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::::Where, in the section above that you have ''incompletely quoted from your talk page'' do I say that "''the article should be deleted simply because the title is not in english''"? Please answer. Is English your mother tongue, because you seem to be incompetent, though oddly capable at rude snark. ] applies to competence in language too. -] ] 20:45, 3 March 2018 (UTC)"
::::Where, in the section above that you have ''incompletely quoted from your talk page'' do I say that "''the article should be deleted simply because the title is not in english''"? Please answer. Is English your mother tongue, because you seem to be incompetent, though oddly capable at rude snark. ] applies to competence in language too. -] ] 20:45, 3 March 2018 (UTC)"
:::::1. Please be polite. See ].<br/ >2. Yes, that was how I interpreted your reply. I asked where you saw the "meaningless drivel", and the only meaningful complaint I heard was that the title was not in English. --] (]) 21:25, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
:::::1. Please be polite. See ].<br/ >2. Yes, that was how I interpreted your reply. I asked where you saw the "meaningless drivel", and the only meaningful complaint I heard was that the title was not in English. --] (]) 21:25, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
::::::No. You asked "any questions" and I answered. Are you slightly dim? -] ] 00:09, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
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Requested move 02 January 2014
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Strong oppose. No reliable sources for the new title are presented. (No wonder cause there are no sources that say that the suggested title can be used officially. It can't be.) --Moscow Connection (talk) 14:21, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Oppose. Full title is used officially at Oricon and Billboard Japan chart. It also does not contain a subtitle, so there is no shortening of the title by the media sources. -AngusWOOF (talk) 15:54, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Support per nom and per WP:COMMONNAME. Notwithstanding the opposition expressed above, I see in practice little reason for any rational person, fan or no fan, to use the full official name of 76 characters except in official contexts, like chart listings. I'd be tempted to say that fans are even less likely to use the long form. -- Ohc 03:45, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
None of the proposals meet WP:COMMONNAME's requirements. The full title has 7.35M Google hits and seems to be used by reliable sources. "Suzukake Nanchara" is used only by fansites and the one NHK broadcast but does have 8.9M Google results. While the other abbreviation is only 1M Google results.—Ryulong (琉竜) 05:39, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
SupportWP:OFFICIALNAME we don't use official names just because they're official. WP:CONCISE, this is very long and the Japanese have a habit of abbreviating everything, even short things, with commonly used abbreviations for their subjects. -- 76.65.128.112 (talk) 04:56, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
This is a song title. There are no such other titles nor is there any precedent (other than the Fiona Apple album which has a technical limitation) to do such an abbreviation.—Ryulong (琉竜) 05:39, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
The Anime and Manga articles are replete with them, like Oreimo, WataMote, etc, which have very very long original titles; @Benlisquare those abbreviations originate from the Japanese, are otherwise meaningless, and widely used by Japanese people. And not just animanga, common everyday things also have them, like the konbini. -- 76.65.128.112 (talk) 23:05, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
This doesn't make a title such as "Suzukake Nanchara" encyclopedic. We have our article about beer located at Beer, and not Yo homie let me holla at chu and get yo big dawg some drank. Whatever colloquialisms Japanese people use is only part of the equation. "Suzukake Nanchara" is a colloquialism, and is an inappropriate title on Misplaced Pages, because such use of language is not suitable for an encyclopedia article title, especially since the longer alternative is more well established as the name for the topic. --benlisquareT•C•E00:23, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
It is encyclopedic because it is the proper name of the song when discussed online. You are suggesting that we change the title of this article to what is essentially translated as "Platanus Yada Yada Yada" simply because I copied text from the Japanese Misplaced Pages that says that this abbreviation exists in some form. It's not a printworthy title and this one is despite the fact it takes up 3 lines. The longer title meets WP:COMMONTITLE and WP:CONCISE does not meet coverage here. None of the reasons for moving are valid so this requested move should not be done.—Ryulong (琉竜) 08:45, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
I think you misunderstood my point, which was in favour of the longer term, and not the colloquial shortening. Also, what's the point of putting an asterisk before the colons instead of after, since there's no difference between putting and not putting an asterisk down in such a case? The bullet point only appears if the asterisk comes after the colons. I've noticed you do this a year ago in a different discussion, but didn't bother asking why. --benlisquareT•C•E09:12, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Putting the asterisk in front makes it so every comment that follows does not have a bullet point in front of it. Putting the asterisk last exists for the intent of making a bulleted list that is indented which has no purpose here.—Ryulong (琉竜) 09:16, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
(@76.65.*.*) Another point regarding those anime examples you provided is that they were originally at different article titles, and were renamed to those after it was discovered that North American licensees chose those shortened names. Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai (original article title at time of article creation) is called Oreimo in North America, because that's how Aniplex of America named the localisation. Have a look at the article talk pages for those two for more information. The relevant policy here is WP:USEENG (where an English title exists and it is a WP:COMMONNAME amongst English-language third party reliable sources, use the English title over foreign language titles). In other words, both the Oreimo and WataMote examples don't really reenforce your point. --benlisquareT•C•E09:19, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Oppose:WP:AINTBROKE. There is no technical limitation for having a long title. The current title is the official title used by record company catalogues, online stores, review websites and newspaper articles, and any contraction would be improper and undue. "Suzukake Nanchara" is not the common name, and the proposer has not provided adequate evidence that such a move complies with WP:COMMONNAME.
A shorter official title is not available for this one. "Suzukake Nanchara" is a official abbreviation intended as a stupid nickname to be used by fans in a conversation. To be clear, a Japanese editor translated "Suzukake Nanchara" as "Platanus blah blah blah", which I don't think is an appropriate title for a Misplaced Pages article. (Other possible translations wouild be something like "Platanus whatever" or "Platanus something", which doesn't look more decent.) --Moscow Connection (talk) 19:50, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
Even with that intended purpose of WP:CONCISE, do you really think a title which translates as "plane tree blah blah" is scholarly language that is suitable for an encyclopedia? Would it be suitable to rename "List of numbers in various languages" to "List of nu blah blah" if I believed that the title was too long? For what it's worth, neither the Chinese, Korean or Japanese Wikipedias abbreviate the title using "blah blah" or any of the other alternatives, precisely because they would probably think it would be stupid to have a title which had "blah blah" in it. --benlisquareT•C•E01:12, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
The article is in plain text and runs for several hundred words. There is no technical restriction that I can see that would prevent Billboard from spelling out the formal full name of the song in the running text. bd2412T19:10, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
Well for whatever reason they're cutting it off mid-word, and that U in there is an inability to parse the 「 character.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 19:24, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
Support -- there's no requirement that we use the WP:OFFICIALNAME, just a name that is natural, concise, recognizable, naturalprecise, and consistent. The current name of the article is unwieldy, not natural, and loquacious, not concise. Yes the extraordinarily long title is precise, but so is Suzukake Nanchara, given that "Due to the length of the title, consisting of 76 characters in Japanese and 210 when romanized, its name has been shortened to "Suzukake Nanchara" (鈴懸なんちゃら?, literally "Plane Tree Something Something") for the group's performance at the NHK Hall on their weekly show on NHK". I fail to see what the problem is with the shorter title and the many complaints that 'no reliable sources for the proposed title are presented' leaves me wondering if editors actually read the article, which includes the sentence I just quoted. AgnosticAphidtalk00:44, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
The proposed name is more unnatural, especially given the tone in Japanese. You might not realise this, but such a naming in Japanese is extremely unsuitable for what we're trying to achieve here, and there is a cultural and social reason behind it. The Japanese Misplaced Pages has the same set of article title guidelines at ja:Misplaced Pages:記事名の付け方, but why do you think they use the long name? Could it be that they understand the implications behind using a very silly name better than a lot of people on the English Misplaced Pages? When we refer to reliable sources, what is being addressed is whether or not the majority of reliable sources use the name (and they don't), since WP:COMMONNAME is one of the major points to address when determining an article title. We do not use blogs, tweets and message board posts as a gauge of which title to use, per WP:V - COMMONNAME requires that a title be justified using third-party reliable sources, and these third-party reliable sources use the longer title in the majority. By the same token, you wouldn't support a move based on teenage girls' Facebook profiles and MySpace posts, so why should we do the equivalent here? It doesn't matter if a shortened name is used by high school girls on Mixi or Livedoor, because we've never accepted those places as valid locations to gain information. --benlisquareT•C•E02:24, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
The issue is "Suzukake Nanchara" is not supported by reliable sources and simply was a one-off use in informal speech. Reliable sources go with the full title more often.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 03:01, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Strong support Current title is FAR too long (and the Romanization, capitalization and division of words is inconsistent), and proposed title is used officially in numerous places on the group's official website. (By the way, I'm the dynamic IP of an established user's smartphone, not a sock.) 182.249.240.14 (talk) 05:30, 12 January 2014 (UTC) (H88)
It does not currently exceed the length requirements. Romanization, capitalization, and division of the words meets with WP:MOS-JA's guidelines as far as I can tell. The proposed title is simply the "official abbreviation" and is not meant to always be used in place of the song's actual title.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 07:35, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
It meets MOSJ's guidelines because MOSJ doesn't have guidelines on how to capitalize/divide up words and grammatical functions like "Bokutachi", "Bokunari", "Yo", "Shimau" and so on. It's extremely rare that we have to Romanize full sentences like this, so it's a bit out of MOSJ's (current) scope to dictate whether auxiliary verbs should be split from the verbs they modify, or whether adverbial particles (I actually don't even know how to categorize nari here...) should not be considered separate words from the nouns they follow. I don't want to try to solve these obscure, mostly meaningless issues now, but I also don't want inconsistencies floating around the project (and I definitely don't want this article's accidental title setting the standard for us). 182.249.240.6 (talk) 10:20, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Well spacing can clearly be fixed but changing the whole page title to "Suzukake Nanchara" isn't going to be the solution to that.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 11:10, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
How so? Under the current title we have about a half-dozen places where the spelling is controversial, but the proposed title would solve that problem automatically, in addition to not being so unwieldy and to still being "official". 182.249.240.18 (talk) 11:52, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Also, the problem would remain as even if the title of the article were changed, the romanization of the full title would still appear somewhere in the article's text. --Cckerberos (talk) 09:29, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Oppose -- The title is indeed long, but I don't really see the issue as it doesn't break anything. I also agree that "nanchara" isn't particularly suitable for use in an article title. --Cckerberos (talk) 09:29, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Discussion
Any additional comments:
The nom's startement that the suggested title "was apparently used officially" is not reinforced by any links and, in fact, is completely untrue. It never was used officially and it can't be. Do you even know what "nanchara" means? The title is intended to be used only colloqually. --Moscow Connection (talk) 14:29, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I assumed people would take a look at the article first. In the lead section it says it was shortened to that. I think the example presented by bd (When the Pawn...) presents a perfect case.Raykyogrou0(Talk)16:47, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't "「鈴懸なんちゃら」が公式の略称です。" translate to something like "Suzukake Nanchara" is the official abbreviation.? Regardless, per WP:CONCISE this title is still too long. Does anyone have a better suggestion? Raykyogrou0(Talk)17:23, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
I think you're mistaken on what WP:CONCISE is supposed to mean. Right now, only one source is referring to this song as "Suzukake Nanchara". Most sources have been using the full 76 kanji/kana name, and of course there are no sources in English about this song yet so we can't go with whatever they might be calling it.—Ryulong (琉竜) 18:43, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Lower it says that it's to be used only orally: "（「鈴懸なんちゃら」ですが厳密に言うと、文字に書く場合ではなく、口で言う場合、言葉を発する場合の略称だそうです）". And "Suzukake Nanchara" sounds stupid, it would look very strange and maybe even inappropriate on Misplaced Pages. It's like a nickname suggested for use by fans. Japanese fans invent short nicknames for everything. The title is not too long, there are no rules that would say to shorten it. --Moscow Connection (talk) 18:52, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Well there is an attempt at an English (or romanized) title by Billboard on their English website for Japan Hot 100 but they just try to print the full title followed by ellipses -AngusWOOF (talk) 23:18, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
That someone was me and it was only because it's a really fucking long link that we don't need to repeat every single time on this or any other article. The title of this page should be as it is. Other names work as redirects.—Ryulong (琉竜) 04:02, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
"I doubt anyone looking for the song would type in the whole title." - good thing it isn't 2005 anymore, and Misplaced Pages's search function has an autocomplete function. Even typing in the first few words in Google takes you to the correct Misplaced Pages page. --benlisquareT•C•E05:35, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
I'd like to point that ] is so long that only "Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokic" fits on the page. Clearly there's something wrong here. Raykyogrou0(Talk)05:41, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
I've just noticed your source was a blog! You proposed to rename the article to a title siggested in a blog. :) (Yes, it's an official AKB48 blog, but it is still a blog and is written by AKB48 girls. What happened is that they invented the abbreviation themselves and suggested it to fans. --Moscow Connection (talk) 20:08, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
The blogger wrote: NHKホールでのＭＣで、センターの松井珠理奈さんが発表したように - (indented)「鈴懸なんちゃら」が公式の略称です。 So the blogger is citing the NHK broadcast. Whether the blogger is reliable or not depends on who posted it and whether they represent NHK staff or is just a forum user. The question then becomes what was said on the broadcast, and whether that is official or just one of the girls' opinion? -AngusWOOF (talk) 20:53, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
(edit conflict) Yes, you are right, Jurina Matsui announced it during the recording of Music Japan at NHK Hall. :) And yes, actually I don't know who the blogger is/are. I was inattentive. I just suddenly noticed the link wasn't the official site of some show as I thought yesterday and I didn't re-visit the page before posting. It says it was posted by someone called いしぴぃ, so it's probably someone from NHK. --Moscow Connection (talk) 21:49, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
But why do it? The article is okay where it is now. The title doesn't seem like a nuisance to me. A title truncated at completely random places seems like a nuisance, though. --Moscow Connection (talk) 18:58, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
The abbreviated title is only used where there is a technical restriction for displaying the whole title within Japan or if you're talking about it to a friend or on TV. There is no such restriction on the English Misplaced Pages, nor the Japanese Misplaced Pages where the full name is the article title.—Ryulong (琉竜) 19:30, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
In MLA when you cite an untitled poem, often the first line is taken as a title. If you treat the whole title as a poem, that's a good argument for Suzukake no Ki no Michi de, as that's where the title breaks on the cover (and that part is also bolded). --Prosperosity (talk) 10:10, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
タイトルが76文字にも及ぶ、『鈴懸の木の道で「君の微笑みを夢に見る」と言ってしまったら僕たちの関係はどう変わってしまうのか、僕なりに何日か考えた上でのやや気恥ずかしい結論のようなもの』 の略称は『鈴懸なんちゃら』 (abbreviation of 76-letter-long title "Suzukake no Ki no Michi de "Kimi no Hohoemi o Yume ni Miru" to Itte Shimattara Bokutachi no Kankei wa Dō Kawatte Shimau no ka, Bokunari ni Nan-nichi ka Kangaeta Ue de no Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono" is "Suzukake Nanchara")
So that's two uses in reliable sources out of dozens for the full title, and one of the Billboard pieces simply says that "Suzukake Nanchara" is the official abbreviation, which says nothing about whether it should be used as the title here. This discussion is going nowhere.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 15:55, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
It depends on who's calling it official and whether the context is just a media writing convenience like "Johnny Depp films for the next Pirates movie". If AKB48 is officially stating it as the shorthand (Jurina Matsui, AKB48 blog followup comment?) then I can see support for that, although it may still be a fan abbreviation. I encountered a situation where the author has acknowledged the fan abbreviation "RosaVamp" for "Rosario + Vampire" although the former is rarely used in any of the published media. -AngusWOOF (talk) 17:36, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Yet, they titled the YouTube video "【MV】鈴懸の木の道で「君の微笑みを夢に見る」と言ってしまったら僕たちの関係はどう変わってしまうのか、僕なりに何日か考えた上でのやや気恥ずかしい結論のようなもの ダイジェスト映像-AKB48" and not "鈴懸なんちゃら", didn't they? I still think it's an inappropritate title for the Misplaced Pages article. (Even if the abbreviation can be used in written text as the Billboard Japan article you found shows.) --Moscow Connection (talk) 12:47, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
I don't really know if there's a top 40 station here. All we do have is the proclamation that "Suzukake Nanchara" is the official abbreviation.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 00:24, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
I can see how most of the discussion is going towards disapproving "Suzukake Nanchara" because nanchara apparently means blah blah but what about the other options then? A shortened title with ellipsis in the middle or like this: "Suzukake Ki no Miche de..." Raykyogrou0(Talk)01:44, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
The full title of When the Pawn... cannot be made into a Misplaced Pages article title, due to technical constraints. If you try to move the article to the long title, you will receive an error message. The AKB48 article that we're currently dealing with here on the other hand makes it within the technical limits. --benlisquareT•C•E03:13, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Perhaps because there's no reason to use abbreviations as article titles unless there's a technical restriction or a common name exists. There is a common name for "When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right" and that's why the article is called "When the Pawn...", but there is no such common name for this song. There's the full title and an official abbreviation that isn't printworthy.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 12:21, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Because no one uses it outside of iTunes and when I cut down the content in the infoboxes and navboxes locally, which I should probably undo.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:54, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Oh, yes that totally makes sense. People say "Suzukake no Ki no Michi de "Kimi no Hohoemi o Yume ni Miru" to Itte Shimattara Bokutachi no Kankei wa Dō Kawatte Shimau no ka, Bokunari ni Nan-nichi ka Kangaeta Ue de no Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono" in normal, everyday conversation. Raykyogrou0(Talk)05:34, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
When people are talking to each other they probably say "Suzukake Nanchara" or start saying the title then give up part way through because the only people who give a shit about the band are the diehard fans who will listen to whatever they say, and the fact that they once said "You can use 'Suzukake Nanchara' as an abbreviation" does not mean that it has become the common name nor is the other abbreviated form. The form used in reliable sources to refer to the song is the full title. Unlike When the Pawn..., there is no technical restriction to speak of whatsoever in having the full romanisized tile of this song on Misplaced Pages, which is why the article exists at the location it does. Suzukake no Ki no Michi de "Kimi no Hohoemi o Yume ni Miru" to Itte Shimattara Bokutachi no Kankei wa Dō Kawatte Shimau no ka, Bokunari ni Nan-nichi ka Kangaeta Ue de no Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono works in the software. ] does not. I am tired of arguing this point. There's nothing wrong with the present title of the page becasue it is the title that meets with all of the article titling policies and guidelines. WP:CONCISE does not cover this and neither "Suzukake Nanchara" (only referred to as the "official abbreviation"), "Suzukake no Ki no Michi de...Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono" (only used when a technical restriction exists on iTunes and other music retailers), nor "Suzukake No Ki No Michi De uKim..." (a technical restriction at the American Billboard website which also exists because they do not properly transpose the left corner bracket) meet WP:COMMONNAME because the only one found in reliable sources is the full title.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 05:56, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
WP:Concise was meant to prevent article titles like "Commonwealth of Virginia", "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" in place of "Virginia" or "United Kingdom" because those are obviously concise names for those two subjects. There does not exist a concise name for this song. There is simply an "officially sanctioned" abbreviated title.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 06:36, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
And how does "balancing brevity with sufficient information to identify the topic in a way the average person searching for it will recognize" not apply to this title? Like Berlinsquare said, typing in the first few words will take the reader to the right page. Raykyogrou0(Talk)08:27, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
I don't think the average person will be necessarily looking for AKB48's most recent single. In my opinion it is a pretty niche topic area in English speakers.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 08:58, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
But given the fact that there are English-speaking people looking for this song (hence the existence of this article) wouldn't it fit better at a shortened title for conciseness? Raykyogrou0(Talk)11:50, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
This article exists because there is a group of editors on this website who are fans of the band and make these articles. And they're all the people here who have been opposing the move because they don't feel that Misplaced Pages's titling policy says that the full title of the song when transliterated into English should not be allowed. And I find the timing of this discussion to be quite circumspect, because if I had not bothered to add the known abbreviations you would have never felt the need to start this discussion that's going nowhere fast.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 13:14, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
Those in support of a move still haven't explained this yet: If having a long title is such a terrible thing, then why haven't other language Misplaced Pages projects done anything about it?
Surely if the problem of being too long is as obvious as people are claiming it to be, people elsewhere would be thinking the same thing as well? Yes, it's true that each Misplaced Pages project works completely individually and separately, however if the other Wikipedias are using the longer titles, that would probably be something to take into account. --benlisquareT•C•E14:01, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
This is just me thinking out loud, but words written in chinese, japanese and korean use way less characters than when romanized. Raykyogrou0(Talk)05:11, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
That's because in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, a character is a word. A character in Roman script is a letter, and be the equivalent to a brush stroke. -- Ohc 03:26, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
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Ahem: There was a lengthy discussion of that question a few months ago, as recorded above on this Talk page. My personal thoughts on the topic are already recorded there. —BarrelProof (talk) 01:36, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
Not even five months passed since the last discussion came to an end, maybe it's way too soon to start another. I would wait at least until early next year. Victão Lopes01:48, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
Yes, see the RM discussion immediately above. As for the question, the follow up is "how, exactly?", as without some indication what the proposal is it's impossible to weigh the tradeoff of length and precision. Of course a precise rename proposal is just a RM which happened only a short time ago.--JohnBlackburnedeeds02:09, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
Comment - if the song hasn't been abbreviated to "AKB48 no 'Suzukake no Ki' " in Japanese print books it's because the song is non-notable for print sources in Japan and hasn't been discussed. If it was discussed in English print books it'd be referred to as "Japanese girl group AKB48's song Suzukake no Ki.. (Plane Trees)" and we'd be thinking about Plane Trees (AKB48 song). But has it made print sources? Judging from the article, no. For English readers anyway the most useful thing would be the most recognizable thing about the product, the band name, (AKB48 song) but our mission is to make life as difficult for song article readers as possible, we are not here to help, but to obstruct where ever possible. This discussion here is really then a debate about in which way to obstruct and how much to obstruct. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:20, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
A lot of negativity here, although I also see no reason to shorten the title, especially since the abbreviations are redirects. ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 03:03, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
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Contested deletion
This page should not be speedily deleted because it is not a "meaningless drivel with no encyclopeadic value" as the nominator stated, but an encyclopedic article about a release notable per WP:NSONG. --Moscow Connection (talk) 14:09, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
The nominator's complaint is as follows:
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I have removed some misquoted nonsense above. my complaint, as stated in the nomination was "meaningless drivel with no encyclopeadic value." It is still "meaningless drivel with no encyclopeadic value" -Roxy, the dog.barcus16:15, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, Roxy the dog. I have no idea where you saw the so-called "meaningless drivel with no encyclopeadic value". The song is notable per WP:NSONG. Any questions? --Moscow Connection (talk) 14:14, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
I think that meaningless drivel was just because I wanted to be polite. Is the title of the article written in English? We are after all the English language Misplaced Pages. -Roxy, the dog.barcus 15:02, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
This page should not be speedily deleted because... Yes, the song has an extremely long title, but it is a number-one hit on Oricon and meets NSONG. --AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 15:21, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
Where, in the section above that you have incompletely quoted from your talk page do I say that "the article should be deleted simply because the title is not in english"? Please answer. Is English your mother tongue, because you seem to be incompetent, though oddly capable at rude snark. WP:CIR applies to competence in language too. -Roxy, the dog.barcus20:45, 3 March 2018 (UTC)"
The speedy deletion was declined by an admin as it was not a valid criteria for speedy deletion. Speedy deletion is only used for very clear cut and indisputable cases of pages needing deletion. As it says at Template:Db: Use this template to explain why the page meets the criteria for speedy deletion – you still need to say which criteria for speedy deletion it satisfies, and why.
As for the name there is no requirement for a name to be in English. Although this is an English encyclopaedia it has global scope, and includes many non-English topics. If they do not have a name they are commonly known by in English we use the foreign name, Romanised for accessibility. This is the case not only for relatively unknown songs like this but for well known ones like Non, je ne regrette rien or Ça plane pour moi. Or see Category:AKB48 songs for many more examples.--JohnBlackburnedeeds23:31, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
