# Talk:Belgium in the long nineteenth century

I saw this title, and read further, wondering whether the Nineteenth Century was longer than most (irony).  Only when I read the introduction to this article did I discover that the term comes from someone's book by that name.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Terry Thorgaard (talk • contribs) 16:02, 21 April 2014 (UTC) 

I'm not quite sure I understand your point, but if you're arguing the title should be "Belgium in the Long Nineteenth Century" (with capitals), I think that's covered by Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization). I'm not too good at grammar, but I don't believe that "Long nineteenth century" is a proper noun. Brigade Piron (talk) 17:51, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
Quoting from Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization), to which you linked, "In general, each word in English titles of books, films, and other works takes an initial capital, except..."  The noun phrase is, as I understand it, the title of a book, so it should be so capitalized.   Terry Thorgaard (talk) 17:12, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
Still not sure I understand. The "long nineteenth century" is an academic concept, created to make the usual arbitrary periodization (based on century) a little less arbitrary, not a title of any sort. My point above still stands, I think - the first phrase in bold is "Do not capitalize the second or subsequent words in an article title, unless the title is a proper noun". If this isn't a proper noun (which I don't think it is), it therefore shouldn't be capitalised...Brigade Piron (talk) 17:45, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Whay do we have France in the long nineteenth century but Belgium in "the long nineteenth century"? Why do we have Dutch Golden Age but not Dutch "Golden Age"? I'm guessing it's because the pages on France and the Netherlands have heavier traffic so bizarre personal quirks don't stand as much chance of becoming established. Who can move this back to a sensible page name? --Andreas Philopater (talk) 07:55, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

@Andreas Philopater, Brigade Piron,  and Terry Thorgaard: I've opened a move request below. Tagging you since you discussed this previously. 〜 Festucalex • talk 14:15, 27 May 2023 (UTC)