Talk:Don't Eat the Yellow Snow

Song list

Should this be counted on the song list or not? I know it's 4 songs...but do suites count as songs? --Mrmoustache14 (talk) 20:07, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

If you're referring to the list on Template:Frank Zappa, sure. Not only is it called "other compositions", not "songs", but either way the purpose of that list is to list all articles on Zappa compositions. --Mystery Roach (talk) 11:26, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Requested move 1 June 2018

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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: consensus to move the page to the proposed title at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 17:22, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

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Don't Eat the Yellow Snow Suite → Don't Eat the Yellow Snow – The current title appears to be a made-up name; neither the album nor the single say anything about a "suite". The article provides no explanation for why what is presented as four individual songs performed in a medley format should be regarded as a single work, much less why the title of this work is "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow Suite". Martin IIIa (talk) 15:38, 1 June 2018 (UTC)--Relisting. –Ammarpad (talk) 05:15, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

• I could add these citations that call it a suite:

https://books.google.com/books?id=uAYfqgGf4yYC&pg=PA5&dq=Don%27t+Eat+the+Yellow+Snow+Suite&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLo4PGp7PbAhVNnlkKHfHBBnYQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=Don't%20Eat%20the%20Yellow%20Snow%20Suite&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=hy_U8_CJ1VIC&pg=PA5&dq=%22Don%27t+Eat+the+Yellow+Snow+Suite%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjp5Jbmp7PbAhUJx1kKHXL3BZEQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=%22Don't%20Eat%20the%20Yellow%20Snow%20Suite%22&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=hX1MBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA10&dq=Don%27t+Eat+the+Yellow+Snow+Suite&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLo4PGp7PbAhVNnlkKHfHBBnYQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=Don't%20Eat%20the%20Yellow%20Snow%20Suite&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=HiI9AQAAIAAJ&q=%22Don%27t+Eat+the+Yellow+Snow+Suite%22&dq=%22Don%27t+Eat+the+Yellow+Snow+Suite%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjp5Jbmp7PbAhUJx1kKHXL3BZEQ6AEIODAD

Among many others. Take your pick. Mrmoustache14 (talk) 20:34, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

• Support. Allmusic.com explains "'Don't Eat the Yellow Snow' is both the title of a suite and of its first part."[1] As the cites above make clear, "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" as described in our article definitely is a suite, but the word "Suite" is not part of the title. Since we don't (and shouldn't) have a separate article about just the first track, there's no need to have the word "Suite" in the article title (although if we did, it should be lower case). Station1 (talk) 00:02, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

What if we renamed it to "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow (suite)" ? As the person who named the initial article I thought that just naming it "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" would cause people to think it's only about the opening track. Mrmoustache14 (talk) 00:44, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

That would be better than the current title, but per WP:PRECISE we don't need to add parenthetical disambiguation where it isn't necessary. It is possible someone looking at just the title might think of just the first track, but as soon as they read the first few words of the article, they'll know it's about the suite too. And the current title will remain as a redirect. Station1 (talk) 00:50, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

• Support. If we needed to disambiguate, this would call for a parenthetic disambiguation, same as with a song, novel, movie, or other work.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  17:42, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
• Support Rreagan007 (talk) 16:39, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

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Nanook of the North

This article would benefit from a suitable reference linking the Nanook in the song to the 1922 film Nanook of the North, which is a source of many stereotypical depictions of Eskimo life in popular culture.Design (talk) 03:45, 8 June 2020 (UTC)