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== Is Program Evaluation and Review Technique a proper name? ==

I think "program evaluation and review technique" is a common name not a proper name and therefore should not be capitalized. I know it is accepted practice in the industry to capitalize terms especially when they are normally identified by acronym but in Wikipedia capitalization is used only for proper names. [[User:Jojalozzo|<fontspan colorstyle="color:#500000;">Joja</span>]][[User talk:Jojalozzo|Joja]]</font><fontspan colorstyle="color:#005000;">[[User talk:Jojalozzo|lozzo]]</fontspan>]] 15:56, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

:It is clear from the "historical" piece I have just added that "Program Evaluation and Review Technique
Technique " is a '''tool''', and therefore, a noun, rather than "an approach", and therefore a verb. And, moreover, it is not a "common name"; it is a very specific "proper noun". Therefore it should remain capitalized. The point being, I suppose, no matter how many people habitually call [[American bison|Bison bison]] "buffalo", the animals continue to remain bison.[[User:Lindsay658|Lindsay658]] ([[User talk:Lindsay658|talk]]) 23:21, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

::PERT is a technique, method or approach. A PERT chart is a tool. Whether we use the name bison or buffalo we do not capitalize it. None of this is convincing me that ''program evaluation and review technique'' is a proper name. [[User:Jojalozzo|<fontspan colorstyle="color:#500000;">Joja</span>]][[User talk:Jojalozzo|Joja]]</font><fontspan colorstyle="color:#005000;">[[User talk:Jojalozzo|lozzo]]</fontspan>]] 02:45, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

::Also, Program Evaluation and Review Technique is capitalized in a reference to it in [http://www.google.com/patents?id=krNpAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false U.S. patent no.3124885].[[User:Lindsay658|Lindsay658]] ([[User talk:Lindsay658|talk]]) 23:43, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

:::Wikipedia capitalization is governed by its own rules: summed up as "[[WP:MOSCAPS|avoid unnecessary capitalization]]". Usage in patents or in the industry does not change this. [[User:Jojalozzo|<fontspan colorstyle="color:#500000;">Joja</span>]][[User talk:Jojalozzo|Joja]]</font><fontspan colorstyle="color:#005000;">[[User talk:Jojalozzo|lozzo]]</fontspan>]] 02:45, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

I started a discussion of the general topic of naming ideas in engineering at the [[WP:VPP#When are names for technical methods and systems proper names and when are they not?|Village pump]]. [[User:Jojalozzo|<fontspan colorstyle="color:#500000;">Joja</span>]][[User talk:Jojalozzo|Joja]]</font><fontspan colorstyle="color:#005000;">[[User talk:Jojalozzo|lozzo]]</fontspan>]] 16:14, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

== Removing bad characters from the block quote ==