- 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) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 16:45, 4 September 2025 (UTC)
Yugoslav Partisans → Yugoslav partisansYugoslav partisans – per WP:MOSCAPS and the previous comment at Talk:Yugoslav Partisans/Archive 6#Lowercase? from more than a year ago, to which there was no reply. (It was just auto-archived today, reminding me of that comment.) Per Google Ngrams, lowercase appears to have been about twice as common as uppercase in the last 70 years. As far as I can tell, this is not the proper name of a specific organization, but rather a partisan movement that included various different named organizations. See also MOS:MOVEMENT. In cases where usage is mixed, Wikipedia prefers lowercase. — BarrelProof (talk) 17:52, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose: I favor capitalization for "Yugoslav Partisans" because the term is generally understood not to encompass any guerrilla band operating within enemy lines in Yugoslavia, but to exclusively refer to the highly organized "National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia" under a single central command—that is, a specific organization. Doremo (talk) 18:16, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose per Doremo. You only have to have a cursory glance at the most common and highly respected references for this period to see that Yugoslav Partisans has initial capitals for both words, and usage is not mixed with reference to this organisation, the ngrams you are referring to obviously conflate other partisans with the Yugoslav Partisans. For a sample, look at Tomasevich, Hoare, Milazzo, Roberts, Pavlowitch, Ramet etc etc. It was one movement, led by Tito, and the full name (for most of its existence) was that quoted by Doremo. The common name used in reliable sources, is without a doubt "Yugoslav Partisans", exactly as capitalised currently in the article title. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 23:51, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose per above. It is a singular movement/faction. Srnec (talk) 00:03, 2 September 2025 (UTC)
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