Talk:Step by Step (TV series)

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[edit] Identity of amusement park in opening credits

Does anyone know the name of the amusement park that was shown in the opening credits? I was hoping to find this out in this article, but unfortunately came up disappointed. SchuminWeb (Talk) 06:00, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Never mind, found out that it's Six Flags Magic Mountain. SchuminWeb (Talk) 06:06, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] That Buster Postcard Section at the end

Can anyone... make any coherent sense of that? I don't know what on Earth they're talking about in that section.


i was going to post the same thing, but clearly i'm not the only one who thinks it's nonsense.

It's crap. I removed it. 71.68.70.236 10:23, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rename to "Step By Step"

I've put in a proposed move to rename this article from "Step by Step" (lowercase "b") to "Step By Step" (uppercase "B"). This matches the on-screen title of the show. Thoughts? SchuminWeb (Talk) 02:27, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Done. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 09:42, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Back-and-forth renaming

Folks, please, let's leave the article at Step By Step (capital "B"). This is how it's formatted in the show's on-screen title, and so it seems more correct than the other version with a lowercase "b". SchuminWeb (Talk) 02:31, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) states "In general, titles of books, films, and other works are also capitalized, except for articles (a, and, the) and prepositions and conjunctions shorter than five letters (e.g., to, from, and)." Extraordinary Machine 15:30, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
My question then becomes, what if the producers of said work capitalized such words themselves in a title? Do we follow naming conventions to the letter which makes the title incorrect, or do we use the capitalization as used in the work itself? SchuminWeb (Talk) 23:26, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
I don't think it's very wise to suppose that the show's producers believed the capitalisation of every single word in the title was absolutely necessary. It's just as likely that the show's production company's manual of style suggests capitals for all words (including prepositions) in titles, in which case that's "correct" for them; ours doesn't, which is thus "correct" for us. The one thing that we know for certain is what standard Wikipedia style (which follows what is stipulated in most major manuals of style) is, which is why it's best and safest to use it. As Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) says, "Because credibility is a primary objective in the creation of any reference work, and because Wikipedia strives to become a leading (if not the) leading reference work in its genre, formality and an adherence to conventions widely used in the genre are critically important to credibility." If you have evidence to suggest the reason that "by" was capitalised is unrelated to the style preferences of whoever created the title card, then please provide it. Extraordinary Machine 15:43, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I moved this to Step by Step (television)

Because Step by Step is too US-centred. People who live outside the US don't necessarily think that the television series is well known enough to warrant main use of that Wikipedia title. --Barfoos 22:43, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:48, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
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