Talk:Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's singles

Requested move 31 January 2020

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

No consensus. There is no clear consensus for the proposed move, after extended time for discussion. There is also an open question of whether the proposal applies to the single article named, or the small set of nearly identical articles noted, or to a larger subset of articles, or to all articles containing the phrase "Men's Singles" (without even broaching the question of "Women's Singles" or any kind of "Doubles"). This appears to be a discussion requiring a larger forum for complete resolution. BD2412 T 23:14, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's Singles → Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's singles – MOS:CAPS, Badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's singles, Luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's singles, and so on. Sawol (talk) 02:33, 31 January 2020 (UTC) —Relisting. Steel1943 (talk) 18:55, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose moving thousands of articles just to fix a perceived capitalisation error per WP:TITLECHANGES. Iffy★Chat -- 09:34, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

  There aren't thousands. There is one. Maybe we could find a few more that should be fixed (especially as new 2020 ones are created), but by and large the WP:OLY project has managed to consistently name these articles. -- Jonel (Speak to me) 11:56, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

  There is thousands of tennis articles that capitalise "Singles" (or "Doubles"), so yes, this move would exacerbate the inconsistency. Iffy★Chat -- 19:46, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

  Then don't move the non-Olympics ones. -- Jonel (Speak to me) 19:57, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

• Support having articles at the correct place, consistent with all of the others. This should not be controversial. -- Jonel (Speak to me) 11:53, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
• Support "Men's singles" is the correct title, not "Men's Singles". Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 15:43, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
• Support. The insinuation that we shouldn't fix a typo because it might be hard or a lot of work is galling. This is Wikipedia. We live for this shit. Axem Titanium (talk) 21:29, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
• Support should be uncontroversial... Pelmeen10 (talk) 22:02, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose - this would bring a lack of WP:CONSISTENCY with all other tennis tournament articles, e.g. 2019 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles, 2020 Australian Open – Men's Singles. The other Olympics tennis tournaments were recently moved without discussion and should also be moved back. Either all such articles should be proposed for move, with participation from WikiProject tennis, or none should.  — Amakuru (talk) 10:11, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose - I'm not sure if this is more under Olympic Project or Tennis Project jurisdiction. No matter... While I do agree that Olympic articles are a completely different thing than tennis articles, I have a big problem with this move request... sourcing. Why the heck would anyone want to use the term "Men's singles", capitalizing only "Men's"? In seeing hundreds of sources through the years I quite often see "Men's Singles", which Tennis Project has endorsed, and also both terms lower cased "men's singles." Having one term different than the other looks very strange, and I can't go along with such an oddity. Fyunck(click) (talk) 11:28, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.