Talk:2016 Canadian census

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Vpab15 in topic Requested move 9 November 2020

Requested move 9 November 2020

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The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) Vpab15 (talk) 19:09, 3 January 2021 (UTC)Reply



2016 Canadian Census2016 Canadian census – "Census" is a common noun and should be lowercase, consistent with census articles in most other countries. This should go for the rest of Category:Censuses in Canada. See also Talk:2020_United_States_Census#Requested_move_10_November_2020. Reywas92Talk 21:15, 9 November 2020 (UTC) Relisting. TheTVExpert (talk) 15:20, 23 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

  • StatCan does not use “Canadian Census” as an official name of the event so it is therefore not a proper noun. As mentioned above, it uses “Census of Population” as the official name of its census program event. That is the proper noun used to describe a Canadian census. Hwy43 (talk) 00:54, 25 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • Oppose It's capitalized in reliable sources—blindlynx (talk) 18:40, 26 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
    No, it is not near-consistently capitalized in RS, and that is our rule. See first rule of MOS:CAPS.  — SMcCandlish ¢ 😼  03:38, 1 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
  • Support per WP:NCCAPS and MOS:CAPS, which state that Wikipedia only capitalizes words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources. Reliable sources do not consistently capitalize the term; in fact, the majority of occurrences in recent Google Ngrams for the 2011 version show that a slight majority favors no capitalization, even without correcting for titles/headers. CThomas3 (talk) 03:41, 30 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • Support per all of the above: MOS:CAPS and WP:NCCAPS are clear on this, sources do not even come close to consistently capitalize this, and the govt. of Canada itself doesn't even use this as an official name (which is "Census of Population", not "Canadian Census"). It's simply a descriptive phrase. Every argument to capitalize this fails, and we have guidelines for a reason. Just follow them, and stop trying make up fake "proper names" (cf. WP:NOR). See also WP:PNPN for people confused in any way about what "proper name" means on Wikipedia.  — SMcCandlish ¢ 😼  03:38, 1 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

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