Talk:Don't Smile at Me

Ocean Eyes and Bellyache - Stylization
The stylization of these two songs is currently a very confusing situation to me, since although iTunes and Spotify list them with lowercase letters, Billie's official YouTube channel has them written normally. It's not a case of just the website it's on either, since other songs such as "my boy" and "idontwannabeyouanymore" are properly stylized. Can anybody explain why this is? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Redandsymmetry (talk • contribs) 18:25, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

I think Ocean Eyes and Bellyache were originally written not in lowercase, but then were changed to fit with the rest of the album. Billiekhalidfan (talk) 14:48, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

user:Kyle Peake, sorry it’s taking so long to respond. It’s been so stressful here on Wikipedia with other editors that I’m thinking of leaving. Please don’t fail the article yet, I’ll let you know what I’m going to do. P.S. Thank you for being so kind and wonderful to me over the past few months, you are an amazing editor and I have learned a lot from you. The Ultimate Boss (talk) 03:58, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
 * It is fine, as people can't be expected to operate at the same speed all of the time, especially when under stress. I wish you the absolute best in your potential future ventures on Wikipedia though; it is amazing to see that you are appreciative of me as an editor and I give you much kudos for that!!! --K. Peake 05:39, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Kyle Peake, I actually will always consider you the best editor here. And tbh, my English has gotten way better because of you! The Ultimate Boss (talk) 17:42, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
 * That is an honour to me, I feel proud in having enhanced your English and taken on a mentor role of sorts. --K. Peake 18:06, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Singles
Why are "My Boy" and "Copycat" listed as singles just because they had remixes? That doesn’t make them a single. Billiekhalidfan (talk) 04:24, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Actually My Boy is a single according to an article. Billiekhalidfan (talk) 12:12, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Album type
I think this is a compilation album because over half of the songs on the standard track list were released ahead of the album. It's nearly too long be an EP and with the expanded and Japanese versions it is a full-length album. Source: What do you think? Billiekhalidfan (talk) 13:49, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Anything 8 tracks or under can be described as an EP. MTV calls it an EP, Billboard agrees , and so does Idolator   . The solidarity in sources is clear and leaves nothing to be discussed.—NØ 14:33, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

But isn't there nine? Billiekhalidfan (talk) 14:46, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
 * The ninth track was only added on a December reissue according to the article. If it didn’t appear on the standard version then that could be (and was) marketed as an EP.—NØ 15:01, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

I know I haven’t got anything to do with this, but I just wanted to say, I think an EP can also be 10 songs or less. CheatCodes4ever (talk) 22:39, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Don't Smile at Me
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Don't Smile at Me's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Variety": From When I Was Older:  From Idontwannabeyouanymore:  From I Love You (Billie Eilish song):  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 00:09, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Regarding Reference #2 (the article from ssense.com)
When you click on the reference, it says that the connected article was originally published on 28 February, 2019. This is incorrect and I assume the result of a typo, as that article was originally published on 28 February, *2018* not 2019. It even says as much when you click on the "Archived" link; as for some inexplicable reason ssense.com is too cool and modern and minimalist to put publication dates on their articles themselves, but the archive website confirms the farticle was published 28 February, 2018.

I attempted to fix this myself, by clicking the edit button over at the section where the reference is first cited, and changing the date...but it doesn't seem to have changed anything. So I tried scrolling down to the "References" section and clicking the edit button down there, but all that did was inexplicably make the References section expand & collapse each time I clicked on it. So, at a loss, I figured I would just alert the talk page about this (admittedly minor) error, and hopefully someone who's a bit more Wikipedia-savvy than me can fix that misprint.

And just in case you're not convinced: A 28 February, 2018 publication date also tracks with the content of the article itself while a 28 February, 2019 publication date does not, because the article refers to Eilish (both in the headline AND the body) as "a 16 year-old girl." And since Eilish was born on 18 December, 2001 (holy hell it's too early for there to be celebrities who were born in the 21st century instead of the 20th; stop the world I wanna get off ;_;), it makes no sense for an article published in February of 2019 to refer to her as a 16 year-old, as she'd be 17 at that point, and going on 18 later that year.

Even if the author just inexplicably sat on this interview for exactly 1 full year before finally publishing it, NO editor would let a mistake like that slip by. It's in the HEADLINE ffs! AnarchoGonzo (talk) 05:33, 2 April 2022 (UTC)