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A fact from Do You Believe in Magic? (book) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 November 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in the book Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine, pediatrician Paul Offit criticizes the use of vitamin C to treat the common cold?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine.

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Requested move[edit]

The following is a closed discussion 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 proposal was moved. --BDD (talk) 20:08, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine → Do You Believe in Magic? (book) – WP:SUBTITLES neither discourages nor encourages using subtitles, depending on WP:AT policy. But it discourages subtitles that make titles extremely long. To be consistent with other articles named "Do You Believe in Magic", "(book)" is needed. Of course, if a question mark is unneeded, then Do You Believe in Magic (book) will do. If the title with subtitle and the title without it are commonly used, then we should implement WP:DIVIDEDUSE and other applicable policies and guidelines like WP:CONSISTENCY. By the way, there are no other notable books of the same name, so "(book)" may be our best shot. George Ho (talk) 21:25, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Title is to long. Needs to be shortened. CookieMonster755 (talk) 02:25, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom Red Slash 05:15, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - the book is published as Killing Us Softly: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine in the UK. London Libraries only "Do You Believe in Magic" is the children's book by Saviour Pirotta. In ictu oculi (talk) 22:03, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The author is American, so the book must be American also. We can't use the British title, so we should use the American one instead. --George Ho (talk) 11:41, 30 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not suggesting a move to the UK edition, just that the move will render the article unrecognisable to many non-US readers. Wheras if we stick with the present title we have one recognisable to both US and EU readers, and also not competing with another book. User:CookieMonster755 do you still support? In ictu oculi (talk) 20:15, 30 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

They can read the lead paragraph, which contains main title and alternative title. The article title shouldn't be based on international recognition unless the topic is not a work or publication. --Gh87 in the public computer (talk) 22:18, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. 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.

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For some reason the image isn't displaying on this page. Is this happening for anyone else? Everymorning talk to me 21:43, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The image is displaying on my computer. I'm unsure if the Wikipedia server is working in your area. --George Ho (talk) 22:05, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]