Talk:Love Etc. (song)

Requested move 15 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. (non-admin closure) Wikiexplorationandhelping (talk) 17:50, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

– The lowercase "etc" in the novel title is contrary to normal title formatting guidelines. Regardless of whether the second move is done, the difference in formatting between the song and novel titles is a triviality, so disambiguate the song title and redirect Love Etc. to the disambiguation page Love, etc.. * Pppery * it has begun... 17:22, 15 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.
 * Love Etc. → Love Etc. (song)
 * Love, etc (novel) → Love, Etc (novel)
 * Support. "Etc." doesn't appear to fit into any of the categories for which MOS:TITLECAPS says to use lower case. It's a contraction of Latin et cetera, in which et is a conjunction ('and'), but as a unitary term "etc." is not a conjunction, and is also not a preposition or any of the other listed lower-case-'em things. And it is also fully assimilated into English, not a foreignism like the equivalent German und so weiter (abbreviated usw.), so there is no "do what is done in the original foreign language with this sort of term" consideration here. Perhaps more importantly than any of that, there's also the issue that the same guideline says to capitalize first and last words in a title (and English-language one, anyway), no matter what they are, so even if this had no Latinism and was something like a truncated "Love And" (as the entire title), it would be rendered with "And" not "and". So, both of these titles should have "Etc[.]", and will thus need disambiguation, since the "." by itself is insufficient distinction (it would be omitted in both titles by many British writers and included in both by nearly all Americans).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  06:05, 16 April 2024 (UTC); revised to make better sense. 21:28, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Support. I suggest taking a second look, especially at the second suggested renaming (for the novel), which suggests to use uppercase for the last word in the title! (I might also be tempted to put a full stop at the end of the novel's title, as in ordinary English.) —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 08:41, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I must have been severely coffee deficient at that moment. I've revised.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:28, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. And per BarrelProof, SMcCandlish's comment seems more to support than oppose. Dicklyon (talk) 15:44, 16 April 2024 (UTC)