changed. WikiNukalito (talk) 08:16, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
 * There are exceptions to the way possessives are indicated (see MOS:POSS), so maybe this should be one, but Wikipedia is quite consistent in how it handles capitalization of rules etc. See MOS:IDEOLOGY, where it says:
 * "Doctrines, ideologies, philosophies, theologies, theories, movements, methods, processes, systems or 'schools' of thought and practice, and fields of academic study or professional practice are not capitalized, unless the name derives from a proper name."
 * So while the way Wikipedia capitalizes may put this rule out of step with the rest of the universe, it will be consistent with other rules on Wikipedia. (There are probably examples on Wikipedia which do not follow Wikipedia style, but other stuff exists is not a good argument. If you find other examples, let us know and we'll work on those too.) Thank you. SchreiberBike &#124; ⌨ 19:48, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
 * And here are over a hundred books that use "Sturges's". Dicklyon (talk) 21:10, 27 April 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.
 * Support— -s's is not ideal, but it's all we've got (-s' is worse). Downcase per our rules. Tony (talk)  06:57, 2 May 2024 (UTC)