Talk:The Corporation (Motown)

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"The Corporation™"? There is no reason to use the ™ mark, it only looks stupid (and I'm quite sure there is no law requiring us to use it). Jon Harald Søby 10:33, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

That's how they spell their name, on every album and single they did for the Jackson 5, with the "™". We respect all manner of other unusual spellings and pucntuations for band names, so that is indeed reason enough for us leave this as is. You're entitled to your opinion about whether or not the name looks "stupid", but opinions don't matter in this case.--FuriousFreddy 02:33, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

But Wikipedia has a guideline that says that we should not use the trademark symbol. --Metropolitan90 21:16, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

No we don't. If we did, it would be Macy*s and Wal*Mart, but they're not. We also don't honor capitalization; PlayStation 3 and MGM Mirage have been subject to discussion about whether to spell them with ALL CAPS or not. Hbdragon88 02:12, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

At the point of the last comment, Korn was still at KoЯn, which was my justification for keeping this page at the namespace with the trademark logo. Since it's been moved, I'll go along with it. However, I would like to point out that your arguments are ludicrous: Macy's and Wal*Mart are actual trademarks, "The Corporation™" is the name of a musical ensemble. And anyone wanting to spell "PlayStation" and "MGM Mirage" in all caps is ridiculous (by the way, by spelling "PlayStation" as "PlayStation", we are honoring capitalization). --FuriousFreddy 17:13, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

The guidelines say that CamelCase is a judgment call, and can be done either way. If you see unconventional usages, move them over and cite WP:MOS-TM as the reason. Just because it's used somewhere else does not justify the use of it on another page, because both pages would be violating the guideline. I am not sure what the distinction between trademarks and musicial emsembles is, perhaps if you can elaborate on why you think they deserve separate treatment. The guideline that Metropolitan90 pointed out says this: Do not use the ™ and ® symbols. Hbdragon88 07:03, 5 March 2007 (UTC)