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Requested move 10 October 2024

It has been proposed in this section that BabyMonster be renamed and moved to Babymonster.

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BabyMonster → Babymonster – Opening a discussion on whether or not the name of this group should be "Babymonster", or continue to be represented in camelcase as "BabyMonster".

The most common way the name is presented in RS is in the all-caps stylization, which doesn't help us here. I've dug through pages and pages of sources looking for instances where they mention the group not using all caps:

Reliable English-language sources for "Babymonster":

Reliable English-language sources for "BabyMonster":

There are also some sources that use "Baby Monster" (two separate words) but I think those are outliers. I've dug through all of YG Entertainment's official releases (including their yearly reports and financial releases) and can find no mention of the band as anything but the all caps stylization so they're of no help either.

Past YG Entertainment precedent doesn't really help us either... Blackpink doesn't use camelcase, but BigBang does.

The guideline at MOS:CAMELCASE defers to whatever appears to be most common but there is no clear majority here; based on what I've found in English-language RS, "Babymonster" has a very slight edge.

This article's assertion that the group's name is commonly shortened to "Baemon" (not "BaeMon") might be considered an additional point in no-camelcase's favour.

Does anyone know of any official sources where YG has stated one way or the other? That'd settle it. RachelTensions (talk) 16:17, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom's survey of independent reliable sources showing a majority with lowercase, along with Wikipedia's general tilt toward lowercase per MOS:CAPS's opening sentence: "Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.". —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 22:24, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]