Talk:Changing of the Guard

Redirects are my friends, but where?

What's the official title, here? Should it be The Changing of the Guard, Changing of the guard, Changing of the Guard (my fave) or what? Howard? Hayford? Anyone?

Not doing that subpages thing until we're decided, 'cause they're just too blasted hard to move.

Aleta Curry 20:19, 13 August 2008 (CDT)

"Yhe" should not be part of the indexing of a title, perhaps with exceptions for films, books, etc. "Thing, The" would be wrong as the title -- by all means use "Thing, the" as the sort field, but "The Thing" was the name of a specific film.

The CZ convention seems to emphasize lower case even when it's not commonly used; I particularly like to capitalize titles to show the derivation of the usual acronym: I used Emergency position indicating radio beacon usually called EPIRB, and, given my choice, I would have capitalized the keywords in the article name.

Thinking about the specific example, however, Arlington National Cemetery's website uses "The Changing of the Guard" (http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/ceremonies/sentinelsotu.html). When I lived nearby, we tended to speak of the "ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns"; if you said "Changing of the Guard" to me, I'd think Buckingham Palace; in local conversation, there was always a reference to the Tomb, the Unknowns, or both. In other words, I'd look for the ceremony not under "Changing of the Guard", but "Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers"

There actually are a number of military terms for a change of sentinels, such as "Guard mount" Howard C. Berkowitz 20:47, 13 August 2008 (CDT)

Given CZ conventions, and other factors as noted above, I myself would call the article Changing of the guard. If it were a particular song by Hank Williams, say, called The Changing of the Guard (Means You'll Take These Leg Irons from My Heart), that would be different.... Hayford Peirce 21:29, 13 August 2008 (CDT)

There are times and places for such songs. While a research volunteer at NIH Clinical Center, I objected strenuously to the musical choice by the senior invasive cardiologist, a C&W fan. Specifically, "Achy Breaky Heart" was not quite the mood music for an experimental procedure during a cardiac catheterization. The English cardiology fellow, who was actually doing the procedure, and I jointly retaliated by discussing the status of my myocardium in terms of Norwegian Blue Parrots. Howard C. Berkowitz 21:40, 13 August 2008 (CDT)