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Registered: March 18, 2007 | Posts: 426 |
| Posted: | | | | I couldn't find this in the Guidelines, nor by searching the forum, although it seems a common problem. How exactly should I compose the title of a profile that has 2 movies on it ? Do I separate the two titles with an ampersand, a hyphen, a slash,... ? |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 413 |
| Posted: | | | | I couldn't find the Guidelines... |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 1,279 |
| Posted: | | | | No specific guidelines, but all the cases of this I've seen have used / between the titles where there isn't already a link in the boxset title itself.
e.g. if the boxset was Superman 1 and Superman 2 I would use the 'and', if it was
Superman 1 Superman 2
I'd go with Superman 1/Superman 2 | | | IVS Registered: January 2, 2002 |
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Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,459 |
| Posted: | | | | I agree with Lithurge - if there is nothing on the cover to separate them, then just use a slash. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,635 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Lithurge: Quote:
I'd go with Superman 1/Superman 2 Or perhaps Superman 1 / Superman 2. Seems to be more readable to me. | | | Hal |
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Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,459 |
| Posted: | | | | double post | | | Last edited: by northbloke |
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Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,459 |
| Posted: | | | | More readable, but badder english Seriously though, general grammar convention is not to separate with spaces. |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Posts: 2,337 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote: More readable, but badder english
Seriously though, general grammar convention is not to separate with spaces. English is not the only language in the world |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,119 |
| Posted: | | | | What does the spine say? |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 2,293 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote:
Or perhaps Superman 1 / Superman 2.
Seems to be more readable to me. Checking MANY titles in the database it is also the 'accepted' way it is done (bad english or not) - in fact it is so widely accepted that more than once I've seen Title 1/Title 2 changed to Title 1 / Title 2 as the only update in a contribution and get all Yes votes. I believe therefore the accepted Guidelines are to separate with ' / ' | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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Registered: March 23, 2007 | Posts: 20 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote: More readable, but badder english
Seriously though, general grammar convention is not to separate with spaces. I thought that was only with single words, such as and/or and he/she, where the / means 'or'. When phrases are used instead of single words there tend to be spaces around the slash ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)#English_language ) Here / is being used in the sense of 'and' instead of the ampersand ( & ) that normal English would use. Ampersands would be a bad idea for film titles since there are titles with ampersands but hardly any with a slash. | | | Last edited: by jaap |
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Registered: March 18, 2007 | Posts: 426 |
| Posted: | | | | Thanks for the feedback guys. I had a submission for two movies Narc and Control. I'll change the submission to have them show up as "Narc / Control". BTW, the box just didn't have any separator, the titles were just in 2 colors. In fact, at first I thought it was a movie named Narc Control . |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 4,596 |
| Posted: | | | | IMO, this all falls into the realm of personal preference. Either way is correct and a contribution which solely adds a space before & after the forward slash adds nothing of significant value to the database. | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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