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Regarding the second half of the first sentence of this article: ¨is a type of alternative therapy based on the idea that poor posture gives rise to a range of health problems.¨
I believe I can safely say that no Alexander technique teacher would agree with this statement. Typically it is not referred to as a therapy, the use of the word posture will mislead the reader, and AT is not focussed on relieving specific health problems but rather on changing global habits.
What about this sentence: ¨The Alexander Technique (AT) is an approach to changing habits of postural support, muscle tension, movement, attention, and reactivity.¨ ( https://alexandertechniquescience.com/general-at/what-is-alexander-technique/ ) 213.93.108.91 (talk) 07:19, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This has been discussed ad nauseam; see this Talk page and its archives. As a 'real world' check I look online at what AT vendors are offering and straight away see it being touted for asthma,[1] Looks to me like a classic Motte and bailey fallacy is in play. When challenged, AT vendors are like 'me!? medical!? oh no!" but left to their own devices they are happy to advertise with medical claims. Bon courage (talk) 07:42, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I see that some editors disagree about whether the pagename should be spelled with "Technique" capitalized, or lower case. I don't feel strongly, but I lean towards thinking lower case looks more natural. I'd like to discuss this. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:30, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I've been thinking about this, and I have some follow-up thoughts. The relevant policies and guidelines are MOS:AT, WP:NCCAPS, and WP:LOWERCASE. They all say that lowercase should be used, except, as you say, it is a proper noun. I agree with you that common use is the appropriate way to assess that, but it also occurs to me that overall statistics do not distinguish between sources that are promoting AT, and those that are criticizing it or evaluating it in a scholarly way. And given the POV issues that can arise with a fringe-y topic like this, not all search hits are the same. I looked for some sources that are scholarly evaluations: [2], [3], or health agency evaluations: [4]. Those source use lower case for "technique". That's far from a statistical analysis, and I make no claim that it negates what you have shown about common use. Maybe the overall common-use trend that you describe really is the right way to go, but I want to consider the possibility that the capitalization is something that was created as a way to puff up the importance of AT, as opposed to a true proper name, as recognized by independent and neutral sources. Looking at pages that use "technique" in the pagename: [5], and pages in categories about health practice techniques, it's uncommon to treat this word as part of a proper name. --Tryptofish (talk) 15:10, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
