Talk:Daddy, What Did You Do in the Great War?

"left sarcastic answers"
References 23 and 30 are cited in support of that statement, but reference 23 does not support them being sarcastic or involving dark humor. It says,

"It was recorded as a favourite with many soldiers, who displayed it, complete with appropriate answers, on the walls of their dugouts. " Ccrrccrr (talk) 23:41, 17 April 2023 (UTC)


 * It appears that Ref. 30 does not use the word sarcastic, but does describe it as dark humor. It attributes it to the Nicholas Hiley article, but I don't have access to that.   Ccrrccrr (talk) 01:39, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 6 April 2024

 * 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. Per consensus. You vs YOU per litany of MOS/WP guidelines/policies cited. – robertsky (talk) 12:54, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Daddy, what did you do in the Great War? → Daddy, What Did You Do in the Great War? – I might be sticking my neck out a bit too far here, but this is the title of a specific published work. It is the name of a poster. So it seems like WP:NCCAPS / MOS:CT should arguably apply. The other named posters in Category:Propaganda posters (and Category:Posters more generally) are using title case. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 06:13, 6 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for raising this @BarrelProof, I'd be happy to support a move.  Unexpected lydian♯4 talk‽  08:53, 6 April 2024 (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.
 * Support: The article presents it as the title of the work of art, a notable poster in this case, so it should be in title case. It could be presented as a quote from the poster's text, and the poster could have a different name, but that does not seem to be the case. I'm also surprised it's in quote marks rather than italics, but I've not given posters much thought. SchreiberBike &#124; ⌨ 21:43, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Uppercase the full word YOU per the title of the poster, with the rest in sentence case ("Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?"), which seems to be the correct and original name of the poster. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:11, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Support Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War? per Randy Kryn as that seems to be the poster source. microbiology Marcus [petri dish·growths] 22:02, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I'll stick with my original suggestion. The suggested alternative is not formatted as the title of a work and has all-caps, which is very seldom used on Wikipedia (see "Invader ZIM" in WP:AT and MOS:ALLCAPS). —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 01:51, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Support the original proposal. The "YOU" version is against MOS:TITLES and MOS:ALLCAPS and WP:NCCAPS; we do not use all-caps as a form of emphasis, even if the original did. "YOU" is not an acronym, so we would not do this to it. And it is what the original poster said anyway (which was "Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?"). WP does not mimic decorative font effects, which is entirely the point of MOS:TM, too. If it is felt important to indicate that the orignal had some form of semantic emphasis, the way to do that (per MOS:TITLES and MOS:CONFORM and MOS:EMPHASIS) is "Daddy, what did  do in the Great War?" (with ); and, for the title styling, to use  near the top of the article.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  22:01, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Support as proposed per MOS:TITLECAPS: Daddy, What Did You Do in the Great War?. Dicklyon (talk) 03:02, 16 April 2024 (UTC)