This article is written in
American English, which has its own spelling conventions (color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other
varieties of English. According to the
relevant style guide, this should not be changed without
broad consensus.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Brands, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
brands on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BrandsWikipedia:WikiProject BrandsTemplate:WikiProject BrandsBrands articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Business, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
business articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BusinessWikipedia:WikiProject BusinessTemplate:WikiProject BusinessWikiProject Business articles
This article has been given a rating which conflicts with the
project-independent quality rating in the banner shell. Please resolve this conflict if possible.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Technology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
technology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.TechnologyWikipedia:WikiProject TechnologyTemplate:WikiProject TechnologyTechnology articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the
United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions.
This article has been given a rating which conflicts with the
project-independent quality rating in the banner shell. Please resolve this conflict if possible.
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.
Comment I assume the capital Note is the official capitalisation, i.e. "Post-it Note" as a whole is a formal product name. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (
投稿)
17:28, 30 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment. Just for informational purposes: There was a
previous discussion about moving this article to the title "Sticky note" in 2015, which garnered only opposes. And
here is where it was unilaterally moved from "Post-it note" to "Post-it Note" in 2018.
Deor (
talk)
22:03, 30 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Ok, some good points, some not so good. I think 'sticky note' may be becoming more common, but this may be driven by
electronic version of the phenomenon, and it may be true that the 'Post-it' is notable in its own right.
YorkshireExpat (
talk)
22:17, 30 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose. I agree with rockstone35's opinion, these are sold as "Post-it Note" by my googling, so we should not be implying it is more genericness than it is. --
Quiz shows15:42, 1 November 2022 (UTC)reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Information Studies
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 17 January 2023 and 11 March 2023. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
Appleby2102 (
article contribs).
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. While there is a consensus for moving this page, there is no consensus on what should be the title. Per
WP:NOTCURRENTTITLE, I've picked "Post-it note", basing it on the content of the article, which has a good chunk of content about the brand, and in Skynxnex's !vote. If anyone opposes this decision, please start a new RM. (
closed by non-admin page mover) –
MaterialWorks11:20, 27 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Post-it Note →
Post-it note – or Sticky note. The lowercasing would revert an undiscussed move of 3 April 2018, back to the title the article had during the
RM of 2015. The trademark is merely "Post-it"; it does not include the word "Note". The company itself consistently used lowercase for the last word in the phrases "Post-it note" and "Post-it notes" for its
history publication and always puts the registered trademark symbol "®" next to "Post-it", not after "Note" or "Notes". The logo does not include the word "Note" – it just says "Post-it", and the products have "notes", somewhere else on the label, often in lowercase (see
here a picture that shows "notes" in lowercase if you zoom in to look at the pictures of the product label).
Google Ngram shows lowercase very dominant. If there was a trademark for the full phrase, it would probably be plural as "Notes", but this title is singular as "Note". The company website has some overcapping, but does that to a lot of things, like the second word in "Post-it® Products". Sorry for reopening this question, but the last RM was tainted by a sockpuppetry problem and did not contain any of the information I provided in this rationale. —
BarrelProof (
talk) 18:50, 13 August 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. —
DaxServer (
t ·
m ·
e ·
c)
08:56, 20 August 2023 (UTC)reply
SupportSticky note.
This ngram evidence indicates that the general term is more common than the trade marked term. I don't see then, why we should be "advertising" for 3M. Sticky note should clearly not be capitalised - ie use normal sentence case (see
here). Nor should we capitalise "note" in "Post-it note" (see
here).
Cinderella157 (
talk)
01:01, 14 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Support Move to
sticky note - While I certainly do not believe the current title is an advertisement, Google Ngrams data shows the generic term is in far heavier use.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ)
11:10, 14 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Support either Post-it note for clarity or just Post-it (no real preference which since with "note" is a bit more usefully
WP:PRECISE but without is
WP:CONCISE and apparently the trademark). The article feels like it's primarily about the brand and not the generic concept of such a product. Also, I think looking at ngrams if you also include "Post-it" (since I think "Post-it" without "note" is quite commonly used) in
ones search (even though that has more false positives), it turns out that "Post-it [note]" is the common name.
Skynxnex (
talk)
03:16, 18 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Please avoid relisting before the discussion's initial week has finished; this can be interpreted as a sort of finger on the scale.
Dekimasuよ!09:17, 20 August 2023 (UTC)reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Wiki Education assignment: WRIT 340 for Engineers - Fall 2023 - 668386