[Talk-GB] Best One vs Best-One vs best-one vs Best-one convenience shop

[Edward Catmur]

Wikidata (and Wikipedia) use "Best-One" :
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4896532

I would favour "Best-one", though, as that's the company name.

On Sun, 5 May 2019, 17:46 Mateusz Konieczny, <matkoniecz at tutanota.com>
wrote:

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> 5 May 2019, 18:25 by sk53.osm at gmail.com:
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> I think Rob is right here:
>
> My view on these cases is to use the name as the company uses in their own
> written context rather than any stylisation on the store sign. Their
> website uses "Best-one" so that's what I'd pick.
>
> Regards,
> Rob
>
>
> Toys-R-Us at one stage was mapped with the relevant Unicode character for
> a backwards "R", so slavish copying of the trade dress (i.e., best-one, in
> this case) is not likely to be a good idea. Similarly former (and IIRC
> still about) trade dress for various Co-op brands was "the Co-operative
> Xxxx". I think agreeing a convention for names which are capitalised
> unconventionally would help in these cases.
>
> It is clear that Best-one use a hyphen so the most popular option is the
> least correct. Although I've used "Best-One" in the past it looks rather
> clunky, and is an odd form of capitalisation. "best-one" fits the trade
> dress, but this will likely change as they do, so a more conventionally
> capitalised "Best-one". I note The Grocer, a trade magazine, which must
> wrestle with this sort of style problem all the time, uses "Best-one":
> https://www.thegrocergoldawards.co.uk/grocer-gold-finalists/.
>
> Normalized to Best-one in
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> https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/commit/4b779e42839a6aedb572647923fb42897ffff194
>
> I hoped that it will be preferred name, but I wanted to confirm as it was
> the least used one.
>
> (Note, for now it will not appear in iD and Vespucci as
> there is no Wikipedia/Wikidata entry and name-suggestion-index
> unfortunately requires it
> to include it in the list of distributed names)
>
> PS. For Rob: you can reply using nabble in conjunction with a subscription
> to the mailing list without receiving messages by default. Richard
> Fairhurst does this.
>
> I use a separate mail account just for receiving ml.
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