Talk:Musica e dischi

Requested move 13 September 2015

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The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 10:23, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Musica e Dischi → Musica e dischi – As per Manual_of_Style. According to the convention of Italian language, no capitalization is required for titles, expect for the very first letter and proper nouns. I couldn't move the article as Musica e dischi is already a redirect. –  Tanonero    (msg)  23:51, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Worth a full discussion IMO. The guideline you've linked says "Capitalization in foreign-language titles varies, even over time within the same language; generally, retain the style of the original." and both the references in the article (both in Italian) capitalise it as "Musica e Dischi". Jenks24 (talk) 02:51, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:00, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * The capitalization style may change over time, but recently this is not the case of the Italian language, which is the same since I have memory. The two sources are simply wrong, as the capitalisation style is usually lightheartedly ignored by websistes and online newspapers, but this doesn't make it less wrong. A bit of sources now (I don't how much familiar you are with Italian, but I will translate anyway):

To sum up, I guess that several sources capitalize the publication as "Musica e Dischi" to emphasize the title within a text without resorting to italic or inverted commas, but as I showed the Italian convention states differently. -- Tanonero    (msg)  12:03, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Treccani : titoli di opere (letterarie, ma anche musicali e artistiche in genere) richiedono sempre l’iniziale maiuscola del primo elemento, anche se si tratta di un articolo: Il barone rampante (di Italo Calvino), Ragazzi di vita (di Pier Paolo Pasolini). Possono avere l’iniziale maiuscola anche gli altri elementi del titolo (tranne articoli, preposizioni e congiunzioni che non siano iniziali): Il Barone Rampante, Ragazzi di Vita. Quest’uso è però più frequente con opere risalenti fino al XIX secolo → "titles of literary, musical and artistic works always require the capitalization of the first letter, even if this is an article: Il barone rampante, Ragazzi di vita. The first letter of other words can start with a capital letter: Il Barone Rampante, Ragazzi di Vita, but this was the convention with works created until the XIX century".
 * Italian – Essential Grammar: Nei titoli di opere [la maiuscola] si usa solo per l'iniziale del primo vocabolo (es: I promessi sposi), salvo ovviamente che qualcuno dei termini successivi abbia motivo di per se' per averla (es: I racconti di Hoffman) → "Title of works have only the first letter capitalised (for istance, I promessi sposi), unless following words are proper nouns (for instance, I racconti di Hoffman)".
 * The manual of style of itwiki, which is very attentive with this kind of matters (you can see the in the Italian wiki the publication at issue is stylised as Musica e dischi indeed), says: Nelle lingue neolatine, ad esempio (come l'italiano), le maiuscole si usano unicamente per la prima lettera del titolo e per gli eventuali nomi propri (es. Vita e opinioni di Tristram Shandy, gentiluomo, Fra la via Emilia e il West, Il mio viaggio in Italia) → "In new Latin languages such as Italian, the capital letter is used only for the first letter of the title and for proper nouns (examples like above followed)". They cite two sources which unfortunately I don't have access to:
 * Luca Serianni, Grammatica italiana, UTET, 1989
 * Roberto Lesina, Il nuovo manuale di stile, 2ª ed. Zanichelli, Bologna, 1994. ISBN 9788808096029
 * Yes, the article should be moved! I considered the capitalised Dischi when writing the German article, but then choose to use the conventional dischi. On their website they use both forms; as it can be seen on various photographs, on the front page of the magazine they always wrote "musica e dischi", only the new logo M&D may have suggested the capitalisation.--XanonymusX (talk) 14:26, 15 September 2015 (UTC)


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