Talk:Alborz province#Requested move 24 January 2022

: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 all  — Amakuru (talk) 13:40, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

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• :Alborz Province → {{no redirect|Alborz province}}
• :Ardabil Province → {{no redirect|Ardabil province}}
• :Bushehr Province → {{no redirect|Bushehr province}}
• :Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province → {{no redirect|Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province}}
• :East Azerbaijan Province → {{no redirect|East Azerbaijan province}}
• :Fars Province → {{no redirect|Fars province}}
• :Gilan Province → {{no redirect|Gilan province}}
• :Golestan Province → {{no redirect|Golestan province}}
• :Hamadan Province → {{no redirect|Hamadan province}}
• :Hormozgan Province → {{no redirect|Hormozgan province}}
• :Ilam Province → {{no redirect|Ilam province}}
• :Isfahan Province → {{no redirect|Isfahan province}}
• :Kerman Province → {{no redirect|Kerman province}}
• :Kermanshah Province → {{no redirect|Kermanshah province}}
• :Khuzestan Province → {{no redirect|Khuzestan province}}
• :Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province → {{no redirect|Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province}}
• :Kurdistan Province → {{no redirect|Kurdistan province}}
• :Lorestan Province → {{no redirect|Lorestan province}}
• :Markazi Province → {{no redirect|Markazi province}}
• :Mazandaran Province → {{no redirect|Mazandaran province}}
• :North Khorasan Province → {{no redirect|North Khorasan province}}
• :Qazvin Province → {{no redirect|Qazvin province}}
• :Qom Province → {{no redirect|Qom province}}
• :Razavi Khorasan Province → {{no redirect|Razavi Khorasan province}}
• :Semnan Province → {{no redirect|Semnan province}}
• :Sistan and Baluchestan Province → {{no redirect|Sistan and Baluchestan province}}
• :South Khorasan Province → {{no redirect|South Khorasan province}}
• :Tehran Province → {{no redirect|Tehran province}}
• :West Azerbaijan Province → {{no redirect|West Azerbaijan province}}
• :Yazd Province → {{no redirect|Yazd province}}
• :Zanjan Province → {{no redirect|Zanjan province}}
• :Bahrain Province → {{no redirect|Bahrain province}}
• :Khorasan Province → {{no redirect|Khorasan province}}
• :Gerrus (province) → {{no redirect|Gerrus province}}
• :Joshekan → {{no redirect|Joshekan province}}

– Proposing downcasing for consistency with article titles for provinces in other countries, as recently done for Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. See recent discussions at Talk:An Giang Province#Requested move 7 November 2021, Talk:Amnat Charoen Province#Requested move 2 December 2021, Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/China- and Chinese-related articles#Chinese placenames, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Southeast Asia#Downcasing "Province". The first 31 are current provinces and the last four are historical provinces. Please note that the last two are currently titled a bit differently from the others. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 18:56, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

• Support It is not necessary to be consistent with other countries since the considerations for each country might vary. However, there is nonetheless a good case to be made for the proposed moves. I have taken a random sample of the subject articles: [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Bushehr+Province&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&case_insensitive=on&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t4%3B%2CBushehr%20Province%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BBushehr%20Province%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BBushehr%20province%3B%2Cc0 Bushehr Province], [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Kermanshah+Province&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&case_insensitive=on&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t4%3B%2CKermanshah%20Province%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BKermanshah%20province%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BKermanshah%20Province%3B%2Cc0 Kermanshah Province], [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Mazandaran+Province&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&case_insensitive=on&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t4%3B%2CMazandaran%20Province%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BMazandaran%20Province%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BMazandaran%20province%3B%2Cc0 Mazandaran Province], [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Semnan+Province&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&case_insensitive=on&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t4%3B%2CSemnan%20Province%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BSemnan%20Province%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BSemnan%20province%3B%2Cc0 Semnan Province] and [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Bahrain+Province&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&case_insensitive=on&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url= Bahrain Province] (Ngrams not found: Bahrain Province). The n-gram data consistently shows that the sample article titles do not meet the threshold per MOS:CAPS to cap "province". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cinderella157 (talk • contribs) 01:00, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

:support welcome change bi (talk) 13:58, 27 January 2022 (UTC)