Talk:Don't You (Forget About Me)

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[edit] About vs. about

WP doesn't seem to have a convention about whether words like "about" get capitalized in titles, which is annoying. However, if you Google "don't you forget about me," you'll find that in that title "about" is almost universally capitalized. Since common usage is supposed to be the key to WP naming conventions, can we please put it back the way it was? Nareek 19:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Prepositions in song titles shouldn't be capitalised. See Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Album_titles_and_band_names. Extraordinary Machine 19:16, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Well, that is a convention--a silly convention, since it puts Wikipedia at odds with every other entity that writes about this song. But so be it. Nareek 19:59, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I've moved it back. This is pretty ridiculous. Mike Dillon 01:20, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Before you start throwing words like "silly" and "ridiculous" around, please read Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Album_titles_and_band_names, which is official policy. If you want to suggest a change to it, leave a message at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions. Extraordinary Machine 13:36, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the pointer. I read that "official policy" when you linked to it the first time and I continue to think it's ridiculous. I felt the same way when I initially read it, before I saw your link and re-read it. However, I'm not going to provoke any further conflict by moving this page back to a reasonable title again. I don't have time to get involved in a naming "policy" debate. (I hope there isn't a policy against putting "policy" in quotes) Mike Dillon 08:08, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
I actually am giving changing the policy a try. We'll see how it turns out. Nareek 01:41, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

As it's been about six weeks since the policy has been changed, I'm going to change the name back now--per Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Album_titles_and_band_names. Nareek 04:17, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Omissions

This article does not discuss Bouncing Souls's mediocre cover of this song. Also, I recall that this song appeared in an episode of The Simpsons. Dave Foster 07:41, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Misc

I was looking for the artist, but was surprised to find it deep in the second paragraph.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:SimpleMindsDon'tyou.jpg

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[edit] Sign zee paperzz

Long ago co-writer Steve Schiff told me he was pressed by Forsey (at the time of the writings) to sign a "work for hire" type agreement, which essentially would have not provided him with royalties. Apparently Schiff delayed signing the agreement papers, the song came out, and he was apparently by default, a legal "co-writer." My point is: Hollywood is full of bad deals waiting for you to sign them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99duhs (talk • contribs) 17:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)