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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was No consensus to move. Timrollpickering (talk) 15:35, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian trademark lawCanadian trade-mark law – In Canadian law, the term that is used is usually either "trade-mark" or "trade mark". The federal law in Canada is the Trade-marks Act. Most Canadian law dictionaries also use "trade-mark". However, "trademark" is also used in Canada in newspapers and magazines, for example. In my opinion this is non-controversial, but really I don't know for sure if it will be. relisted --Mike Cline (talk) 01:50, 26 December 2011 (UTC) Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:47, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose. It is trademark law no matter what precise form is used in the country in question. In this international anglophone encyclopedia we would not use "védjegy" in the title of an article on Hungarian trademark law. Adapting to such an unstable and variable usage in Canada is to take WP:ENGVAR too far. Trademarks are a matter of international interest and registration. If the "official" form of the word used in statutes is hyphenated in an old-fashioned way, that is not a primary consideration for us. Note ngrams for "trademark,trade - mark" (that's how you do hyphens in ngrams). "Trademark" is internationally dominant by far, and getting more dominant. NoeticaTea? 00:38, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
O, of course I acknowledge that. I was just setting up a wide limit, within which to view something more narrow. NoeticaTea? 04:15, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I see. That sentence has the effect of reading a bit like a straw-man argument, since it's really a type of WP:ENGVAR issue, not an issue of whether to use foreign languages in category names. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:37, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.