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Requested move 22 July 2025

It has been proposed in this section that PROV (Provenance) be renamed and moved to PROV.

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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 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]