oppose the current title is overwhelmingly preferred by the policy of using the most common name and the manual of style specifically encourages editor discretion the mos is great for our writing style and when the official or common name might be unknown but to argue that it should be used to take an official name with a specifically chosen title that is used by the absolutely overwhelming majority of reliable sources including books newspapers and websites as well as is the generally common name is fairly absurd our title guidelines and policies are unfortunately somewhat murky but what it comes down to can be gleaned from wikipedia naming conventions capitalization which states that an adherence to conventions widely used in the genre are critically important to credibility if billboard is using a style and rolling stone or the new york times or spin or just the bulk of reliable sourcing in general largely use the official title is it really common sense for us to be saying we shouldn't be following the sources here in order to somehow adhere to conventions and gain credibility wikipedia is a unique construct in that our work is so clearly tied and based off of reliable sourcing about the subject making us stand out and go against the grain here just doesn't make much sense there's also just the general notion which certainly should not be the deciding factor in finding consensus that certain lowercase words just look weird in titles perhaps this may give some indication as to why like and other or more letter words are very often capitalized in composition titles but words like a to or and often aren't let's chat