Capitalization of "Of" at the End of a Title

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The title that brings me here today is Roulette Dares (The Haunt of).

Should “of” really be lowercase as it currently is? I think it should be “Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)” because “of” is at the end of the title. It seems that others have been convinced otherwise: Edit #68408978 / Edit #56018729 / Edit #42306390

I think this would be the same as if an album was called The Best Of. If I understand English title capitalization rules correctly, it’d be wrong to enter it as The Best of because the last word in a title should always be capitalized, even if it were The Best Of… Of course, the following would be correct: The Best of Band A or The (Best of) Band A.

Thanks in advance for your input, fellow style/grammar nerds.

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looks like on the CD case it’s all lowercase so that doesn’t help much…

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Note that the “guess case” button uncapitalises it, which might be where some of the confusion is coming from.

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Following the English Style guidelines, I would say the “of” should be capitalized.

(1) Always capitalize the first and last word of a title. This rule should be followed even if the words would normally be lowercase according to the other rules. If a title is broken up by major punctuation (colon according to subtitle style, question mark, exclamation mark, em-dash, parentheses, or quotes), capitalize each distinct piece of the title as if it were a distinct title. Therefore, for example, always capitalize the first and last words of each section.

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As you mentioned, it has been changed back and forth a few times. I suggest, if you make the edit, make sure to explain in your edit note that you’re following the guidelines, and link to the style guideline page.

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I think @reosarevok is rewriting the Guess Case function. He may be able to catch the “last word capitalised” guideline in his improvements.

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@ibitsu
Your other edit, changing “Tírame” to “tira me,” is causing some doubt for me. This is another edit that has been reversed a couple of times in the Edit History. In Edit #40341466, the editor says that “Tírame” is correct. I’m no expert on the language, but I think that’s true. The Style Guideline says we should correct such errors, even if the release printing is wrong, unless we have strong evidence that the error is artistic intent.

I think I would leave the track/recording title as “Tírame a las arañas,” and add “Tire me a las arañas” as an alias.

Thoughts?

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Yes, Tírame is the correct word in Spanish. It is misspelled as “Tira me” on all releases, but I forgot about our error correction style guideline. I doubt it’s any sort of artistic intent, so I agree with your suggestion. Thanks for your input on that!

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