Talk:Sysco/Archives/2012

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Partial Acronyms as Registered Trademarks -- Manual of Style

Please see Manual of Style (trademarks)discussion regarding issues such as GETRAG, SAAB, and SYSCO, which are capitalized registered acronym trademarks, but are not strict acronyms. Nicholas SL Smith (talk) 03:00, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the proposal was move. JPG-GR (talk) 16:29, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

SYSCO → Sysco — comply with Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trademarks) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names) —Fatsamsgrandslam (talk) 14:53, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Survey

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Support per WP:MOSTM: "Follow standard English text formatting and capitalization rules even if the trademark owner considers nonstandard formatting 'official'." — AjaxSmack 06:36, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Support per nom. Tigeron (talk) 22:51, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Oppose Common usage dictates all capitalization Nicholas SL Smith^chatter 02:02, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

Examples of "Getrag" in external sources:

Forbes: [1], [2], [3], [4]
Businessweek: [5], [6], [7], [8]
New York Times: [9], [10], [11], [12]
Twice on official site at Sysco.com: in title bar, and on side bar under "The Sysco Story"

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New Logo

http://www.sysco.com/images/header/logo.gif —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.88.145 (talk) 20:09, 12 December 2008 (UTC)