Issue 17807: Inconsistent use of (s) (uml25-ftf)
Source: Oracle (Mr. Dave Hawkins, dave.hawkins(at)oracle.com)
Nature: Revision
Severity: Minor
Summary: Sometimes a property with upper bound > 1 is referred to as having "Elements", for example, and sometimes "Element(s)". Dependency::client, Dependency::supplier, DirectedRelationship::source, DirectedRelationship::target all use the latter whereas ElementElement::ownedComments and Constraint::constrainedElements use the former. I'm sure there are many other examples. I think the former is better stylistically. (For what it's worth, Oracle's corporate documentation standards regard the use of parenthesized plurals as bad practice.)

Proposed Resolution:

Consistently use plurals rather than plural(s).

Resolution: 
Revised Text: 
Actions taken:
September 26, 2012: received issue
Discussion: 

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s is issue # 17807

Problem: 7.044

Severity: Minor
Nature: Revision
Location: Page 46, 7.8 Classifier Descriptions
Title: Inconsistent use of (s)
 
Summary:
 
Sometimes a property with upper bound > 1 is referred to as having "Elements", for example, and sometimes "Element(s)". Dependency::client, Dependency::supplier, DirectedRelationship::source, DirectedRelationship::target all use the latter whereas ElementElement::ownedComments and Constraint::constrainedElements use the former. I'm sure there are many other examples. I think the former is better stylistically. (For what it's worth, Oracle's corporate documentation standards regard the use of parenthesized plurals as bad practice.)
 
Proposed Resolution:
 
Consistently use plurals rather than plural(s).
 
Revised Text:
Source: dave.hawkins@oracle.com