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SamCurt Since: Jan, 2001
11th Feb, 2020 05:18:11 AM

The general guideline is to use the latest official English title of exists, or the original title if it isn't.

If you plan to launch separate pages for each novel, I guess some pages will be under the Swedish title and dinner in English.

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JamesJames Since: Dec, 2012
Reymma Since: Feb, 2015
11th Feb, 2020 06:12:05 AM

The rules are that if a licensed English translation exists, we have to use those titles. Add redirects for the Swedish names.

However most of your post talks about the novel's text, not its title. For this, the best practice is to treat both versions as slight variants and acknowledge this in the entries: "Callback: Only in the English."

Also look at Translation Tropes for any that may apply, such as Completely Different Title.

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rjd1922 Since: May, 2013
11th Feb, 2020 07:46:03 AM

Use the English titles unless these are as different as GoLion and Voltron and deserve separate pages.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
11th Feb, 2020 11:12:01 AM

Official rule, courtesy of How to Create a Work's Page:

What if it's a foreign work with a non-English title?

TV Tropes is an English-language wiki, so we prefer to use the English titles where applicable. So if the work has an official localized title, use the English title for the page and add the non-English title as a redirect. However, if the work doesn't have an officially-translated English title, you can use the non-English title for the main page and make the English translation into a redirect instead.

Note: The wiki software doesn't support Unicode (at present). Some foreign-language titles may just not work with our system. Get as close as you can but don't sweat it. Whatever you do, do not try to create a wiki URL using anything other than the basic English alphabet (a-z, A-Z) and numerals (0-9), and article titles must begin with a letter. No diacritics or multi-byte characters. It won't work, and if it does work, it'll mess up everything else.

Not sure if that last part is relevant but figured better to include it and not have to than vice versa.

I usually extend this to English names and terms used within the work, given the spirit of the rule. As noted ^, exceptions can be made and the original work troped separately from the English if there to versions are truly that different.

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