Talk:I'm like a Bird

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[edit] Requested move

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Since the name of this is a proper noun, all words but "a" should be capitalized. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/MUSTARD#Capitalization. I  (said) (did) 11:19, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

  • Support - per nom ~ JohnnyMrNinja {talk} 17:44, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Support per nom. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 02:20, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
  • That's technically not true. Articles aren't capitalized in titles, but neither are prepositions, and "like" is a preposition here. That said, for better or for worse, longer prepositions such as "about" are often capitalized in titles (see, for example, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding). Dekimasuよ! 07:15, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
My grammar is a bit rusty, (it is the summer) but how is "like" a preposition? Doesn't it describe "I"? I  (said) (did) 07:24, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
If you check dictionary.com, you can find this one under definition 6 in the first entry, and the example sentence shows pretty well that it's the same meaning as the one used in this title. "I'm like a bird" has the same grammatical structure here as "I'm under the bridge" or "I'm at the bank". Dekimasuよ! 07:34, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Well I never. Your right. However it still looks funny. I  (said) (did) 09:25, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose, I think the title personally looks better with a capital "Like", but that doesn't follow Wikipedia's naming conventions for songs (Maybe we need a policy change). Also, the only proper noun in the title is "Bird". --musicpvm 18:55, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
My argument was that as a title of a song the whole thing was. But since Like is technically a preposition here, and less than five letters, it shouldn't be capitalized. So since I was wrong, what is proper procedure? Remove the tag and this pages entry at Requested moves? I still think it looks silly i (said) (did) 20:55, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
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.

It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. --Stemonitis 19:13, 27 July 2007 (UTC)