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User:SMcCandlish/Logs/My RMs, July–August 2014

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About a month's worth of my rename discussion paticipation, starting from late July and running into late August, 2014, until I got tired of copy-pasting all this stuff. I'm on the right side of these way over 90% of the time.

Direct to disc -> Direct-to-disc [1] – uncontested, unreverted

  • Swedish Blue duck → Swedish blue duck [9] – Moot: This landrace (not breed) article would have been renamed per MOS:LIFE as I suggested, but the article was rewritten and re-sourced to obviate this by changing it to an article on the landrace and a same-named breed derived from it, and re-focused on the breed, which should be capitalized. I closed the RM myself as rescinded, as it had become a scope discussion.[10] I leave it to readers of Talk:Swedish Blue duck to decide whether changing the article's scope was just an exercise in keeping capitalization at all costs. The article would be fine lower-cased and focusing on the original landrace and its wide influence, rather than the narrow, formal breed, but regardless, my article name cleanup efforts triggered the significant expansion of an article that probably would have received no additional attention for years. Not exactly "disruptive".

Regular RMs I opened

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  • Tom Shows → Tom show [17] – Unopposed. (It seemed speediable to me, but safer to list as a full RM because it involved both a plurality fix and a case fix.)

Regular RMs others opened

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  • Neo-impressionism → Neo-Impressionism [19] – I weakly supported on a technicality, RM closed as "no consensus" (not moved). I'm "secretly" happy about this, because it's one crack in the armor of treating visual art but not any other movements/genres, as capitalized proper names for no explicable reason.
  • Love You like a Love Song → Love You Like a Love Song [22] – I supported the move, but RM closed as "not moved", on an MOS point, but MOS doesn't actually address use of "like" as a proposition. MOS sanctions lower casing short common prepositions like "in" and "from", but not all of them. I think a second RM would overturn this. If not, it has implications for possibly many thousands of articles on published works with longer or less common prepositions in them ("against", etc.) which are actually conventionally capitalized in titles.
  • Hui-Ling Wang → Wang Hui-ling [26] – I strongly supported this move (fixing Asian names put wrongly into Western order is long over-due); RM closed as "moved".
  • Tomi Jurić → Tomi Juric [28] – I tentatively opposed for lack of evidence; sources were provided in response, and RM closed as "Page moved" (I call that a "win").
  • White-collar boxing → White collar boxing [35] – I opposed the moves, RM closed as "not moved". This one was an attempt to revert a direct move I'd made earlier. As usual – because I based moves on policy, not on what I might like on my own blog or whatever – the move was "controversial" to one person (if any at all) but not the community when put to the longer RM test.
  • War rape → Wartime sexual violence [38] – I supported, but to alternate title Wartime rape as more concise and less p.c. buzzwordy; article was moved to the originally proposed title, as more general, a result I'm okay with. (My favoring of concision is very weak, and yields to utility; I supported the userspacing of User:Born2cycle/Concision razor as an essay that doesn't actually reflect consensus.)

Other naming discussions

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