Talk:Polygon experiment

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Did you know... that the
POLYGON experiment, conducted in the 1970s, was the first experiment to establish the existence of so-called "mesoscale eddies", giving rise to the "mesoscale revolution" in oceanography?

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On 26 November 2021, it was proposed that this article be moved from POLYGON experiment to Polygon experiment. The result of the discussion was moved.

Requested move 26 November 2021

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) VR _talk 16:28, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

POLYGON experiment → Polygon experiment – The all-caps isn't used in the Physics Today cited source, and there is no clear justification for it. It also doesn't appear to be all-capped in the Kort & Samoĭlenko cited source and is not consistently all-capped in the Kuh Kim Ph.D. thesis. The proposed target name already redirects to the same topic, and has ever since it and the article were created more than ten years ago. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 06:33, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply

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Support: POLYGON, MODE and POLYMODE are rendered as such in the Munk&Day. MODE is an acronym and this appears to be an editorial decision based on how to render "polymode", which is a combination of the former two. It is not rendered in all caps in Physics Today and all caps would be contrary to
WP:TITLETM for a quite similar case). It also raises the question of how "polygon" should be capitalised in running text, and the correct capitalisation for the related terms that are red-linked ATM. Cinderella157 (talk) 07:28, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply
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Support – No need for such shouting, when sources get away with a more normal style (like ours). Dicklyon (talk) 23:51, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Not an acronym so no need to cap. Primergrey (talk) 18:51, 29 November 2021 (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.