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Diagonal Method →
Diagonal method – Per
WP:MOSCAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and
WP:TITLE, this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. In addition,
WP:MOSCAPS says that a compound item should not be upcased just because it is abbreviated with caps. Lowercase will match WP's formatting of laws, methods, rules, hypotheses, etc.
Tony(talk) 13:08, 8 September 2014 (UTC)reply
I don't understand how such an approach can be "registered" or patented; and the status of such a registration at a trademark office in the Netherlands is unclear. It's like registering the use of Perspective in paintings, or Cropping in photography. How can you stop people using it? If this really were a trademark, they'd be suing all over the place for failure to attribute (and I see no attribution in this WP article). There are frequent uses with lower case, just on a quick google search—and books are likely to downcase even more, given our experience.
Here, for example, and
here, and
here, in Dutch no less.
More—and note the diagonal method in all of these sources ... not any, but the one.
Tony(talk) 14:25, 9 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Support downcasing, but maybe disambiguate – and maybe delete – since I find no registered trademark at uspto, nor any source that states it's a trademark, and since the method is described as a "rule of thumb"; it doesn't sound like a mark used in trade. I look at the history shows this article was previously created and re-created at the lower case title, but I PROD'd it and it returned to being a redirect and then a disambig page when the upper-case one came in. I'm not convinced that the notability issue has been resolved, since I can't find any actual coverage of this topic; Tony's links above are to forum posts and to different topics of the same name.
Dicklyon (
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20:45, 9 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Thanks Crisco. But what I really wanted to know was whether you think "(photography)" should be inserted into the title. That's the way I'm leaning, after Dick's comment.
Tony(talk) 11:35, 9 October 2014 (UTC)reply
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