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Over-capitalization

Having become used to Wikipedia's minimal capitalization style I find reading this article more difficult due to the number of capitalized terms. Is it necessary? Does "Thinking Process" mean something different than "thinking process"? If capitalization of "Theory of Constraints" is a shorthand way to distinguish the Goldratt's concept from other theories of constraints, which other theories are there? If it were called "Goldratt's theory of constraints" we wouldn't capitalize anything but Goldratt.

I also suspect that editors here have fallen into the habit of capitalizing terms that have acronyms like DBR. That's not Wikipedia style. Jojalozzo 20:25, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The terms like "Thinking Process" and "Drum Buffer Rope" and "Critical Chain Project Management" and "Throughput Accounting" all reference specific terminology and techniques from the TOC body of knowledge. The community that uses these terms traditionally capitalizes them in this way. Isn't that what Wikipedia should respect?

I don't believe TOC is known as "Goldratt's Theory of Constraints" in the general body of literature - he is just known as the first person to articulate it (and one of its heaviest promoters).

Jackvinson (talk) 22:48, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

History lead paragraph

This needs clarification. It currently states that TOC was introduced by Goldratt in 1984, adopted by him in 1997 and extended to itself in 1999. I suspect that some vital piece of information is missing. Trevithj (talk) 09:21, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]