Talk:Richard Nixon's November 1962 press conference

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I caught myself after I moved it. Do reliable sources refers to this as his "Last Press Conference" or "last press conference"? Simply because he calls it that doesn't make it sufficient for a title. Perhaps Richard Nixon November 1962 press conference? Grsz¹¹ 18:00, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I have found sources that use capitals, but the most common usage appears to be quotation marks, to identify that it was called his last press conference, but it was certainly not the last such meeting with the media. Alansohn (talk) 17:32, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Requested move 26 February 2017

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The result of the move request was: moved to Richard Nixon's November 1962 press conference. More support for this version. (non-admin closure) feminist 07:22, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

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Richard Nixon's last press conference → Richard Nixon's "last press conference" – or something similar. The current title doesn't really make much sense; this isn't something officially called "Richard Nixon's last press conference", so you'd assume it'd be a description of the thing. But obviously ol' Tricky Dick went on to do many many many more press conferences. If anyone saw the current title, they'd assume it'd be about his last press conference, not that time he did a press conference and said it would be his last one. Nohomersryan (talk) 06:40, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

• Support per nomination. A 2009 suggestion, above, that a more apt title would be Richard Nixon's November 1962 press conference, may be taken into consideration. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 07:42, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
• Support move. I personally feel the dated version gives a more encyclopedic tone than the somewhat-ironic quotes, but if sources use "last press conference" then that would seem to be WP:COMMONNAME. – Reidgreg (talk) 19:33, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
• Neutral - WP:TITLEFORMAT normally discourages quotation marks. WP:COMMONNAMES does not mention the usage of punctuations. I'm not confident that adding the quotation marks benefits most readers, especially ones who would type words without the quotation marks. However, seems that multiple sources use quotation marks to indicate Nixon's quote. Here are sources from 2010s below (excluding quotes from Nixon):

W/ Quotation marks: book about Washington Journal's coverage on Nixon, A Companion to Richard M. Nixon, (also using title casing), humor book, Fortune, NY Post , Seattle PI, Pattaya Mail, Daily Caller, Rasmussen Reports, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, probably more...

W/o the marks: book about drinks served(?) to US Presidents, New Yorker

Interchangeable: (probably from 2009?)

George Ho (talk) 18:01, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

"you don't have Nixon to kick around any more" or "you won't have Nixon to kick around any more"

He stumbles across the word slightly in the speech, so it's hard to be sure, however, https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2017/11/55-years-ago-last-press-conference/ uses "won't" and includes a transcript of the speech that uses "won't" Thisdaytrivia (talk) 18:57, 23 September 2018 (UTC)