Talk:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
What's in a name?: Reply
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:::::::::::Of course the forum to decide an article's name is the article's talk page. Still, I find it grating to read in WAM's biography about "his works, notably ''The Magic Flute''" – he knew no such thing. Redirects have a purpose. -- [[User:Michael Bednarek|Michael Bednarek]] ([[User talk:Michael Bednarek|talk]]) 07:37, 18 April 2026 (UTC) |
:::::::::::Of course the forum to decide an article's name is the article's talk page. Still, I find it grating to read in WAM's biography about "his works, notably ''The Magic Flute''" – he knew no such thing. Redirects have a purpose. -- [[User:Michael Bednarek|Michael Bednarek]] ([[User talk:Michael Bednarek|talk]]) 07:37, 18 April 2026 (UTC) |
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::::::::::: I agree with Michael Bednarek: while the article title has to be the common name, the sentence "Mozart composed ''The Magic Flute''." is nonsense, - he composed ''Die Zauberflöte''. Please restore, with English in brackets if we have to. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 07:55, 18 April 2026 (UTC) |
::::::::::: I agree with Michael Bednarek: while the article title has to be the common name, the sentence "Mozart composed ''The Magic Flute''." is nonsense, - he composed ''Die Zauberflöte''. Please restore, with English in brackets if we have to. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 07:55, 18 April 2026 (UTC) |
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:::::::::@[[User:JackofOz|JackofOz]] I strongly agree with this. The guiding principle in referring to topics on which we have an article should be to use the name of our article, which has been determined by WP:COMMON NAME. [[User:Furius|Furius]] ([[User talk:Furius|talk]]) 06:11, 19 April 2026 (UTC) |
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::::::::I agree that consistency within an article is important, but I don't think this needs consistency across every composer. For both productions and in academia it's much more common to see ''The Magic Flute'' instead of ''Die Zauberflote'' etc., at least in my remembered experience. It also seems a bit perverse to use the non-English names when the article titles are all in English, presumably because they're the [[WP:COMMONNAME]] in the Anglosphere. [[User:Ligaturama|Ligaturama]] ([[User talk:Ligaturama|talk]]) 22:52, 17 April 2026 (UTC) |
::::::::I agree that consistency within an article is important, but I don't think this needs consistency across every composer. For both productions and in academia it's much more common to see ''The Magic Flute'' instead of ''Die Zauberflote'' etc., at least in my remembered experience. It also seems a bit perverse to use the non-English names when the article titles are all in English, presumably because they're the [[WP:COMMONNAME]] in the Anglosphere. [[User:Ligaturama|Ligaturama]] ([[User talk:Ligaturama|talk]]) 22:52, 17 April 2026 (UTC) |
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:::::::::You sold me. [[User:Charlie Faust|Charlie Faust]] ([[User talk:Charlie Faust|talk]]) 23:18, 17 April 2026 (UTC) |
:::::::::You sold me. [[User:Charlie Faust|Charlie Faust]] ([[User talk:Charlie Faust|talk]]) 23:18, 17 April 2026 (UTC) |
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