Talk:Billiards at Half-Past Nine

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The city in which the novel is never actually named and of the suburbs Kissingen, Doderingen and Denklingen, only the last is easily found on a map (it's part of Reichshof). I dont remember the #11 tram: is that an actual ride? Köln does have a romanesque St. Severin church on Severinstraße; does the neigborhood otherwise correspond to the novel's description? Sparafucil (talk) 10:22, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: moved. Unopposed. Jenks24 (talk) 02:07, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

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Billiards at Half-past Nine → Billiards at Half-Past Nine – "Half-Past" is not a preposition in this title; it is an adjective. Shall we uppercase "Past" per WP:NCCAPS and first edition of the novel? George Ho (talk) 23:33, 24 August 2015 (UTC) Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 20:17, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

• Comment Is there a capitalization convention concerning hyphenated words on Wikipedia? It is a common (though not universal) practice not to capitalize secondary (etc.) words in hyphenated terms unless that word is a proper noun (like "Twenty-one Conditions"); and some words would simply not do to be capitalized mid-hyphen, like the British spellings "Co-operation" and "Pre-emptive" (imagine "Co-Operation" and "Pre-Emptive"!). It seems to me that capitalizations like "Twenty-one Conditions" are generally seen as more formal or elegant, whereas double capitalization is more informal and, therefore, more widespread. — the Man in Question (in question) 00:26, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

There is MOS:CT, the Man in Question, but it encourages uppercasing hyphenated terms (unless reliable sources consistently lowercase them otherwise). E.g. Half-Past, Half Past, Half-past. --George Ho (talk) 03:03, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

• Comment the hyphenation, or 'compounding' seems more relevant than the part of speech. I find NOT double capitalising more natural, but cannot quote a policy to back that up. Pincrete (talk) 21:17, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
• Support. If in doubt, follow the sources. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 08:04, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

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Manskybook (talk) 05:22, 7 February 2021 (UTC) Having recently read the book, I find the term "flashbacks" inadequate to describe the novelistic structure. The structure is recursive -- present and past introduced, and later expounded by each of several characters in turn. As characters are introduced, they address the current time, in most cases, and/or describe past events related to the arc of the story. Each character either tells the tale, or is part of the events of these lives. Each details the story, or provides a particular point-of-view. Robert Faehmel is the central character, but much of the story is told by his father, grandmother, son, and includes friends and associations from his life. It's reductive to put a chronological frame of "flashback" for any of the stories, because they all inform the present. I'd suggest reframing "flashbacks" as recursive narrative.