Talk:Year of three prime ministers

Requested move 26 February 2023

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The result of the move request was: moved. Favonian (talk) 20:03, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

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Year of Three Prime Ministers → Year of three prime ministers - Per MOS:JOBTITLES, as "prime ministers" here is a description. Titles are written in sentence case, so "Three" becomes "three". Consistency with Year of three popes. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 19:05, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

• Support: Makes sense per WP:MOS. This is Paul (talk) 19:13, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Support per nom Estar8806 (talk) 21:53, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Note that the linked other instances in the "See Also" section all have proper noun casing, with the popes being the exception.

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• Year of the Three Emperors (German Empire, 1888)
• Year of the Three Kings (several years)
• Year of three popes (thirteen years, plus one year of four popes)
• Year of the Four Emperors (Roman Empire, 69)
• Year of the Five Emperors (Roman Empire, 193)
• Year of the Six Emperors (Roman Empire, 238)

BhamBoi (talk) 05:55, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Yes, but those are all (barring three kings) actual articles with content about a specific year. The popes and PMs are all WP:SETINDEXs, and as such, their article titles are descriptions. So, whilst "Year of the Three Emperors" is a legitimate title about a year that can be capitalised, "Year of three prime ministers" is not. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 13:39, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

• Support: for the SETINDEX articles, the term is not being used with a specific referent and should not be capped (pretty much per JOBTITLES). The others are also questionable, since we would rely on consistent usage in sources. See ngram Year of the Three Emperors and ngram Year of the Four Emperors (ngram Year of four Emperors). The other years of n emperors don't give ngram results for the two variations. The Year of the Four Emperors is debatable/marginal since a clearer trend to cap is since about 2011 and could be ascribed to the Wiki article. Cinderella157 (talk) 10:54, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Support per nom --- Tbf69 P • T 14:26, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

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