Revert custom titles on numerical tropes? (ex: One Hundred and Eight)

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There may be others that I am not aware of.

I can understand why they were changed, but as-is, it kind makes them look out-of-place in trope lists an indexes. For example, One Hundred And Eight would be put around the other O-tropes, but it looks weird as a number in the middle of it, especially as it could be pronounced "Hundred and eight". The same applies for the other tropes I listed.

Thoughts?

edited 29th Jun '11 9:36:23 PM by GGCrono

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edit: Then how the bloodly hell do I link to things on the forums?

edited 29th Jun '11 9:41:27 PM by deuxhero

Numerals are alphabetized ahead of letters, so just move them to the top.

True. But considering that you only see the letters when you're editing them, wouldn't a good number of users keep doing it? Especially new ones.

I prefer to leave the numbers as written rather numerals. The custom titles are for adding characters that would require a ptitle, not fiddling with the way it displays.

What Deboss said.

I think it also breaks the rules for when to use numerals instead of spelling out the name. If we're going to insist on proper grammer in custom titles, we should do it all the way.

But in the case of works, if the creator used a numeral rather than spelling it out, "use the official title" trumps all. The movie about the little ragdolls is "9" not "Nine. "Nine" is a musical and movie about one man in the middle of a mid-life crisis and all the women in his life. The movie with the freaky monolith is "2001: A Space Odyssey", not "Two-thousand One, a Space Odyssey". And so on...

If it's important enough that we use the "official title" that we need to add wingdings to the names of works because it's Lucky Star, not "Lucky Star", then we need to use numerals where appropriate as well.

Agreed, but what about tropes? Writing out the words (and letting the custom titles reflect that) is just easier, and keeps the alphabetization simple.

What this guy said. Titles with numerals in them are perfectly fine, I'm only concerned about tropes.

I wasn't talking about titles, and I agree that how it's written is the correct thing, although I'm curious about when they do weird capitalization. I think the original print of Starship Troopers had the entire title capitalized.

... Does the fact that most comic-book dialogue is written in all capital letters mean that they must be quoted in allcaps?

edited 2nd Jul '11 7:01:35 PM by Stratadrake

^^ I'd say all-caps should be the exception (For example, Star Wars also uses allcaps for the logo, and I'm sure there are others beyond that one that just came to me immediately).

If it were a mix of capital and lowercase letters, that would sound like an appropriate use.

I support the use of customized titles ONLY when there's actually punctuation, accented letters, or mid-word capitalization in the title. So Lucky Star should be written as Lucky Star as the star is NOT part of the title, only part of the logo. Manos The Hands Of Fate should be written as "Manos" The Hands of Fate rather than what it is currently custom titled to, as the quotation marks ARE part of the title.