Talk:Like a Virgin (book)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: Page not moved: no consensus for this proposal - contributors may want to consider proposing a different move Ground Zero | t 16:54, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

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Like a Virgin (book) → Like a Virgin: How Science Is Redesigning the Rules of Sex – WP:SUBTITLES was cited as reason for changing to the current title. However, the guideline doesn't say much about whether to use "(book)" or the subtitle. Omission of either is obviously out of option because... you have Madonna's album and song of the same name. Moreover, the current title misleads others into assuming that Madonna wrote the book, Like a Virgin: <something something>. Yes, searching the proposed title in Google leads to bigger results, but the long title is not well-remembered by journalists who used it. Journalists must have copied-and-pasted the title for their articles on their computers. You can try "like a virgin book", but the more effective search term is "like a virgin aarathi Prasad". Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 14:39, 25 August 2014 (UTC) --Relisted. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:26, 17 August 2014 (UTC) George Ho (talk) 16:32, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

• Oppose. (I moved the article to its current name.) I'm not clear on the reasons for proposing this move back—maybe I'm dense, but all I can really get from the nominator's statement is that the current name is misleading in that suggests that Madonna is the author. I don't see how that is the case. Reading WP:SUBTITLE and WP:BOOKDAB together suggests to me that the article is properly named now. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 01:07, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

• Support per nom (I think) and WP:NATURAL. —  AjaxSmack  03:11, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

• Support I agree that this could be misleading, and by policy if natural disambiguation is not possible, add a disambiguating term in parentheses. This is a natural! Secondarywaltz (talk) 04:48, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
• Oppose: Far too long, for no clear purpose. There is no Like a Virgin (Madonna book). The idea that this should be moved to a huge name because it'll be confused with an album and song is totally daffy; the entire point of "(book)", etc., disambiguations is that they're not just concise, but they do clearly distinguish the one from the other.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  13:57, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

"Concise" means brief but complete in the dictionary; never should "concise" mean "short". I don't know how conciseness policy from WP:AT should be interpreted. It says, "no longer than necessary to identify the article's subject and distinguish it from other subjects." However, what about the naturality of the current title? There is this book by Richard Branson, but the article does not yet exist. --George Ho (talk) 17:00, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

• Prefer Like a Virgin (Aarathi Prasad) Like a Virgin (Prasad book). This scholarly use of LaV (if well reviewed) diminishes the claim of Madonna's album as PT. If "Like a Virgin" means the Madonna album, then "Like a Vigin (book)" means a book about the Madonna Album. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

You mean Like a Virgin (Prasad book) per WP:NC-B? --George Ho (talk) 02:58, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Indeed, yes! Per Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)#Standard_disambiguation "Shortcut WP:BOOKDAB". Oh how I dislike the proliferation of excessive clumsy shortcuts. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 07:17, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

And to be disambiguated from Like a Virgin (Branson book). Branson's is actually better reviewed than Prasad's. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 07:20, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

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