Talk:Spice Up Your Life

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This redirect is protected from editing because it has been the target of cut-and-paste move vandalism. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 13:24, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

I've removed the article from this page; this is a talk page, and articles should not be created here. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:33, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

If anyone is vandalising, it is none other than the person who posted the previous two messages. DrippingInk 23:25, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

"The original release-date of "Spice Up Your Life" was delayed for seven days to allow Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" to spend another week at the top of the charts" smells of PR-speak.

Does it really mean "it was delayed so that it would enter the charts at number 1 instead of number 2 as it was feared it would have had it been entered the previous week?" Morwen - Talk 08:14, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Yes, you are correct. Winnermario 21:21, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was no consensus for moving. --Dijxtra 11:44, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Requested move

Spice Up Your Life → Spice up Your Life – Proper capitalization -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 20:25, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey

Add "* Support" or "* Oppose" followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~

  • Oppose, "up", while short like "a" or "the", is not an article like those words and should be capitalized. Recury 17:50, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Have you seen this? Please read the naming conventions. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 15:23, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose - The word "up" in this context is not being used as a preposition, but as an adverb. It's different from "Sailing up the Thames" or something, where "up the Thames" is a prepositional phrase modifying "Sailing". In this case, the verb is actually "Spice Up" and "Your Life" is the object of that verb. It's more like Roll Over Beethoven. Actually, a very illustrative example is Carry On up the Khyber, with "On" capitalized as part of the verb, and "up" lower-case, as a preposition. -GTBacchus(talk) 00:23, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

[edit] Sources and cleanup needed

There are no sources for any of the statements in the article. Chart positions, trajectories, sales data, etc. all need sources. Also, many statements are quite slanted. Things like "the song received an overwhelmingly positive initial reaction" and the fact that the video is supposedly "considered by many to rank among the Spice Girls' best" is just not very encyclopedic, not to mention weasely. For such a long page, considering it's for a song, i'm surprised that there are no sources, and that's it's been left in this condition for so long. SKS2K6 09:10, 3 March 2007 (UTC)