Talk:Donkey punch (cocktail)

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On 21 August 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved to Donkey Punch (cocktail). The result of the discussion was not moved.

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Requested move 21 August 2022

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: half and half. Per consensus, moved: Donkey Punch (disambiguation); not moved: Donkey punch (cocktail). (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 11:50, 28 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

– According to the recipe appended as the article's inline cite, the drink has a proper name rendered with an uppercase "P". Since all disambiguation page entries, other than the putative WP:PRIMARYTOPIC and the Donkey puncher redirect to Steam donkey, would be using an uppercase "P", Donkey Punch can stand alone as the dab page main title header, rather than serve as a redirect to Donkey punch. — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 06:31, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support 2nd, no comment on 1st. No primary topic for the capitalized version per WP:DIFFCAPS, 4,646 views for the this one but 1,744 for the 2008 film and 374 for the 2005 one[[1]]. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:00, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose the first move per WP:NCCAPS/WP:MOSCAPS. The International Bartenders Association has different capitalisation rules from Wikipedia. This issue has come up in relatively recent move requests at Talk:Long Island iced tea and Talk:Black and tan. (In case donkey punch is sui generis, I initiated a separate discussion at WT:MOSCAPS to get input on the issue in general.) I am agnostic on the second move. — AjaxSmack 19:09, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the first move per AjaxSmack. Linguistically speaking, this is not a proper name. It is also not a trademark name. It's more like Club sandwich, Five-card stud, Field hockey or Viennese waltz. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 19:52, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above. 162 etc. (talk) 20:59, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Mainly per AjaxSmack and BarrelProof. Donkey punch is a punch. punch is a category of drinks. Cinderella157 (talk) 02:46, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"Fruit punch", with a lowercase "p", is a generic descriptive name — a punch made from fruit. "Donkey Punch (cocktail)", with an uppercase "P", is not a generic descriptive name — it is the name of a specific "(cocktail)". —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 19:43, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It is a punch. It is made specific to refer to a particular punch because the root noun is being modified by an attributive noun "donkey". Specificity is not ipso facto a rationale for capitalisation. Cinderella157 (talk) 22:40, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Ditto. Here goes a regurgitated version of something I noted here:

User:Roman Spinner mentioned "donkey punch" being "the name of a specific [cocktail]", but a better term would be that it is "the name of a type of cocktail". Use pens and grammar here to form an analogy: "Pens are for writing." – generic; "I have a pen on my desk." – specific but indefinite; "The pen on my desk doesn't write." – specific and definite. Whether generic or specific or definite or indefinite, pen remains an uncapitalised common noun. I can replace "pen" with a type of pen (e.g. ballpoint pen, quill, fudepen), and the three sentences would remain viable. The same with types of drinks (e.g. Beer is good for health; Yesterday I drank a beer; The beer that I drank yesterday was India pale ale → Donkey punch is not so good for health; Last night I had a donkey punch; The donkey punch I had last night was horrible). On the other hand, you could not make sentences like these with proper names like Wikipedia or Tsar Nicholas II. So in short, being a type of something or being specific does not make it proper.

The intro of Wikipedia's proper name article says uniqueness is a factor as is the idea of being a single entity. There is not one unique donkey punch or Long island iced tea or green tea or India pale ale. All have been drunk millions of times. (But I'll admit these issues are not always clear cut especially when related to capitalisation—there have been innumerable Mays and autumns.) — AjaxSmack 02:34, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the first move per AjaxSmack and BarrelProof. Support the second move as the sexual practice (to which Donkey Punch currently redirects) is not a proper name. Graham (talk) 04:47, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose 1st move per MOS:ACTCAPS, which addresses all manner of "modern folklore" pop-culture topics that are not proper names. Support 2nd move per Graham11 and WP:DIFFCAPS. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 09:37, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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.