Talk:Manga (band)

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 02:42, 18 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *'''Support''' or *'''Oppose''', then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.

• oppose
  MOS:TM playful capitalization. Though a redirect should be created there (and another for the album) 65.94.47.63 (talk) 05:23, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply
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• oppose per 65.94.47.63. I'm glad someone found the TLA I was looking for.—Kww(talk) 05:42, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose; we use normal capitalization, not fancy vanity caps. Which is why our article is Shirley Temple. Powers ^T 20:13, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes "normal" case is used when it does not go against policy. The COMMONNAME policy clearly states that articles must be titled in a way that would be familiar to the readers of the article, and also that readers' opinions must supercede the opinions of Wikipedia editors. The readers of Shirley Temple expect normal case usage. The readers of the maNga articles, the band and the two albums, would expect the articles to reflect the uppercase central "N" in the name. Please remember that Manga, without the uppercase central "N", is a completely different entity, as found on the Manga (disambiguation) page. – Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX )  23:38, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

TIME; Kiss (band), not KISS; and Seven (film), not Se7en. You need to find a much better argument than merely referencing COMMONNAME to overturn that kind of long-established precedent. Powers ^T 00:44, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply

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Long-term guidelines are important, yes, however they represent the opinions/consensus of editors of Wikipedia. Policy, on the other hand, may represent community consensus, or it may represent the leaders of the Wikimedia Foundation stepping in to reflect their opinions, or maybe court decisions, or just their attorneys' recommendations. So policy supercedes guidelines, and while the COMMONNAME policy is not specific about things like case modifications, it is very clear about two things:

• Articles titles are to reflect the names that are familiar to the readers of the article, and
• Readers' opinions take precedence over editors' opinions.

So not only does the COMMONNAME policy supercede any guideline, no matter how longstanding, it shows us what is the right thing to do. Readers who would come to the

maNga (band)

article would, for the most part, expect to find the name of that band depicted correctly at the TOP of that article, that is, with an uppercase letter "N" in the center. And it is their opinion that supercedes any editorial opinion or guideline.

Here's one for you (I'm sure that both of us could find suitable examples to support our opinions). How about our Wikipedia article titled

The Beetles

, simply because that's the correct English spelling of the word. (Please keep in mind that case modification is just one of many ways to stylize an artist's, band's, album's or whatever's name outside "proper" English usage.)

The only time that the COMMONNAME policy should not be the governing entity is when, for technical reasons, the title cannot be correctly depicted, for example... >pcplayer, and that really is the only time. – Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX )  01:33, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We spell it "The Beatles" because that's how it's spelled. This move proposal, on the other hand, is not about spelling. "N" and "n" are the same letter; the difference between "Manga" and "maNga" is one of capitalization, not spelling. And when it comes to capitalization, we use normal capitalization, not idiosyncratic capitalization schemes. Powers ^T 02:40, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Powers, we are not just talking about case, upper and lower. We are talking about whether or not to title an article using the stylized spelling and/or format. Guidelines like the

policy, on the other hand, says YES, we must use article names that our readers are familiar with, so "maNga" and "The Beatles" and whatever other stylizations our readers are familiar with are okay and must be used. We have a clear contradiction between policy and guidelines. Please tell me which you feel should take precedence over which? – Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX )  08:24, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply

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The question may arise as to why this is all-of-a-sudden so very important, especially where the discussion is about how to format the name of a musical-artist group, a band, and two of their albums. Aside from consistency, since the albums are already formatted with the uppercase "N" in the center (that was not my doing), this is very important to me because I have made several page moves in the last few days using the

WP:COMMONNAME policy that I was using, this appears to be a discussion that has been needed for a long time. I really want to do the right thing, and I know everybody participating in this discussion feels the same. – Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX )  08:55, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply

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"Beatles" is not a "stylization"; it's an alternate spelling based on the word "beat". COMMONNAME addresses that. COMMONNAME does not address capitalization or punctuation, which we leave up to other guidelines to guide our decisions. Powers ^T 13:14, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Alternate spellings can also be considered to be stylizations, as in the case of The Beatles,

maNga (band). – Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX )  18:41, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply

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The choice to capitalize or not does not change the name of the band; it's purely a matter of house style. This is well-established, and bringing spelling into the conversation is a red herring. Powers ^T 20:05, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The choice to use uppercase or not of course does not change the name of the band, which happens to be "maNga". The choice not to capitalize, in terms of "familiarity", reduces the title to that of the cartoons and comics, or other usages of "Manga" as shown on the dab page. Readers who come to this band article expect to see the uppercase "N" in the middle of the name. Why? Because that is the way the group stylizes their name, and because that is the version of the name with which those readers are familiar. Alternate spellings are often a part of the stylization, and sometimes both spelling and case are altered, as in one of my above examples,

nrc•next. In that case it is technically possible to include the central dot, so in accord with the COMMONNAME policy, the dot is included. – Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX )  20:40, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply

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• PS. If I could make it a red dot, I would, but as far as I know, that's not technically possible.
  • We also have the technical ability to title one of our articles
    nrc•next will be changed before long. Powers ^T 12:15, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply
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    • nrc•next over the redirect. Perhaps Macy's should be reformatted. I will go back and change all the reformats I've done recently if someone tells me that guidelines supercede policy. – Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX )  00:23, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply
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• Oppose. We don't pander to bands' playful capitalization.
  WP:MOSTM is clear-cut on this. --DAJF (talk) 00:52, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply
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  • Playful? Really? If you were in a band, and you wanted to name your band in similar (but not exactly the same) fashion as the Manga cartoons and comics, and you knew that name recognition sometimes makes or breaks a band, you might just capitalize the center letter, as in maNga, and leave the first letter lowercase. Is this "playful"? or is it good business sense. I think it's the latter. The MOS is a guideline, which does not take priority over policy. Please note the COMMONNAME policy cited above, and also further down that page at
    maNga (band)
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• maNga should redirect to the disambiguation page. 65.94.47.63 (talk) 05:22, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

NOTE: there is a related discussion at

• Just to be clear, I've been involved recently with using {{DISPLAYTITLE}} to improve article titles that needed to be both italicized and lowercased (first letter). Among these were several pages that needed to be moved because of incorrect case appearance or some other format difference. Some of these were moved to new pages, some were moved over redirects with only the creation edit, and some were moved over redirects with the help of several admins, as the redirects had more than one edit. The whole idea of doing this is to title pages as their interested readers would expect them to be titled. If one of your favorite bands is maNga, and you opened Wikipedia to read their article, wouldn't you expect to find their article titled in that manner? or would you expect to see the article titled in its present fashion, which is Manga. It's easy to use {{Lowercase}} to make the title appear as manga, and yet to make the title appear as interested readers would expect it to appear, the central letter "n" should be capitalized. What brought me here to the band article was one of their albums that I recently repaired...
  maNga (album). All I did to that article with this edit was to remove the nonusable (in this instance) {{Lowercase}} and sub it with {{DISPLAYTITLE}}. The central capital "N" was already there and correctly formatted. And this is the album that maNga titled with their band's name. If you like the album and opened Wikipedia to read about it, then you would find it titled just as you would expect it to be. Should we do any less for the band itself? – Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX )  05:34, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply
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  • If you've been doing this, you should probably stop.
    MOS:ALBUM#Capitalization directs us to override the capitalization in the source and make it consistent internally.—Kww(talk) 05:42, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply
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Several editors and myself have been working from a list that was over 200 articles when I began and is now down to less than 40. The MOS:TM is a trademark guideline, whereas WP:COMMONNAME is policy and is very clear: "We do not know what terms will be used in the future, but only what is and has been in use, and will therefore be familiar to our readers (italics mine). So in the spirit of this Wikipedia policy, this page really should be moved so that the central letter "N" is uppercased. If you were a celebrity, and an encyclopedia depicted your name incorrectly, how would that make you feel? Your fans would look for you by your correct name, not by some other incorrectly spelled or formatted name. (You might even sue the encyclopedia.) Please, let's get this right. – Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX )  06:15, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the discussion where this was decided? I think the three of you have come to a conclusion that goes against long standing practice, and it probably warrants a wider discussion.—Kww(talk) 13:48, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure what you mean by "the three of you". The policy at COMMONNAME was probably the result of community consensus OR the foundation stepped in and put their foot down, I don't really know. What I do know is that the policy is clear about using article titles that readers are familiar with, and also that the readers' opinions supercede the opinions of Wikipedia editors. – Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX )  23:17, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Don't know why I decided "three" was the number. If the policy at

WP:COMMONNAME was as clearly on your side, you wouldn't be the only one in favor of this move that you've proposed. It's not like I'm some newbie arguing with you, either: I've been editing substantially longer than you, and I think that you've completely misinterpreted things. If you and a group of editors are working from a "list", I'd like to know what discussion generated that list, because it's apparent to me that that discussion came to the wrong conclusion. It needs a broader discussion.—Kww(talk) 23:31, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply

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This list we're working is generated by Toolserver and found on this page. Calm yourself, please, because the vast majority of articles that were on this list were simple cases of using the DISPLAYTITLE to lowercase the first letter, as in iTunes vs. ITunes. I also came across several articles that needed reformatting (symbol changes, punctuation changes, case changes, etc.) of some kind. I used the COMMONNAME policy to govern my decisions. Several admins helped me move some of the pages that needed reformatting over more-than-one-edit redirects. The list is almost finished, and you are the first to contest a move-per-policy. You do, of course, have every right to your opinion, whether or not you're an old-timer or a new editor. However, COMMONNAME is clear and specific about readers' opinions superceding the opinions of editors. Those who would come to read this article would expect to see their band's name depicted correctly, don't you agree? – Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX )  23:53, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• PS. I learned about that Toolserver list during this discussion.

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.