Talk:Foreign affiliate trade statistics

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This doesn't really mean anything, and I think it should be deleted. A google search shows nothing on the subject.--Betterone 16:47, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An article from Statistics Canada, found by typing "Foreign Affiliate Trade Statistics" into Google, indicates that Foreign Affiliate Trade Statistics is an internationally recognized term. It's specialized and we could use a good international trade statistician to work on the article and make it more comprehensible - but I think that shows a need for the article rather than a reason to delete. -- Siobhan Hansa 17:03, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Remember, Google is not the only source worth considering. Accurately documentng foreign-affiliated trade is actually one of the most important topics in international trade, particularly in the battle against protectionism. DOR (HK) (talk) 04:08, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the move request was: moved to Foreign affiliate trade statistics. Favonian (talk) 21:42, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As it says, "Collection of such information, and aggregation at the national level, can provide economists and policymakers with insight as to the relationship that transnational corporations, being FDI-related enterprises, have on economies." Per WP:MOSCAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and WP:TITLE, this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. In addition, WP:MOSCAPS says that a compound item should not be upper-cased just because it is abbreviated with caps. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles. $Tony (talk)$ 10:09, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

PS I stuffed this one up: requested new title is "Foreign affiliate trade statistics".

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10:11, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support but think you can probably just WP:MOVE most of these. In ictu oculi (talk) 13:00, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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