On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 at 22:16, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I agree, there are some more examples like IBM and BP. The capitalization > of the _name_ should be like it is used (and likely registered). I was hoping (with no expectation of success) that nobody would open the BP can of worms. The company was "British Petroleum plc" but that was its formal name and it was generally referred to as "BP." In 2001 it went through a renaming exercise and now trades as "BP plc." Prior to 2001 "BP" would have been an initialism and we might legitimately have used "British Petroleum" for the name and "BP" for the short_name. Now BP is the full name, and it is no longer an initialism. But "Bp" looks silly. However, on their greenburst logo, they use "bp" (which also looks silly as a name on a map). I haven't checked what iD tries to force on us, but I'd go with BP. BP isn't the only company to adopt an initialism as its name. British Technology Group renamed itself to BTG. However, BTG was recently acquired by Boston Scientific, who seem to be dispensing with BTG as a trading name. > I also agree with Frederik though, if we feel the orthography of their > name is particularly designed to game lists or maps, like “the BEST foo” we > can individually make exceptions and must not slavishly adhere to their > marketing. > As with everything, it comes down to judgement. We can't hope to produce rules that can cope with every possible eventuality, just general guides that may sometimes have to be interpreted. -- Paul
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