Talk:Registered nurse certified in neonatal intensive care

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Requested move 3 September 2022

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. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 22:06, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

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• Registered Nurse Certified in Neonatal Intensive Care → Registered nurse certified in neonatal intensive care
• Registered Nurse Certified in Maternal Newborn Nursing → Registered nurse certified in maternal newborn nursing
• Registered Nurse Certified in Inpatient Obstetrics → Registered nurse certified in inpatient obstetrics
• Registered Nurse Certified in Low Risk Neonatal Nursing → Registered nurse certified in low-risk neonatal nursing

– Per MOS:JOBTITLES, MOS:SIGCAPS, MOS:CAPS#Expanded forms of abbreviations, MOS:EXPABBR. Please see the recently closed RM at Talk:Aircraft maintenance engineer/Archives/2022#Requested move 26 August 2022. The case where someone is trying to use capitalization to indicate some kind of "officialness" or special meaning or certified job title is a common controversy around here, and it is not hard to find examples of article titles that use such capitalizations. But I think there is basically no support for that in the Wikipedia policies and guidelines, at least unless it can be shown that a term is consistently capitalized in independent reliable sources. Declarations by authorities, such as governments or certifying institutions, are usually not persuasive. A Google Ngram shows that "registered nurse certified in" appears to be more common in book sources than "Registered Nurse Certified in" (a string which the Ngram was unable to find in sources). Registered nurse is also a role that requires certification, but "nurse" is not capitalized in the title of that article. Another possibility would be "Certificate in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing" or "RNC Certification for Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing" or "Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing Core Certification" (the latter two being per this official website about the certification) and similar, so that the article is about the certification itself rather than about the specialized role of the people who have this certification. Please note that I included a hyphen in one of these, since that seems like a more conventional construction for that compound modifier. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 23:49, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

• Support lowercase per MOS:JOBTITLES, etc. Nom has it right and in detail that I won't repeat. I think this is mostly MOS:SIGCAPS actually, the belief that one should capitalize a job title like this to "signify" it as special.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:02, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

• Support per nom and SMcCandlish. The case is convincing wrt evidence and guidance. Cinderella157 (talk) 11:51, 7 September 2022 (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.