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Theatre vs Theater is just a British vs American spelling thing for the most part but since almost all theatre pages are in the Theatre/ namespace, I think it’s best to move the pages there for consistency's sake. The icon was supposed to be for Theatre/ but the Theater spelling was used for it instead and it just hasn’t been fixed since then.
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You could also add redirects with the other spelling to the pages.
Is someone going to get around to fixing the masks thing?
Also, I feel like there was something else that made me think "er" was correct... would it be possible to put up some warning when people create an "er" page and automatically correct it/fuse it with "re", or automatically make "er" redirect to "re"?
I made this Idolized Julius Kingsley icon back when Akito first came out, and now that the crossover is actually happening, I don't care.
Either of those actions would need help from the administration. they've already been notified about the icons, but requesting some kind of "namespace redirect" configurable by mods would be good Query Wishlist material.
Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods Of Incremental)
There are other spacenames with the same issue, such as "Pro Wrestling" & "Professional Wrestling" and "Mythology" & "Mythology and Religion".
A lot of good you did me.
those are page titles, not namespaces. Not the exact same thing.
Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods Of Incremental)
Speaking as someone who was in a lot of plays growing up (in the US), I'd always been told/assumed that the theater is the building while theatre is the art form, so take that as you will.
A smile better suits a hero
^ Same here.
Trust no one.
In the UK, it's just "theatre" for both.
My understanding of the US usage is that the preference for "theater" spelling is actually newer than people think (from the 1970s, although the journey to the switch began earlier), so there are older people who are still alive who were raised using the "theatre" spelling, and companies that have been around longer than the preference change still use the "theatre" spelling. While there has been an attempt to create a difference between the two spellings (one for the building, one for the artform), that's artificial.
At least, that's what I was once told by a US friend who was researching the history of the American Ballet Theatre School, and decided to find out why it's spelled "theatre" instead of "theater". So, my knowledge is only as good as their research (and I can't verify that).
Heh. My spellchecker is going crazy over my "theater" spelling, so I threw one more in to try and push it over the edge (I need a new hobby, I think).
Edited by Wyldchyld If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
So, a while ago (I think within this year?) I started creating pages for some plays that I like and I used the namespace "theatre", because I thought that was correct. It's what's listed on the "Namespaces" list, after all. But then — I honestly don't know what made me think this, but something told me it was supposed to be "Theater". Maybe it's the fact that "Theater" gives you the icon with the masks at the top — see Identity V vs. Tsukino Empire.
So I just started looking to see how I should move the "re" ones to the "er" namespace — I thought I'd done it right when I moved the Identity V one to "er" but someone changed it back in the months while I was away— and I looked and saw that apparently "re" is right.
But "er" has the masks icon.
... It looks like the pages I just created are the only ones in the "er" namespace, so I guess I'll move those to "re"?
Edited by lavendermintrose