Talk:Black Tape for a Blue Girl

YES that's proper capitalization

I've looked around at this a long time. I've seen it spelled black tape for a blue girl, Black tape for a blue girl, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, but Rosenthal when he writes about it capitalizes every word; and when it's abbreviated its BTFABG, so every word matters. And besides, he's the authority on his own projekt. Russell D. Jones 20:58, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

That's certainly a good point. I'm sure it won't be the last time this subject comes up. You might want to take it to the next level. D. Matt Innis 01:20, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

I dunno if it actually *is* a good point. Many famous writers, back in the days when they actually *wrote*, on typewriters, or by quill pens or whatever, no matter what wonderful stylists they were, were terrible spellers, for instance. It took a whole publishing house full of editors to clean up their stuff. Why should we trust Rosenthal here? It's like the Kingston Trio, in 1990 or so, copyrighting themselves as "The Kingston Trio", with caps on the "The". Absurd. Hayford Peirce 02:36, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Isn't that the point, that "The Kingston Trio" should be the ones that decide how the write their name? Do we write "the Mary Tyler Moore Show?" Now that would be absurd. D. Matt Innis 03:07, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Citizendium doesn't have a Manual of Style, and in the absence of one I use Hart's Rules and Chicago Manual of Style, and they state that definite articles and prepositions should always be in lowercase with the exception of titles within quotes ot italics. The "follow what the artist says" seems to be a dictum created on wikipedia, as no other print encyclopaedia I know of uses that, and even in this instance WP uses the title "Black Tape for a Blue Girl". Meg Ireland 03:15, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Also a good point, has anyone considered asking a workgroup editor? D. Matt Innis 03:31, 12 April 2010 (UTC)