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On 22 July 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved from PROV (Provenance) to PROV. The result of the discussion was moved to W3C Prov.

Requested move 22 July 2025

Latest comment: 10 months ago10 comments7 people in discussion

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. There was widespread support for moving the page to W3C Prov rather than the originally proposed PROV (PROV does not appear to be an acronym, so it is not capitalized). (closed by non-admin page mover) ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 01:45, 6 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

PROV (Provenance) → PROV – Brackets after article names are generally used to indicate a generic class, subject or context, or an adjective (see WP:NCDAB). In this case, "Provenance" is used as an expansion of PROV, which would be unusual (we don't have an article titled AI (Artificial Intelligence)), and in any case I can't find any evidence that PROV is intended to be an abbreviation of Provenance. I also don't think it needs one, the brackets make it difficult to link to this article ( from other articles, and the only other article on the PROV disambiguation page is Public Record Office Victoria. I propose renaming this article to PROV, and adding a hatnote to Public Record Office Victoria. Gaurav (talk) 22:45, 22 July 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 21:18, 29 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Support getting rid of (Provenance) from the title, no opinion on the disambiguation rename. I would like to say that "prov" could also mean Providence University College and Theological Seminary, a university in Manitoba, as its website is prov.ca. (or province, I guess) Justjourney (talk | contribs) 23:30, 26 July 2025 (UTC) edited 22:33, 26 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
Comment: I dislike the all-caps, per WP:TITLETM, MOS:ALLCAPS, MOS:TM. It seems promotional rather than an initialism, like Invader ZIM, TIME, KISS, ASUS, SONY and REALTOR. The article seems to cite no independent sources. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 17:47, 27 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Support rename to W3C PROVW3C PROV. Although I dislike the all-caps styling, it seems to be used consistently in sources. In a web search, I do see some sources calling it "W3C PROV". —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 14:47, 29 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Support renaming to alternate perhaps ~~Provenance (comptuer science)~~ - it appears that PROV is simply a stylized short-name for what is actually regarding Provenance documents. TiggerJay (talk) 05:19, 29 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
This is an article about a specific technology developed by W3C, not about the general topic of provenance in computer science. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 05:32, 29 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
I would support W3C Prov as another alternative, as I cannot find any good policy based perspective to rationalize the use of all caps when it doesn't fit any of the typical criteria, regardless of how commonplace the all caps is used. TiggerJay (talk) 04:40, 30 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
rename to W3C PROV or W3C Prov if it doesn't fit ACRONYMTITLE. -- 65.93.183.181 (talk) 13:47, 29 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
Oppose changing the DAB. No primary topic and it's a good DAB. Agree that PROV (Provenance)PROV (Provenance) is an unsatisfactory name and should be changed, it's a good topic but the current title is not even remotely recognisable. Andrewa (talk) 00:18, 6 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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