Talk:Sing! (competition)

Explanation needed

Why is "SING!" capitalized if it's not an acronym? If this is a stylistic affection, it needs to be noted in the lead. For example, at entry to Marvel Comics' S.H.I.E.L.D., in a reference to the adversarial organization HYDRA, it says, "Despite that name's capitalization per Marvel's official spelling, HYDRA is not an acronym but a reference to the mythical monster, symbolizing the organization's claim of growing stronger the more it is wounded." -- Tenebrae 05:51, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't know why SING! has always been capitalized, or why the exclamation point is used, so I can't write anything verifiable about this. It's just always been done that way. (At least for the shows - you will notice the film dropped both the capitalization and the exclamation point). And thanks for the other changes you made. Simon12 14:41, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Martin Van Buren High School in Queens Village

Sing used to happen at MVBHS. I am an '85 grad and former Sing Commissioner. I think the school did away with Sing about 15 years ago. In the era of Glee, I try to explain Sing to people and they don't get it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.233.50.119 (talk) 01:25, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

A lot of Stuyvesant's 2010 Sing is up on Youtube, and I'm sure there are others up there as well. While it may not help people "get it", it at least gives an idea of what's going in. But which leads to another question. Stuyvesant's Sing has changed a lot over the years. When I was involved in the 1970's, it was basically a standard musical, with a common theme, characters and lyrics running through the show. Now it seems to have a number of individual segments, such as Step, Latin, Indian, Hip-hop, etc. Anyone know when Stuy made these changes, and have other schools gone through similar changes? Simon12 (talk) 03:39, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Just found a nice history of Sing at Stuvesant here.

Requested move 1 November 2023

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 to Sing! (competition). (non-admin closure) Jenks24 (talk) 08:28, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

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SING! → Sing! – MOS:ALLCAPS Trivialist (talk) 01:50, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

• Would need more as there are already a film and an album named Sing! in lowercase form. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:21, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
• Move to Sing! (competition) or a similar disambiguator. Agree with the nominator that MOS:ALLCAPS suggests we shouldn't retain the current title, but Randy Kryn also correctly notes that there are other titles competing for the "Sing!" spelling. Looking at the pageviews (and noting that the film was at the plain title "Sing!" until about 10 minutes before the RM began), I don't see a strong case for there being a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, so this topic should be disambiguated. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 13:41, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
• Move to Sing! (competition), Sing! (New York City), or other, per WP:NOPRIMARY and MOS:ALLCAPS. 162 etc. (talk) 17:23, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
• Move to Sing! (competition), per MOS:ALLCAPS, MOS:TM. This is not an acronym, it's just "MARKETING CAPS". I don't have an objection to the "(New York City)" disambiguator if further disambiguation is needed, though I'm not aware of another notable "Sing!" competition to disambiguate this from.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  08:03, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
• Support Sing! (competition) per all above. Dicklyon (talk) 00:05, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
• Move to Sing! (competition). As the creator of this article many years ago, I thought the SING! title was historically justified, and said so in a comment above in 2006. But looking at some of the references, capitalization was not actually used. (The exclamation point was). So losing the caps, and therefore doing the move, is fine. I would note that Sing! competitions have been held in Long Island, NY, so Sing! (New York City) does not make sense. When I created the article, I also proposed (musical) or (high school), but (competition) is fine. Simon12 (talk) 03:41, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
• Move to Sing! (competition) per SMcC (and everybody else). Cinderella157 (talk) 05:01, 6 November 2023 (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.