Talk:Synchronous dynamic random-access memory: Difference between revisions

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*'''Oppose all''' - I see no improvement at all and the DDR/GDDR moves are complete nonsense. --[[User:Denniss|Denniss]] ([[User talk:Denniss|talk]]) 11:43, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

*'''Support first, oppose others''' in case that wasn't clear after my comment was deposited below. [[User:Dekimasu|Dekimasu]]<small>[[User talk:Dekimasu|よ!]]</small> 22:56, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

* '''Oppose''' A slightly longer, more formal name is fine, as long as it doesn't make people ''not'' recognize the subject. [[National Football League]], [[International Olympic Committee]], [[Random-access memory]] and the like are all far more commonly referred to by their initialisms, but the article titles are the full names for, IMHO, good reason. Particularly with a three-letter initialism like "DDR" (which is also used for the video game [[Dance Dance Revolution]]), a redirect to a longer title is preferred. (At ''four'' letters, it becomes more debatable, c.f. [[NASA]], although I would prefer the longer name as an article title.) If you look, all of the examples in [[WP:COMMONNAME]] illustrate cases where the most formal name is different enough from the common name that a reader might think they've arrived in the wrong place. A title that's simply more specific doesn't have this problem. [[Special:Contributions/209.209.238.149|209.209.238.149]] ([[User talk:209.209.238.149|talk]]) 04:16, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

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