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Capitalization of Administration in Subcategories[edit]

I have noticed an inconsistency in the subcategories of this category regarding the capitalization of "Administration/administration" in the category names, and was wondering if consensus could be established regarding capitalization in the subcategory names.--TommyBoy (talk) 19:44, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Personally, I think the lowercase "administration" should be used. --Eastlaw ^talk ⁄ _contribs 21:31, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Eastlaw:, thanks for the response, while conducting research relating to my question, I have determined that there have been previous attempts to correct this inconsistency through the Categories for Discussion process which were unsuccessful for some reason, and I'm wondering if we should try again.--TommyBoy (talk) 02:00, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Would probably be worthwhile bringing it to CFD again. Personally, I also think that the lowercase "administration" should be used, but there was disagreement about this in the old discussion. But either way, consistency is probably better to have than inconsistency. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 03:23, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Good Olfactory:, I thought about submitting a proposal on this question to Categories for Discussion, non-withstanding the previous 2008 discussion since consensus may have changed on that issue in the last eight years, but was not entirely sure how to formulate the proposal since I have no preference other the establishment of consistency among the subcategory names, and due to the large number of categories and subcategories that could be affected by such a proposal.--TommyBoy (talk) 14:27, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

One way you could do it is to produce two alternate proposals, an option A and and option B. In option A, you could nominate the capitalized categories for renaming to lower case. Then in option B, you could nominate the lower-case categories for renaming to capitalization. Then you could state that you don't really have a preference for one option over another and that consistency is the goal of the nomination. Then users who participate and !vote for either option A or option B. This format is used reasonably often at CFD. For an example, see here. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 22:40, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]