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In nearly every instance of "{some subgenre} Western", the initial adjective should be lowercase. For example, "contemporary Western", "gothic Western", and yes, "spaghetti Western". The exceptions to this are when the adjective is itself a proper noun (which spaghetti is not), such as "Australian Western" or "Florida Western". The fact that "most if not all references" exist is not a reason to not fix it. We just completed a discussion regarding whether "Western" itself should be capped. And while that was a 2:1 ratio of capitalizing "Western" vs not capitalizing, editors on both sides noted specifically that capitalization of "Spaghetti" is incorrect. ButlerBlog (talk) 21:32, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
My reading of that discussion clearly differs from yours. I see no consensus on there that the capitalisation of spaghetti is incorrect, and in fact MOS:CAPS clearly supports it as the majority of sources do in fact appear to use it capitalised and an article talk page conversation cannot override the MOS. Additionally the capitalisation of spaghetti wasn't the focus or point of that RM. Plus the evidence on that page was all over the place on how things should be capitalised with similar NGram returns yielding massively different results, which is why there was no consensus. Until a proper consensus can be obtained they should remain in the status quo as it has. I personally don't care, but long term consensus of status quo is there for the support of it (with references.) Canterbury Tailtalk21:58, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
