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Troper Coolman keeps editing work titles to be bold italics instead of just italics. I first noticed it on The Legend of Dragoon and reverted it with an edit reason explaining why. He changed it back, so I reverted it again, and sent him a PM explaining why. He changed it a third time, and I haven't heard anything from him about it, either via PM or edit reason. Checking his history, he's doing this pretty consistently — in addition to Legend of Dragoon, he's done it on Sleeping Dogs, Dark Stalkers, Kingdom Hearts...
Since he's not taking the hint and he's not talking, what should we do?
09:03:17 PM 28th Oct 2012
Editing suspended. Fix 'em where you find 'em. ;)
08:13:41 AM 1st Nov 2012
Oh wow, I thought work titles were supposed to be bold italics in introductory paragraphs (only in the first instance of mentioning the work's name) rather than just regular italics. I ran into this issue on one of the Star Wars movie pages a while ago...
02:43:51 PM 1st Nov 2012
Nope. I think that is a wikipedia thing that someone assumed should be used here. It shouldn't.
edited 18th Aug '14 12:49:40 PM by SeptimusHeap
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
If I read this correctly, just Italic.
Just out of curiosity: Did this decision ever undergo a voting process? Who decides on these kind of things? Is it put down somewhere in writing?
edited 18th Aug '14 1:45:28 PM by eroock
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It's standard grammar for American English. Long works—like movies, music albums, TV series, books, magazines, newspapers—have their titles italicized. Shorter works, or single parts of a longer work—like episodes of a TV series, short stories, or songs—just get their titles in quotation marks.
I didn't write any of that.
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Considering it's Eddie saying "Don't do it", that's rule enough. Myself, I don't mind it, but that's me.
That works much better as part of one of the present policy pages.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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Bumping this.
My own recommendation would be to replace the parenthese "(if you're not sure which to use, see what someone else did for a work in the same medium)" with "(Italics for works, "quotes" for short works like songs, essays or chapters and no emphasis at all for personas, sacred texts and works that are referred not by their franchise name)" on How to Write an Example - the writeup proposal on the YKTTW strikes me as far too long on an already-long page that needs to be read more.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
If it is the rule that the title of a work is supposed to be Work Title and cannot be Work Title, then How to Create a Work's Page should say that. Currently it doesn't—is there any place this guideline is documented, other than this discussion thread? I just had The Iron Horse changed to The Iron Horse in The Iron Horse page that I just made—which is fine, no big deal, but I was unaware of this rule.
edited 13th Oct '14 10:24:32 AM by gallium
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I changed the "write a brief description" section of How to Create a Work's Page so it includes work title formatting.
Not right away, not right away
Hi,
is there a consensus as to how titles in the work descriptions are formatted?
From what I can see there are two rivaling variations: The Movie and The Movie.