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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.
Scientia et Libertas | Per Aspera ad Astra NovaDinner in English?
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.
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.Use the English titles unless these are as different as GoLion and Voltron and deserve separate pages.
Keet cleanupOfficial rule, courtesy of How to Create a Work's Page:
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.
Edited by sgamer82
I'm planning to start a page for the Agaton Sax series of children's detective novels. (Very popular in Britain and Sweden, decades ago.) The question, though, is whether I should use the English-language titles for the books or the original Swedish ones. Usually the answer would be clear: the English names. However, the English versions are often very different from the Swedish originals.
For instance, the first novel, Agaton Sax and the Big Rig has had a lot of text added, changed or removed in the English translation. Partly in order to make the book more interesting—the author felt that keeping the spirit of the books was more important than creating a perfect English-language copy of the Swedish text, and was more than happy to write new material for the English version if the end result constituted a better novel. Partly, too, since this novel was the first in the series that he wrote and published but the eighth one to be published in English. Since it needed to seem like the eighth one in the series to the British readers, the author inserted mentions of, and appearances by, characters from the previously translated novels, to make sure that it felt like a sequel despite not being one originally.
In other words, when I trope the books (which I have access to in Swedish only), should I refer to the books with their Swedish titles, or with the English titles that refer to what in theory is the English version but in practice is in some cases another novel?
Edited by JamesJames