In other words, are love theme, staff roll, sad theme, opening credits, entracte background music, Bob’s theme, battle theme, alternate ending credits music, crippled man theme, really titles?
The third example is different from the first two, “first season” is definitely not a title and I would put it in lowercase. The first two I think I would uppercase.
Are you saying that ETI = descriptive title? That’s not really what the guideline says.
I agree in most cases, but I think it’s often more akin to “unofficial titles”
If the track is widely known under an unofficial name, you can use that name between square brackets (conforming to the Capitalization Standard) as track name instead.
For example, Imperial March has many recordings simply titled “Darth Vader’s Theme” but as far as I am aware the official title is “The Imperial March”
On the other hand I think the “love theme” from Superman and the “first season” information of the Twilight Zone main title, are indeed closer to ETI as you suggest.
As I’m sure you see, the actual works are stored in the database accordingly. In fact, the style guideline does not specify how the titles should be capitalized. I’m not sure how ETI-in-the-disambiguation would normally be handled, I don’t think there are any guidelines for that. I assume it would fall back to the same guidelines as titles but it’s not clear.
There is But that doesn’t help if people find the stuff directly from the wiki, which still shows the last version anyway. No worries, anyway, just for the future!
But if the “descriptive title” is really a common alternative title, would that then not belong simply in the list of aliases, and not duplicated in the disambig? Especually since primary aliases show up (or used to) in search results.
Yeah, in this case, I’d definitely also expect it to be an alias. But since aliases don’t show on searches, sometimes the disambiguation might be needed too if it’s a very common name.
It should not be a primary alias if it’s not the primary name
