# Talk:Source–message–channel–receiver model of communication

Hello Shushugah. I saw that you changed the GA subtopic to "Computing and engineering". Models of communication belong to communication science, which is usually seen as a social science. The SMCR model is mainly concerned with human communication and discusses, for example, how the communication skills and attitudes of the communicators affect the exchange as well as the sensory channels they use to perceive the message. In this process, no computer or other devices have to be involved. I think the category "Culture, sociology and psychology" is the best fit here. I would go and change it back unless there is something I have overlooked. Phlsph7 (talk) 16:32, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

@Phlsph7: I came across this article while copyediting for DYK, and was wondering whether there's a good reason to keep the SMCR words capitalized, both in the title and the article body. They're all common nouns, so we don't have to keep them capitalized throughout even if they form an initialism, and sentence case is to be preferred. Unless it's plainly wrong to lowercase them I think we should do so – just wanted to get your input. (Also, the hyphens in the name should definitely be en dashes according to MOS:ENBETWEEN.) — RAVENPVFF · talk · 16:51, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Hello Ravenpuff and thanks for pointing this out. You are probably right about the hyphen vs en dash issue. Regarding the case: the uppercase spelling is standard in the academic literature, both for the full name of the model and for the shortcut. Lowercase is used when the terms appear individually in sentences. See, for example, "Straubhaar, LaRose & Davenport 2015, pp. 18–19", "Agunga 2006, p. 381", "Gibson 2013, p. 140", and "Pande 2020, pp. 1588–1589, SMCR Model". I would suggest that we follow their lead. Phlsph7 (talk) 20:47, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
@Phlsph7: Thanks for the information – the literature was indeed what I wasn't sure about. I've moved the article to use en dashes and done likewise in the body text. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 19:28, 10 August 2023 (UTC)