Talk:List of honorary fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge

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Requested move 17 March 2024[edit]

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. (non-admin closure) Killarnee (talk) 06:49, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]


– Per MOS:JOBTITLES, MOS:CAPS, WP:TITLECAPS and for consistency. The noun in all of these article titles is plural. All 307 titles with "List of fellows of [something]", including the five titles resulting from the recent RM at Talk:List of fellows of the British Academy elected in the 2020s#Requested move 4 March 2024, are using lowercase. The conflicting proposal at Talk:List of fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery#Requested move 3 March 2024 has been closed without a move. Also, there are a total of 62 "List of honorary [somethings]" articles, including the List of honorary fellows of Somerville College, Oxford, which is in the form proposed here and is an Oxford topic like many of these.
Lists of people who hold a particular title are lists of people in a category, and a category establishes a common noun, not a proper noun, and thus should be lowercased. We have things like List of presidents of the United States and List of kings of Babylon. If the plural POTUSs do not get uppercase, honorary fellows shouldn't either. Please note that the titles of honor in these titles are all plural. I sorted these approximately alphabetically except grouping the Cambridge and Oxford topics separately and putting the four unusual ones at the end. Please notice the lowercasing of "The" for "The Queen's College, Oxford" per MOS:THEINST: "The word the at the start of a name is uncapitalized, regardless of the institution's own usage." I have suggested inserting "the" before Indonesian Marine Corps. I have also suggested using "List of" for the Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry article. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 06:27, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support all per nom and MOS:JOBTITLES. Dicklyon (talk) 08:15, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support all. Bduke (talk) 08:35, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support all per nom. Gazamp (talk) 13:26, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support to be WP:CONSISTENT with all other such articles (other than the few in another simultaneous RM). Additional rationales: MOS:JOBTITLES, MOS:HONORIFICS (depending on how you want to view these things, either as roles or as hono[u]rs), and MOS:CAPS / WP:NCCAPS. These things are typically capitalized when directly appended in singular to someone's name (though more often abbreviated as postnominal acronmyms/intialisms), but when pluralized this way, or otherwise used as generic classifiers/categorizers, they are common-noun phrases by defintion, so not capitalized.  — SMcCandlish ¢ 😼  10:34, 20 March 2024 (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.