Talk:Kendal Black Drop

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: not moved. No prejudice against a new nomination discussing the merits of either of Dick's proposals. Jenks24 (talk) 19:52, 8 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Kendal Black Drop → Kendal black drop –

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. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles. Many sources do not cap. Tony (talk) 06:45, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Well, many 19th-century sources do not cap. However, a Google Books search shows that sources have used uppercase nearly exclusively for over a hundred years; in the first 10 pages of results, I found no source that used lowercase after 1908. An ngram seems to confirm this, with the lowercase version not registering at all. Dohn joe (talk) 18:29, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, but maybe just Black drop would be a good solution. This was the generic name; the Kendal and others seem to brands, from my look at sources. The black drop appears in books from 1805, and the name Kendall shows up in 1812, and "Kendal Black Drop" not until 1838. Or Black drop (opium) if we don't want to use that two-element dab page for it. Dicklyon (talk) 04:38, 2 June 2012 (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. No further edits should be made to this section.