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{{templatename| section=section name !! reason=a short summary of the discussion !! time=20:54, 18 February 2008 (UTC) }} —Preceding unsigned comment added by Boomgaylove ( talk • contribs) 15:54, 18 February 2008
its not a Chevron refinary in Richmond its the Richmond Chevron Refinary, there's only one. its the name of the place. its JFK High School not JFK high school.Cholga talK! 03:02, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
no it's not, but Chevron Richmond Refinary isCholga talK! 03:38, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
As usual, you are wrong, and I can prove it. Here's a sampling of (mostly) news articles that mention this very refinery (it's not as if they're hard to find or anything, as the facility is constantly causing problems of one kind or another):
Even Chevron's own press releases sometimes don't capitalize the name, like this one: "The Chevron Richmond refinery, which employs more than 1,450 employees and more than 100 contractors, is one of the largest refineries on the West Coast with a 240,000 barrel-per-day capacity."
So it should not be capitalized. Just because Chevron capitalizes it in (most of) their own press releases does not make it correct here. + ILike2BeAnonymous 07:18, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
What matters is what Chevron calls it. An obscure miscapitalization is obviously a typographical error. Ah0000000ga ( talk) 07:43, 21 December 2007 (UTC) it should be capitolized. Umiumitooti ( talk) 01:06, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Boomgaylove ( talk • contribs) 15:53, 18 February 2008
Hi. Just popping in from the Language Reference Desk. Someone here seems to think that we over there know all about capitalization, and some of us actually do. I hope I'm one of them. First off, it doesn't matter what anybody else does, including Chevron itself. Here at Wikipedia we have to go by the Manual of Style. The first line on the MoS page about capitalization says it all: "Wikipedia follows a conservative usage style for capitalization (unnecessary capitalization is avoided)." There is nothing on that page that justifies capitalizing "refinery". If you ask me, though, capitalization is the lesser issue with that sentence. "The Chevron Richmond refinery" is puzzling to the reader. It's not immediately apparent what Chevron we're talking about, or whether there isn't a "Chevron Richmond" we should have known about. If I came in cold to copyedit, I would change it to "Chevron Corporation's Richmond refinery is just east of the range." -- Milkbreath ( talk) 21:56, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
That wont make sense, we can say Sara lives near Washington High School, the Chevron Corporation has a major refinery nearby, Great Mall Shopping Center, ACME Corporation headquarters, and city hall. We need to use the place's name for the sentence in question. Boomgaylove ( talk) 23:03, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
That's the sentance in question, obviously
wont work. nor would.
that doesn't make sense to me. Boomgaylove ( talk) 23:08, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
It should just be:
this is a simple grammer issue, it doesn't need to be defused. Boomgaylove ( talk) 23:09, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
To solve this grammer issue we need to determine and form concensus on a few fundamental issues:
You might like to know that User:Boomgaylove has now been blocked indefinitely per this thread ( permalink) at ANI. -- jonny- m t 02:41, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
I saw an edit which said the Potrero Hills are in Contra Costa County, not Solano County. That puzzled me because the info box with the county was automatically generated from USGS GNIS data. So I looked into what GNIS has to say about it. Sometimes there can be more than one place with the same name, which we'd disambiguate by adding the county to the title. More often, there's an actual difference in the official name. Here's the result: we need to split the article because the name and the content are mixing up two different sites:
I hope that helps. Ikluft ( talk) 06:02, 20 February 2009 (UTC)