Talk:Girl (Pharrell Williams album)

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Semi-protected edit request on 4 March 2014

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The first sentence in the "Music and Lyrics" section should read "The album's first single" rather than "The album's fifth single", because "Happy" was the first and, so far, only single from the album. Quickgiant (talk) 00:56, 4 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

This fix was made by another editor. RudolfRed (talk) 02:03, 4 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

A correction i would like to submit is Black Lot Music nor its logo is on Pharrell Williams new album G I R L,but that his newly formed i Am Other LLC label/company & Columbia Records are listed on the back of his new album case. Thank you for viewing my correction Thank You — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gio1766 (talkcontribs) 02:35, 4 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

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The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 03:01, 12 March 2014 (UTC)Reply


Girl (Pharrell Williams album)G I R L – The album is called G I R L, not Girl. Unreal7 (talk) 15:22, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

True, but for both Prism and Beyoncé we're actually following the style used by reliable sources. (I couldn't info for Shakira.). In this case, we are treating the title differently from reliable sources and making up our own title. Hot Stop talk-contribs 18:11, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
We are not making up our own title. G I R L = Girl, only in the first case the title is stylized and is against the policy of Wikipedia, that's the reason we add the note in the lead that the title is stylized as G I R L. — Tomíca(T2ME) 18:21, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
It's not a stylisation. It's called G I R L. Unreal7 (talk) 19:43, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
GIRL redirects to Girl, and I think it should be left that way. But we can always use GIRL (album) as a redirect to G I R L, the same applies to Girl (Pharrell Williams album). — Mayast (talk) 20:36, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Oppose per MOS:TM. Mayast (talk) 14:18, 7 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
  • Note: looking through the page's history, it's important to point out that the article was created at "G I R L" and remained that way until two days ago. The closing admin should take that into account. Hot Stop talk-contribs 22:31, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
I would also add that it was moved without any prior discussion. Mayast (talk) 22:34, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, the second source (RedEye) only uses "Girl" in the title, and then "G I R L" throughout the article, but that's insignificant. Mayast (talk) 23:26, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
That's just the pronunciation. Unreal7 (talk) 01:08, 6 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Exactly... That's the point. G I R L is a stylization. You still pronounce it as Girl. Pink is stylized as P!nk. Kesha is stylized as Ke$ha. — Status (talk · contribs) 03:42, 6 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
And here's another video of him explaining that the album is called Girl, but that he put it in capital letters with spaces in between each letter because "when you look at it, it looks a little weird". That's a stylization of the word Girl. It's still called Girl. Period. — Status (talk · contribs) 03:58, 6 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
It's pronounced "girl", but not spelt that way. INXS's name is spelt out. Unreal7 (talk) 11:05, 6 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
I don't think you understand the fact that spacing is not part of the spelling of a word. Spacing is styling. INXS is a spelling (and it's pronounced in-excess). — Status (talk · contribs) 13:13, 6 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Out of interest, on an Android "g space i space r space l" gives G I R L and G.I.R.L. Squad as the two options, wheras "Girl Ph..." gives only Girl (Pharrell Williams album). So for Android users this RM has only downside. In ictu oculi (talk) 10:14, 7 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

About 90-95% of reliable sources use capitals and spaces. Unreal7 (talk) 19:14, 11 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

Do you realize that that's not the point here, it's still a stylization of the title and it's against the policy that Wikipedia uses. G I R L is a stylized title of the word Girl, even Pharrell pronounce it 'girl' in the dozens of interviews Status posted. — Tomíca(T2ME) 19:19, 11 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Please add a hatnote to the diambiguation page, as "G I R L" currently redirects here, and could easily be a emphasis form for many of the other entries.

{{redirect|GIRL|other uses|girl (disambiguation)}}

-- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 06:38, 6 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

I added the hatnote. jhsounds (talk) 11:13, 6 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

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The result of the move request was: consensus not to move the page at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 20:31, 16 November 2014 (UTC)Reply


Girl (Pharrell Williams album)G I R LMOS:TM is a guideline; WP:COMMONNAME is a policy. The previous discussion took place very close to the album release; the album has been out for quite awhile now and sources still overwhelmingly prefer "G I R L". MOS:TM even says, "Follow standard English text formatting and capitalization rules, even if the trademark owner considers nonstandard formatting 'official', as long as this is a style already in widespread use, rather than inventing a new one." –Chase (talk / contribs) 16:57, 10 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

  • Oppose: This sort of decorative styling seems like exactly what MOS:TM (wisely) says to avoid, and I seriously doubt it will be followed consistently by reliable sources – especially in the long run. It's a WP:RECENT topic, so we haven't seen much of the long run yet. —BarrelProof (talk) 17:50, 10 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
  • 3 sources ≠ "widespread use". Pronunciation isn't relevant if the vast majority of sources use the "stylized" title. It isn't Wikipedia's job to format everything according to how it's pronounced; it's our job to follow the standard that has been set by third party sources. –Chase (talk / contribs) 18:35, 10 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
Support as G I R L (Pharrell Williams album). The stylisation shouldn't be enough to disambiguate but it is how it is most regularly done. See: girl pharrell williams Gregkaye 22:13, 10 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
  • Is it Wikipedia's job to decide what the "real title" of an artwork is, especially when the vast majority of sources use the official title? If Girl was "basically" the title, it wouldn't be listed at retailers with the spaced-out title, nor reported by most sources with that title. –Chase (talk / contribs) 15:23, 11 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
  • We don't go with what sources say, We use Common sense and name articles appropriately, G I R L is basically Girl no matter what you or sources say, You don't pronounce the album by letter .... It's spoken as "Girl", The song is in relation to Girl(s) therefore it's Girl. –Davey2010(talk) 15:41, 11 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
  • I would say, yeah, we do go according to sources, however, in this case this isn't an abbreviation divided by full stops. Pharrell told that the album's name is inspired by women and girls obviously, so why stylize a title when it's not necessary? — Tomíca(T2ME) 16:27, 11 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
  • WP:COMMONSENSE and WP:IAR apply in instances where following rules harms the encyclopedia, not when editors don't like the formatting that is employed in most reliable sources and want to evade policies such as COMMONNAME just because they don't like the way a common name looks as an article title. –Chase (talk / contribs) 17:02, 12 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
By the way, anyone must read Talk:GetItRight (Miley Cyrus song). --George Ho (talk) 10:41, 14 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well that certainly gave me a few laughs   ... Well.. I've seen it all now!.... –Davey2010(talk) 17:03, 14 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
And Talk:LoveGame#Requested move. --George Ho (talk) 04:11, 15 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well it certainly doesn't get any better!, You'd think the initial request was stupid enough and then all the "Opposers" come along and make it even more ridiculous!..... There's some things in life best left unanswered. –Davey2010(talk) 04:19, 15 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
What about using official title style and disambiguation at the same time? --George Ho (talk) 04:12, 15 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

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