Talk:Shake Hands with Beef

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Shouldn't the title be "Shake Hands with Beef" per Wikipedia's naming conventions, as in Tales From Topographic Oceans becomes Tales from Topographic Oceans, with the lesser word in lower case? There are a lot of song articles like this with this problem... pedantic, I know.--HisSpaceResearch 12:13, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Meanings section?

Can we get rid of this crap? It sounds like a bunch of original research, especially considering that the one official explanation I remember reading back in the day is not mentioned. Hopefully someone more resourceful than I can find the interview where one of the band members is telling the story about a vegetarian friend who would, once in a while, eat a big, juicy steak, and somebody had the name for it: shaking hands with beef. It could've been BS made up by the band to throw people off, but it sounds a lot more believable than the "shaking hands with someone you have a 'beef' with" idea. Funkeboy (talk) 03:57, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Requested move 24 March 2026

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: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 02:57, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

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Shake Hands with Beef → Shake Hands With BeefShake Hands With Beef – It is commonly known that songs are written with all letters in the title capitalized. It is even written as such at the beginning of the article. I tried to move this page myself, but the article was already a redirect, so it did not work. Dr. Precursor (talk) 01:17, 24 March 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 01:32, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose per MOS:TITLECAPS. Paprikaiser (talk) 20:27, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose. Yes, prepositions with up to four letters aren't capitalized per MOS:TITLECAPS, so the page name is fine as it is. Gawaon (talk) 07:03, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
• Note that the single cover lowercases 'with'. I'd usually side with uppercasing but in this instance the lowercased styling coincides with the styling used during the song's release. Randy Kryn (talk) 10:45, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Oppose as "with" is a preposition and I'm fairly certain doesn't qualify for the MOS:TITLECAPS exception.

Also you shouldn't move an article yourself if you think it might be controversial, which this one was, but if you run into the same situation again with the inability to move a page, and you do think it's uncontroversial, you can use WP:RMTR to file a technical move request. ⹃Maltazarian ^{ᚾparley$\lor$investigateᛅ} 09:25, 2 April 2026 (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.