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Nomenclature complaints

This is probably a minor issue, but there cannot by definition be a "trojan virus." A trojan is its own host and does not infect files; a virus infects files and requires a host. This should be fixed, but I'm not sure whether that is possible without breaking links to the page. --Trafton 04:44, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Move to AIDS (Trojan horse)

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The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 07:20, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

– I believe the usual practice in English is to capitalize adjectives derived from proper names. For example, French fries, Chinese cabbage or Parisian stitch would look odd with a lowercase adjective. "Trojan", being derived from the proper noun Troy, should similarly be capitalized here. Jafeluv (talk) 12:31, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Weak oppose I think lowercase forms can gradually become more prevalent in such cases. Some examples include china. The capitalization is certainly misleading, suggesting a connection between a computer virus and a city from antiquity. Your examples, however, all have actual connections to the place in question (well, the Parisian stitch page doesn't really say anything either way). I'm coming up light on sources, though, so I'll keep this weak. --BDD (talk) 16:31, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Though BDD's general observation is correct, Google Book search for "Trojan horse attack" (which is the general concept underlying the articles listed) shows an overwhelming preference for a capital "T". Favonian (talk) 18:19, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose It is a "trojan horse" and "french fries", not "French fries". Further "trojan horse" is derived from "Trojan horse", and is not an adjective attached to horse. 70.24.251.208 (talk) 05:31, 15 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Can you provide any evidence of this? ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 16:39, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support—Per Favonian, this seems to be capitalized more often in sources. See this ngram. We capitalize it at Trojan horse (computing), too; why not at least be consistent? ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 16:39, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support per a search like this one which shows through reliable sources that Trojan horse, quite unlike french fries, vienna sausage, brussels sprouts and the like, has not become so ubiquitous that it has lost is proper noun capitalization association.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 05:33, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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