Talk:Nymphs (band)

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Shouldn't this be a new section in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.117.103.145 (talk) 03:26, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Requested move 27 February 2022

 * 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 both: I'm going to make a judgement here and say that despite the low number of involved users the argument to move both pages is stronger than the argument not to. (non-admin closure) Spekkios (talk) 03:44, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

– For the band article “The Nymphs”, the title is incorrect. The band’s name is simply “Nymphs”. I have been able to make all the appropriate edits to the page article content, but not for the article title that remains as “The Nymphs”. (Link below)
 * The Nymphs → Nymphs (band)
 * The Nymphs (album) → Nymphs (album)

The article title should either be: “Nymphs (Band)” (for the purpose of disambiguation with the term “Nymph”) or simply: “Nymphs”. My thought is that the former is the better suggestion. Apparently the page will need to be moved to accomplish this and thus the request here in the page move talk section. Is it possible to make this change? As a definitive source of record to backup the requested change, please see on Discogs where as an artist/band they are correctly listed as “Nymphs” and where cover artwork for all of their releases can be found with NONE incorporating the word “The” as part of the band’s name.

For the album article “The Nymphs”, the title is incorrect. The name of the album (which is self-titled) is simply “Nymphs”. I have been able to make all the appropriate edits to the page article content, but not for the article title that remains as “The Nymphs (album)”. (Link below). Also the links back to the Band Wiki page in the Album Infobox (x2) need to be updated to the corrected artist page article title move that I have requested (assuming that it gets approved). The article title should be: “Nymphs (Album)” (for the purpose of disambiguation with the term “Nymph”), including the word “Album” in title case, rather than all lower-case. Apparently the page will need to be moved to accomplish this and thus the request here in the page move talk section. Is it possible to make this change?

As a definitive source of record to backup the requested change, please see on Discogs where both the artist and the album are simply “Nymphs”, not “The Nymphs” and where cover artwork for this release can be viewed. It does not incorporate the word “The” anywhere on it. It also does not appear on the back, either spine of the CD or on the barcode spine sticker from the manufacturer (UMG Distribution for Rock Candy Records/Geffen)

– Thanks, HandOfKwll (talk)HandOfKwll


 * The above was copied directly from WT:RM (permalink). Formatting-only changes (diff) were then made to the above by myself, Special:PermaLink/1074286672 is the original. Primefac (talk) 13:11, 27 February 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:03, 6 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Support(album)/Oppose(band). Did a quick spot check of how listed on a few music services. Apple Music: "The Nymphs" for the band, "Nymphs" for the album.. Amazon: "The Nymphs" for the band, "Nymphs" for the album. Spotify: "The Nymphs" for the band, "Nymphs" for the album. YouTube music has "The Nymphs" as the band, and "Nymphs"(1991) as the album.. I'm seeing same pattern as I spot search additional online music catalogs. Genius has both listed as "Nymphs". Discogs vinyl artwork does show "The Nymphs" as the name. As does this disc, which states "Words Inger Lorre/Music the Nymphs except as indicated." It does look like there might be different band(s) with the same name. which shows up as the 2010 EP in several links above, as well as the 2012 "Language of the Nymphs" by "The Nymphs". Pale Aqua (talk) 16:12, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

I’ll note that on the vinyl it very specifically says words by “the Nymphs” not “The Nymphs”. If the band’s name was “The Nymphs” it would be capitalized as part of the proper name. I would recommend you see their release “A Practical Guide To Astral Projection” where it very clearly says “Nymphs” on the cover…without the word “The”. https://www.discogs.com/master/158143-Nymphs-A-Practical-Guide-To-Astral-Projection

Also, on your link to the vinyl artwork page, I do not see the word “The” present on either the front or the back artwork. On what looks to be the interior artwork, the notes say “The Nymphs” as it is the beginning of a paragraph/sentence so “The” in this case is simply the articulate (similar to how it is used in the liner notes, save that because it is not the first word of the sentence it’s in, it is very specifically not capitalized). The fact that the band’s name is a noun makes it easy to want to throw a “the” in front of it, where you would never see something like that happen with a band like: “Oingo Boingo”. (You do not ever see the band even articulately referred to as “The Oingo Boingo”). This is a defect of language, not a result of the band’s name being “The Nymphs”.

I think it’s very difficult to argue against a band that has no cover artwork that features the word “The” preceding the band’s name. It’s clearly a common mistake, and places that you are citing as references are guilty of taking feeds from source systems that have it in their databases incorrectly. If All Music or Muze (as examples of popular music database services) have it wrong, then all of their downstream clients will of course have it wrong as well. I can also provide a ticket stub from their tour with Peter Murphy from 1992 that says “Nymphs”, not “The Nymphs” if I had a way to upload the image as further support. HandOfKwll (talk) 02:53, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Further support - Nymphs appear in the 1990 film “Bad Influence” as themselves performing the song “The Highway”. James Spader’s character asks Rob Lowe’s character who is the band that’s performing and Lowe replies: “Nymphs”, which Spader even repeats inquisitively as “Nymphs?”. No use of the word “The” by either character. This is NOT a coincidence. If the band’s name was “The Nymphs” there would be no instances of “Nymphs” used by itself. I think it’s an additionally compelling argument that the correct band name is simply: “Nymphs”. Please view for yourselves - YouTube clip of referenced scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNm_W75WDyo

HandOfKwll (talk) 23:10, 5 March 2022 (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.