Thread:RRabbit42/@comment-3477287-20140723152547/@comment-3477287-20140803233126

Yeah, I'm not sure why you decided to include song titles as a whole here. The only thing I wanted to discuss was the song italics. I couldn't care less about capitalization. So, uh, I'm just gonna skip paragraphs 3 and 4.

Back to song italics, I don't see why songs shouldn't follow the standardized rules established by grammar authorities. When we italicize tv shows, books, movies, albums, video games, then I don't see why songs should be any different in using quotation marks.

I am well aware that each wiki is free to choose for themselves. This isn't my first rodeo. I am a bureaucrat on two other wikis, after all. Even in this wiki, I reprimanded a user for trying to apply Wikipedia's CSD policy here. Like I told that man (paraphrased): "this isn't wikipedia. That rule does not apply here". Wikia isn't the only place I work with, you know?

However, this goes beyond that. This is not a issue about wikis or websites, but an issue regarding grammar itself. It is as you say, the ruleset is still being hotly debated. But I believe that when it comes to punctuating songs, quotation marks are agreed on by the majority, if not universally. This is the reason I decided to mention those high-profile wikis.

So what should we do? What I plan to do should be pretty clear by now. All that's left is authorization. Do you agree that we should switch them, or are you still on the fence? If you agree, then I can correct every song right now. Or would you prefer creating a forum first, since such a change to the MOS usually requires input from the entire community?