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Requested move 20 February 2020

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved (non-admin closure) BegbertBiggs (talk) 23:01, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]



– Compliance with policy Wikipedia:Article titles, specifically WP:CONSISTENT; and the guidelines contained within Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography, specifically MOS:JOBTITLES. Numerous lists exists concerning British prime ministers, and currently there is inconsistency with capitalisation. Most article titles in the scope are decapitalised.

Per MOS:JOBTITLES, the capitalised PM article titles should be decapitalised, because they denote an office, as opposed to a title. Editing with Eric (talk) 15:28, 20 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That is definitely an issue with current article titles, often it is addressed in article leads that it was Great Britain before 1801 but it's nonetheless problematic. I think a change like that would see a couple obstacles however,
I actually agree that some of these article titles could be improved, but that would probably be outside the scope of a simple capitalisation move here. Editing with Eric (talk) 10:55, 26 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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 or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.