Talk:Till You're Gone
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 | On 7 August 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from 'Till You're Gone to Till You're Gone. The result of the discussion was moved. |
Requested move 7 August 2024
[edit]- The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. Moved to Till You're Gone per consensus. (non-admin closure) Waqar💬 08:29, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
'Till You're Gone → 'Til You're Gone – or Till You're Gone. The article cites four sources. Three of them (all four are from Billboard, unfortunately) are online sources, and none of those use a double L. The track listing for the album on AllMusic uses a double L, but it doesn't have the apostrophe. AllMusic seems to have song entries for both 'Til You're Gone and Till You're Gone, but not 'Till You're Gone. Including both an apostrophe and a double L seems strange. — BarrelProof (talk) 22:52, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support move to Till You're Gone. This song can't seem to make up its mind what it's actually called. One pressing of the 45 uses "'Til", another uses "'Till" (which is also how it's listed in the Joel Whitburn book). It's listed as "'Til" in back issues of Billboard when it was on the charts. Licensed uploads (iTunes, CD Baby, YouTube, etc.) use "Till". However, to me, the clincher is that it's officially listed as "Till You're Gone" on ASCAP. This, combined with contemporary usage of "Till", would suggest that's the official spelling or at least the most commonly used one. However, I think there's also enough usage of "'Til" to warrant that spelling as a redirect.
- Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 21:48, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Made some typographical adjustments for readability; hope you don't mind. Thanks for the comments. — BarrelProof (talk) 22:00, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support either, happy to go with Till You're Gone mainly as the one that one other prefers, I'd have a slight preference for that myself as less complicated for some text processors to handle. Having both the apostrophe and the double L together makes no sense grammatically, and seems to be the rarest in sources. Andrewa (talk) 07:31, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.