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[edit] Style for titles

What about style for Song Titles and Album Titles? On Wikipedia (I know people hate when they read this), albums are italicized and song names are double-quoted. This follows a lot of print style guides as well and it would help with readability as well. The rules are listed here on Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles).

Here's an example:

Regular Consistent style
The Else, Venue Songs, The Spine Hits The Road and The Spine (with Renew My Subscription as a bonus track) have been added to the UK and Canadian iTunes. Go get 'em, chaps! The Else, Venue Songs, The Spine Hits The Road and The Spine (with "Renew My Subscription" as a bonus track) have been added to the UK and Canadian iTunes. Go get 'em, chaps!

I'm sure that most people could go either way, but is there any support for this style suggestion? —Fitch 08:17, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

It looks nice, but it would probably be a lot of work. I can go either way on this. Anyone feel strongly one way or the other. --Duke33 14:17, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
I like the regular myself even though it isn't proper. -Nosaj56 15:04, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
I think it's not a big enough deal to make proper titles a consistent standard at the wiki. The fact that an album or song becomes blue and underlined lets it stand out enough, and I don't think it makes it that sloppy-looking to have some albums italicized and others not. BUT, if someone would like to go through and do that, then it would be great-- it's just not important to me. ~ magbatz 15:16, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
I feel strongly about italicizing albums, it's a nice form of consistency. Song titles in quotes is way too much to wish for, though. They should at least be in quoted in the Current Events, though. -CapitalQ / @ / 22:39, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Since nobody opposes, and there are some who agree but think it's too big an undertaking, I will put it on the main style guide, hopefully, we'll slowly move in that direction! —Fitch 01:02, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
I rolled back some of your changes, until we come to a consensus...I think that we were talking about making it a standard, when in the context of a sentence. I don't know that it makes sense to do that in say, a tracklisting. Anyone else? --Duke33 15:59, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
I think the italics looks alright, if a tad unnecessary, but the quotes look pretty cluttered. Plus I figured if it was agreed upon, a bot would implement it. There's no way on of us would/could do it for every page an album or song is mentioned. Every album page, single/ep page, show page, new archives, discussion page, and tons more. This place is huge. o_O --Luke 16:24, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
The track listing quotations may be unnecessary, but don't forget that Wikipedia does it. ;] I could pretty easily have Q-Bot implement that. However, I feel like having every song title in quotations for every instance on TMBW would just be a nightmarish process and something of a nightmare to constantly keep up to style. I really dunno about that idea. I'm fine with having Current Events and album pages (maybe even song page trivia sections) having quotation marks around songs and italicized album titles, but I dunno if it needs to exist anywhere else. -CapitalQ / @ / 18:08, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Cool, so we saw how it looks, it's a bit much. I don't know how easily a bot could be implemented, so I figured it was good to start somewhere. I guess I'm just thrown off when reading body text that has albums and songs and podcasts all named quirky, TMBG-y things and I can't tell judging from the context what is what. Since I use the wiki to keep up with TMBG, it's nice to know what's a song and what's an album.
So, along with what CapitalQ said, only when in a sentence/paragraph/other section that has albums and song titles, but not when used in info boxes or lists, etc? Whattyda think? And I'm sitting here thinking why am I writing so much on this? OCD much, Fitch? ;) —Fitch 06:41, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
I agree on making album names italicized. Pretty much everywhere. Especially in pages that consist of paragraphs. If we can get Q-Bot to do that somehow (it might work better with names like Factory Showroom than They Might Be Giants, but I would leave that to Mr. Q), then well gee that would be swell. But if not, I am bored enough to do some of it. ~ magbatz 16:33, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
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