Talk:Bebe Stores

message: Bébé (bay-bay)? Beeb? Ummm... beh-beh? I have no idea, and it always kind of bugs me when I walk by the store, and I was kind of hoping wikipedia could tell me. Does someone want to do me a favour and add an accepted pronunciation (try to have some good reason for thinking yours is right.)
:From Bebe FAQ  "Q: How do you pronounce the name of your company? What does bebe mean?  A: It is pronounced "bee-bee." .. The name bebe was selected because it represented the philosophy of the time ("to be or not to be") as well as other multilingual meanings including the Persian name for the queen in a deck of cards and the Turkish word for woman."Jvandyke 03:06, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation?

message: Why isn't the title to this article simply Bebe?  In malls the store is called bebe, not bebe stores, so why is there a store in the title?  --Vincentanton 18:20, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article title is correct.  The parent company is 'bebe stores'.  It operates the bebe, BEBE SPORT and 'bebe O' stores.Jvandyke 20:46, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I should add the the title should be 'bebe stores' (all lower case), not 'Bebe Stores' (uppercased first and second words). I'll correct.Jvandyke 20:49, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  The title of the article is a violation of the WP:MOSTM guideline for article names and should be moved to Bebe stores (instead of relying on the initial cap redirection). 12.208.10.7 (talk) 03:07, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

text: Hello, Ariadavid.  Please take a look at this, which is part of our manual of style, something all articles should follow.  It says, "For trademarks that are given in mixed or non-capitalization by their owners (such as adidas), follow standard English text formatting and capitalization rules for proper nouns (in this case, Adidas). The mixed or non-capitalized formatting should be mentioned in the article lead, or illustrated with a graphical logo."  The rules about the article title are slightly different, as you can see in the requested move below, but in the end that's supposed to be capitalized here too, I think.  The article mentions that Bebe is stylized bebe, shows the lowercase logo, and uses uppercase in the text, like the manual of style suggests.  So no, I don't think that it is "incorrect and erroneous" to use uppercase in the article.  AgnosticAphid talk 07:03, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

text: Also see this, which has a bit more detail.  In general, I think the idea is that if we use capital letters it's easier for readers because they're expecting to encounter a capital letter when they read a proper noun.  But I'm not a Manual of Style expert.  AgnosticAphid talk 07:19, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect title? 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Gn logo bebe a.gif

message: It would be appropriate to discuss Neda Mashouf's role in creating the Bebe look and in the success of the company.
Spope3 (talk) 03:38, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neda Mashouf