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On 12 June 2021, it was proposed that this article be moved from GCE Advanced Level to A-Level. The result of the discussion was moved.

On 13 May 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved to A level. The result of the discussion was moved to A-level.

Change page name from A-Level to A Level.

Based on the more authoritative sources in this article (government websites, exam boards, etc.), the term 'A Level' should not be hyphenated. I have tried to move the page myself but have been unsuccessful, can anyone help me with this? PentagonPizza (talk) 16:49, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 13 May 2023

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 to A-level. (closed by non-admin page mover) CLYDE ^{TALK TO ME}/_{STUFF DONE} (please mention me on reply) 00:33, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A-Level → A level – Removing the hyphen per common usage and moving to sentence case.

The spelling with no hyphen and a lowercase "L" is used by dictionary.com, the Cambridge Dictionary, Merriam Webster, the Collins English Dictionary, the Macmillan Dictionary, and the Britannica Dictionary. The spelling with the hyphen and a lowercase "L" is used only by the The Oxford English Dictionary). :3 F4U (they /it) 19:12, 13 May 2023 (UTC)— Relisting. >>> Extorc.talk 18:15, 19 May 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. CLYDE ^{TALK TO ME}/_{STUFF DONE} (please mention me on reply) 23:09, 26 May 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 23:57, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per MOS:RETAIN and WP:ENGVAR. --112.204.206.165 (talk) 04:28, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
How is this a matter of WP:ENGVAR? The article title isn't in sentence case, which is already an issue, and there's no evidence to suggest that the proposed title is a matter of national English variants. :3 F4U (they /it) 21:22, 22 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
See discussion below from Walt Yoder. 112.204.206.165 (talk) 03:16, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I have no idea how ENGVAR comes into play. Americans rarely talk about A-levels at all, and I don't claim to know if other non-UK countries capitalize it differently. Walt Yoder (talk) 16:43, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I think it should match the article title for O-Levels, GCE Ordinary Level; so this should be called GCE Advanced Level -- 64.229.90.172 (talk) 06:32, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the proposed title scans as if it is referring to "a level" in a video game. From Google search results, there seems to be a wide spread of usage, with A-level and A Level the most common. Walt Yoder (talk) 03:12, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I actually do understand the potential for confusion with a "level". Maybe "A-level" is the best title here then, since that would put it in sentence case and minimize potential for confusion. :3 F4U (they /it) 22:28, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Move to A-level per above. The "level" part is not generally capitalised in sources: [1] — Amakuru (talk) 13:17, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There's a lot of previous discussions in Talk:A-Level/Archive 1 for moving this article title. 112.204.197.139 (talk) 09:48, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisting comment: GCE Advanced Level or A-level? CLYDE ^{TALK TO ME}/_{STUFF DONE} (please mention me on reply) 23:09, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisting comment: Still unclear on consensus here. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 23:57, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support A-level per common usage. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:27, 6 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The OED says it is A level. Martin Tauchman (talk) 15:19, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps, but an ngram assessing all the options suggests that A-level is by some distance yhe most common across all books.[2] — Amakuru (talk) 17:46, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Also in King's School. Canterbury: [3] they uses "A-Level". 112.198.121.177 (talk) 11:14, 9 June 2023 (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.

TYPO or small mistake in the Nepal sub-section

The last sentence in the A-level#Nepal sub-section begins with

In Nepali, students generally appear [...]

which is not correct. As shown by the quote

"People who live in Nepal, we call them Nepali,"

from https://www.sbs.com.au/language/nepali/en/article/youve-been-getting-our-name-wrong-says-nepals-foreign-minister/pp6bznae5 (Disclosure: that quote -- and that web page -- were both found via the S.R.P. ["search results page"] https://www.google.com/search?q=%2BNepali%2C+Nepal under "People also ask:" / "What do you call a person from Nepal?"), it is clear that either [a] the final letter of the word "Nepali" should be deleted, or else [b] the first word ("In") of that sentence, and the first comma of that sentence, should both be deleted.

I do not care which solution is chosen, but clearly the current version is not correct.

Any comments? Mike Schwartz (talk) 04:58, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed it. I chose solution [b].

The DIFF can be seen at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A-level&diff=1225027248&oldid=1220988438

Resolved

– case closed

Any comments? --Mike Schwartz (talk) 22:18, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]