Talk:List of songs recorded by the Carpenters

My Body Keeps Changing My Mind link issue

The song title is linked to "Mathis Magic" re: Johhny Mathis. A better link is to the song's writer, Leslie Pearl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Pearl I can't get the formatting right to change it myself; can anyone fix this please? Thanks. Denstat (talk) 04:14, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 1 November 2023

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: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Polyamorph (talk) 08:51, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

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List of songs recorded by The Carpenters → List of songs recorded by the Carpenters – Apparently this is controversial, due to continual move warring, despite it being in clear violation of MOS:THEBAND. --woodensuperman 09:21, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

For context, see List of songs recorded by the Beatles, List of songs recorded by the Beach Boys, List of songs recorded by the Monkees, List of songs recorded by the Rolling Stones, List of songs recorded by the Who, List of songs recorded by the Wiggles, etc., etc., etc. --woodensuperman 09:24, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose, the present uppercased title reflects the name of the group at its main article, and change the other examples to uppercase which should also reflect the names of the group at their main articles. Thanks for pointing out the mistakes in the six other pages. Randy Kryn (talk) 09:50, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

  Hardly a mistake Randy, you need to read the MOS. You can't just wilfully deny it. --woodensuperman 09:53, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

  The guideline you point out refers to in-text mentions, the song-grouping article titles should directly reflect the name of the main articles of these bands. Randy Kryn (talk) 10:43, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

  Wrong! Article titles are in sentence case, MOS:THEBAND explains how the "the" in a band name is used mid-sentence. --woodensuperman 11:03, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

• Support. The nominator's argument is correct – this article's title is in sentence case, and thus MOS:THEBAND applies to it. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 13:33, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
• Support per MOS:THEBAND and nom (and Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/The Beatles and List of songs recorded by the Beatles). —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 14:43, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
• Support. This is a routine MOS:THEBAND case and "But I'm over-capitalizing it in the article text" is a trebly fallacious argument (WP:FAITACCOMPLI, WP:CIRCULAR, WP:OTHERCRAP). All it means is that we have some text to clean up.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  17:12, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
• Support per MOS:THEBAND. Primergrey (talk) 22:50, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
• Changed to Support and snow close, with everyone going with the lowercasing then this must be an "I like it" bias on my part. Doesn't seem right to me that the band's real name cannot appear in the title of the page which focuses on that bands songs. Things either look right or they don't, so this seems a difference of opinion about how the guideline reads, and it should probably be made clearer that the title of the page is included in the prescribed lowercasing. Randy Kryn (talk) 23:46, 1 November 2023 (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.