Talk:When I Was a Bachelor

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JoeNMLC (talk) 00:52, 2 May 2022 (UTC)


 * This article is now linked in List of nursery rhymes. I'll be off to remove the orphan tag once I sign this message.
 * ~ BrendaJaneF (talk) 18:53, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Folk song
I believe this is better known as a folk song rather than a nursery rhyme. For the most well known lyrics, see https://www.oxfordlieder.co.uk/song/4962. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.125.236.202 (talk) 09:31, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 2 May 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. to When I Was a Bachelor per discussion. (non-admin closure) Safari Scribe Edits! Talk! 07:59, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

When I was a Bachelor → When I was a bachelor – or. Either lowercase "Bachelor" per MOS:INCIPIT or uppercase the verb per MOS:CT. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 22:04, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Support "When I Was a Bachelor": I used two search engines to generate a passel of uses of the phrase (some titles and some parts of the rhyme) and counted various capitalizations. See below.
 * DuckDuckGo
 * when i was a bachelor, any capitalization, 72
 * When I was a bachelor, 1
 * When I was a Bachelor, Wikipedia and 2
 * When I Was a Bachelor, 33
 * Google
 * when i was a bachelor, any capitalization, 109
 * When I was a bachelor, 35, only 6 of which were used as titles
 * When I was a Bachelor, Wikipedia and 9
 * When I Was a Bachelor, 36


 * Also some give the title as "The Foggy, Foggy Dew" or "The Foggy Dew". This is not scientific and if it were close I wouldn't take it too seriously, but title case has the far greater proportion, so I take it that "When I Was a Bachelor" is the title of the rhyme. SchreiberBike &#124; ⌨ 23:11, 2 May 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 MOS:CT interpretation, like SchreiberBike. Dicklyon (talk) 05:11, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Support MOS:CT interpretation, like SchreiberBike. Cinderella157 (talk) 22:45, 6 May 2024 (UTC)