Talk:Pennsylvania 6-5000 (song)

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Capitalization of this article title[edit]

At 00:14, 29 December 2014‎, Nyttend moved page Pennsylvania 6-5000 (song) to PEnnsylvania 6-5000 (song) with move description "See PEnnsylvania 6-5000, plus the item pictured in File:Pennsylvania 6-5000 Glenn Miller Robbins 1940.jpg". Nyttend is correct that the image, Glenn Miller's original sheet music, shows the capitalization "PEnnsylvania 6-5000". I do not agree with Nyttend that this article and the telephone number article necessarily have to have the same capitalization.

At 09:33, 30 December 2014‎, User:Richhoncho moved page PEnnsylvania 6-5000 (song) to Pennsylvania 6-5000 (song) over redirect with the description "capitalization as per image". Richhoncho's justification for reversion, "capitalization as per image" does not make sense, because the image mentioned shows "PEnnsylvania 6-5000". The article also includes the image File:Pa65000.jpg, which shows the label of the 1940 RCA Bluebird 78, B-10754-A, by Glenn Miller, with the title in all caps: "PENNSYLVANIA SIX-FIVE THOUSAND"; obviously, we are not going to title this article that way. — Anomalocaris (talk) 17:52, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the "Alphabetic mnemonic system" section of Telephone numbers in the United States. This very song is used as one of its examples in explaining telephone-number capitalisation. What's more, this re-move causes the articles to be out of sync: why should we have Pennsylvania 6-5000 (song) when the phone number itself has an article at PEnnsylvania 6-5000 still? Nyttend (talk) 18:13, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The article should be at PEnnsylvania 6-5000 (song). To the arguments above, I add my personal recollection that, back when phone numbers took this form, it was standard to capitalize the first two letters of the name of the exchange. JamesMLane t c 19:29, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]