Talk:Woman Like Me

Requested move 30 December 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: No consensus to move (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 06:08, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

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Woman Like Me → Woman like Me – Per MOS:TITLECAPS, "like" should be in lowercase. The "potential exceptions" do not apply because, in this case, "like" is a preposition. The exception only applies to non-prepositions (Apply our five-letter rule (above) for prepositions except when a significant majority of current, reliable sources that are independent of the subject consistently capitalize, in the title of a specific work, a word that is frequently not a preposition, as in "Like" and "Past"). If the title was "I Like a Woman", "like" would be capitalized as it is not a preposition in that case. D🎉ggy54321 ^{(happy new year!)} 02:27, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

If the phrase was said in a sentence, it could be rephrased as "Woman such as myself". In this case, "such as" replaces "like", meaning "like" is a preposition and should be in lowercase. D🎉ggy54321 ^{(happy new year!)} 02:39, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

• Comment: I have no strong opinion on this, but if you have a look at the requested move on the talk page of another Little Mix article, "Love Me Like You", you can see how there are conflicting opinions about this. We have lots of articles where "like" is in lower case, and lots of articles where "Like" is capitalised, and no consistency across Wikipedia. Richard3120 (talk) 02:49, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

That article is also not named correctly. The title (with context) can be expanded to "They can't love me as you do" (original lyric: "They can't love me like you"). "Like" is therefore a preposition. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. D🎉ggy54321 ^{(happy new year!)} 03:03, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose you're misreading the exception. The word "like" is frequently not a preposition, so it is permitted to capitalize it in some situations where it is used as a preposition. I don't find any sources that don't capitalize "Like" here. power~enwiki (π, ν) 06:52, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

I didn’t get that at all from the exception. I think I’m gonna open a RfC at MOS:CAPS so that we can get some clarification, as there is a lot of inconsistencies and misunderstandings of the rules. There’s Love Me Like You but also Love Me like You Do. It makes no sense. D🎉ggy54321 ^{(happy new year!)} 14:08, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose as unsupported by the predominance of usage in the references used for the article. MOS:TITLECAPS must never supersede WP:VERIFIABILITY. Also the five-letter rule used in it is arbitrarily set by Wikipedia editors - not a universal rule. See recent discussion at Talk:Spider-Man: Far From Home#Requested move 29 August 2020. -- Netoholic @ 09:56, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

@Netoholic: WP:V has nothing to do with this. Per MOS: (specifically MOS:TITLECAPS), the title should be with a lowercase "like". I really should open a talk discussion at MOS:CAPS. D🎉ggy54321 ^{(happy new year!)} 21:35, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Using a "house style" (except for the limited set of technical limitations inherent in the Mediawiki platform) is original research. Titles should be based on the predominance of style used within sentences in the sources. -- Netoholic @ 11:34, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

But what if a song is in all capital letters? We don’t follow the sources in that instance, per MOS:CAPS, and MOS:TITLECAPS is part of MOS:CAPS. So why do we follow MOS:CAPS to an extent, but then disregard other information in it? D🎉ggy54321 ^{(happy new year!)} 04:43, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

If its technically achievable and all caps is predominant in sources, I see no problem. We can redirect from any common variant spellings. -- Netoholic @ 05:32, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

@Netoholic: but then why does the MoS exist if we can just ignore it? I’ve been told through all of my Wikipedia journey that the MoS exists and we are to follow it. There’s warning templates such as {{uw-mos1}} that tell us to use MoS, it’s been referenced in edit summaries and talk conversations millions of times, and we can’t exactly get rid of it unless it’s through a giant community discussion. Titles are to be in title case on Wikipedia. D🐶ggy54321 ^{(let's chat!)} 01:31, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Well-intentioned guidelines with small scopes occasionally get out of hand. -- Netoholic @ 06:02, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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