Talk:Come In Spinner

Notable?

Dymphna Cusack wrote multiple books and appears to be notable, I don't see why her books shouldn't be. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:09, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Book title

I am convinced the title of this book should be rendered Come In Spinner, not Come in Spinner. Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS:5) is quite clear: Always capitalized: When using title case, the following words should be capitalized: ... Words that have the same form as prepositions, but are not being used specifically as prepositions, in this case the word in, which here is part of a command or invitation, not a description, and each word has similar weight. Doug butler (talk) 06:08, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Something close to a majority of links to this article come by way of the "all capitalized" redirect, so rather than wait for users to notice this invitation to comment, I'm adding to their number by judicious edits. Doug butler (talk) 06:42, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

• Wikipedia's manual of Style (MO:5) however goes onto state:

Not capitalized: For title case, the words that are not capitalized on Wikipedia (unless they are the first or last word of a title) are:

• Indefinite and definite articles (a, an, the)
• Short coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor ; also for, yet, so when used as conjunctions)
• Prepositions containing four letters or fewer (as, in, of, on, to, for, from, into, like, over, with, upon, etc.)

In this context the word, in, is clearly a preposition. Dan arndt (talk) 07:27, 3 February 2023 (UTC) [courtesy indent by Doug butler (talk) 09:43, 3 February 2023 (UTC)]

The critical line in my quote is: Words that have the same form as prepositions, but are not being used specifically as prepositions. Getting away from MOS, the first reference work I pick up is the Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, Second Edition. Page 179. A small article entitled Come In Spinner has the title repeated in this style several times, so it's not only my opinion, logic, and MOS (as I understand it), but an eminent authority. A pity you reverted my edits but it achieved my aim. Thank you, Dan arndt, for taking it seriously. Doug butler (talk) 10:01, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 6 February 2023

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: page moved. Andrewa (talk) 11:44, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

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Come in Spinner → Come In Spinner – The title of this article should be rendered Come In Spinner, per MOS:5, as the word "in" is not functioning as a preposition, but as part of the phrasal verb to come in (a comparison could be made with the film title Carry On Constable). The phrase is common in Australia as an invitation or command in the game of two-up and can be parsed as "come in, spinner", where "spinner" is an appointed or selected official in the game. The book title is rendered Come In Spinner in at least one reputable reference, The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (Second edition) as a major topic, and in that article repeated several times; also in the separate topics Dymphna Cusack and Florence James. Doug butler (talk) 23:17, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

• Support per nom. MOS:5 states that [w]ords that have the same form as prepositions, but are not being used specifically as prepositions, should be capitalized. As "come in" is being used as a phrasal verb here, the proposed capitalization meets the guidance. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 17:32, 13 February 2023 (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.

Previous move

I note

 03:24, 9 December 2020‎ Οἶδα talk contribs block‎  76 bytes +76‎  Οἶδα moved page Come In Spinner to Come in Spinner over redirect: MOS:TITLECAPS 

which was reversed by the RM above.

I cannot help commenting that the mover on that occasion apparently did not update the non-free image rationale on the book cover image. Andrewa (talk) 11:56, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, Andrewa, that's made my day (the name change on the same basis as the current request, not the image rationale). So assuming the switch back happens shortly, all will be OK. Not that you're interested probably, but I took delivery of a DVD copy today and watched the first episode. A great piece of work. Cheers, Doug butler (talk) 12:19, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

The "switch back" had I think already happened. But I've now done a little more tidying up. This move was a bit involved owing to the merging of two talk pages... another consequence of the previous move. But I think most if not all of the cleaning up is done now. Andrewa (talk) 12:32, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

You're right, and I hadn't noticed. The DVD is styled Come in Spinner as was the ABC production, so I guess those references should be left just so. Thank you for doing the honors. Doug butler (talk) 12:40, 14 February 2023 (UTC)