Talk:Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act

Requested move 6 January 2017

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The result of the move request was: No move. After 19 days and a relisting, we have no agreement that another name is more common or otherwise preferable. Cúchullain ^t/c 15:51, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

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Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act → Survivors' Bill of Rights Act of 2016 – For the record I don't support this move but it appears this wasn't listed correctly so adding to the RM process. Not sure if the comments above could be incorporated into here? Zarcadia (talk) 21:38, 6 January 2017 (UTC) --Relisting. Bradv 02:36, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Copying in from prior section:

Requested move 24 November 2016

Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act → Survivors' Bill of Rights Act of 2016 – The current title is incorrect, since the name of the legislation is Survivors' Bill of Rights Act of 2016 Jaeminsung (talk) 03:30, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

• Agree See the congressional record, which confirms the correct name is Survivors' Bill of Rights Act of 2016 --Mr. Vernon (talk) 03:34, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

• Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME. A good example is Patriot Act. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 18:57, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

• Support. Indeed, Pub. L. 114–236 (text) (PDF) §1 asserts that the act should be cited as "Survivors' Bill of Rights Act of 2016". In addition, the current title has the detriment of containing a quotation mark character rather than a straight apostrophe, which is discouraged by WP:TSC. This should be an uncontroversial move; I'd suggest proposing it as a technical move request. —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 05:54, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose. We don't use the "correct" or WP:OFFICIALNAME, we use the WP:COMMONNAME which is Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act. [1] vs [2] Zarcadia (talk) 17:57, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose unless someone shows that the proposed name is more common. But fix the apostrophe (I did that in the article already). Dicklyon (talk) 04:45, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
• Already fixed the apostrophe glyph since that's required by WP:MOS regardless of the RM outcome.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  05:01, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
• Support (and possibly shorten), or lower-case it. Either move it to the proper name, which is properly capitalized as Survivors' Bill of Rights Act (it is not necessary to include the year as a natural disambiguation, since there's nothing to disambiguate it from, and legislation is usually not referred to with the year attached except to disambiguate, or in legal case documents), but I would not oppose Survivors' Bill of Rights Act of 2016. Otherwise, move it to the descriptive title sexual assault survivors' rights act, since that is not a proper name but a summary of what it is. Note (and this is important) that WP:COMMONNAME is not one of the naming criteria (go look it up). It's what WP:AT policy suggests to use as the most likely name to fit the actual WP:CRITERIA. It does not always work, or we would have no naming policy other than COMMONNAME. WP:PRECISE in particular would suggest using the proper name of the law, since various jurisdictions have laws like this (and more will yet in the future), such that there are multiple sexual assault survivors' rights acts, under various names. Continuing to use the descriptive title (incorrectly capitalized or not) will only lead to more confusion over time.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  05:01, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Relisting Comment: please note that just mentioning WP:COMMONNAME by itself is not an argument. We need to come to an agreement as to which title actually is the common name. Bradv 02:36, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

• oppose "sexual assault survivor's act" is how it's referred to in slate, glamour, huff post, motherjones....Fred (talk) 04:11, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

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