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Requested move 10 September 2020
- 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: Not Moved(closed by non-admin page mover) Megan☺️ Talk to the monster 10:47, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
CNET → CNet – Per MOS:CAPS; the name is a shortening, rather than an initialism or acronym, of the former name. It is pronounced as "C-net" rather than "C-N-E-T". IceWelder [✉] 10:16, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
- This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:04, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
- @IceWelder, Ahecht, and Lugnuts: queried move request Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:06, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
- A majority of reliable sources use "CNET", not "CNet" (as does https://www.cnet.com/about/). I also couldn't find any sources that the name is a shortening of Computer Network. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 13:34, 10 September 2020 (UTC)- Hm, odd. The name was introduced here by @WurmWoode more than a year ago and never contested. Maybe they could weigh in here? If the name is indeed incorrect, I will withdraw the request. IceWelder [✉] 14:04, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
- I just added the missing cite— readily available to anyone who had cared to look up the history. WurmWoodeT 04:45, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
- There was a move discussion a few years ago too. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 19:23, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
- Hm, odd. The name was introduced here by @WurmWoode more than a year ago and never contested. Maybe they could weigh in here? If the name is indeed incorrect, I will withdraw the request. IceWelder [✉] 14:04, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose Per MOS:CAPS, which directs us to follow reliable sourcing when it clearly and overwhelmingly uses a title style, as is the case here.--Yaksar (let's chat) 22:51, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose, basically per what I said in 2016. "CNet" is too much of a Wikipedia invention. Nohomersryan (talk) 01:14, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose. We don't invent names. -- Calidum 03:54, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose per all the above. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:53, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
- Neutral. Style or not, they co-opted the term, sort of?? Disambiguation?? What about the elephant in the room? Historically, CNET is the precedent standard abbreviation/shortening of Computer Network => Computer Net => C\NET => CNET, yes, fully capitalized. If anyone would care to Google any (now) ancient tech magazines and books, and even through to this day’s current college courses and media. WurmWoodeT 04:45, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose the site itself uses CNET blindlynx (talk) 10:45, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
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