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Bastard1 Cobwebbed and Strange from The Weak and the Wounded Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Norwegian Wood
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#1: Jul 10th 2014 at 8:18:08 PM

So, wot's, uhh, the deal with people intentionally changing perfectly cromulent album title sections into a capitalization stickler's worst nightmare? Is there a good reason or what?

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#2: Jul 10th 2014 at 8:21:51 PM

Could you possibly be more specific? Like a link to an article or something?

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#3: Jul 11th 2014 at 2:25:29 AM

I've looked through their most recent edits and didn't find anything clear. ~Bastard1, please come here and identify the problem pages to us.

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Bastard1 Cobwebbed and Strange from The Weak and the Wounded Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Norwegian Wood
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#4: Jul 11th 2014 at 7:13:33 AM

Right, well, since it seemed to be the rule rather than the exception I just assumed no such examples were needed. The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Who, etc.

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#5: Jul 11th 2014 at 7:15:40 AM

Still not getting it.

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
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#6: Jul 11th 2014 at 7:21:55 AM

I'm not seeing a problem with the capitalization of the discographies, either.

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#7: Jul 11th 2014 at 7:23:11 AM

Especially since from what I've looked at online in terms of capitalization of song and album titles it's both consistent with TV Tropes policy and common practice.

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AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
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#8: Jul 11th 2014 at 8:50:20 AM

You mean stuff like "With The Beatles" rather than "With the Beatles"?

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Bastard1 Cobwebbed and Strange from The Weak and the Wounded Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Norwegian Wood
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#9: Jul 11th 2014 at 9:34:27 AM

Haha, well actually, With The Beatles is one of the ones people got right in my opinion... except Wikipedia of course, but those guys aren't exactly Logic's best friends. Anyway, throughout all my years of contributing throughout various music databases, fully capitalizing every word of capitalizing album titles like "Shotgun Sale at the Local S-Smart" or "Holy Cripes on Toast" isn't something that's really done. To give some credit to that other smelly wiki, at least they got this thing right.

Anyway, I'm not here to debate the rules or anything, I just wanna know what, if at all existent, the logic behind doing such a disservice to the written English language is.

edited 11th Jul '14 9:34:50 AM by Bastard1

m8e from Sweden Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#10: Jul 11th 2014 at 11:24:21 AM

Personaly, I think we should ignore the english rules and just use the album names "as is", or at least as close as possible. If an album was released as alBUM TITle it should also be listed like that, and not Album title or Album Title.

edited 11th Jul '14 12:38:51 PM by m8e

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#11: Jul 11th 2014 at 11:54:04 AM

[up][up] "A disservice to the English language"? Hyperbole, much? Capitalization is not such Serious Business, at least not here, in this situation.

edited 11th Jul '14 11:54:25 AM by Fighteer

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