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	GSyren
	Profiling since 2001

Registered: March 14, 2007

Reputation: Highest Rating

Posts: 4,864

Posted:

I'm a bit confused about this (UPD 027616-862648):

It is entered as follows:
Title: "X": The Man With the X-Ray Eyes
Original title: "X"

There are multiple releases of this movie. But there seems to be a lot of confusion regarding the quotes.
The rules say 'Do not include quotes if they surround the entire title.'

It seems to me that the title is correct in this instance, but the original title is not. It ought to be just X (without quotes) since that is the entire (original) title. There are multiple other releases of this movie, but most of them looks to be incorrect. Many omit the quotes in the Title. One omits them in the Title but adds them in the Original Title, which seems really odd.

Any thoughts?

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	rdodolak

Registered: March 18, 2007

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Posts: 1,710

Posted:

I would agree with your assessment.

	ObiKen

Registered: October 22, 2015

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Posts: 320

Posted:

My understanding is the rules for title apply to the title from the front cover only.

The rule for Original Title states to use the title from the film's credits.
It also states "In cases where the title is the original title, leave the Original Title field blank."

EXAMPLES:
• If the cover title was "X" then change cover title to X and add the original title "X".
• If the cover title was X then we add the original title "X".
• If the cover title was "X": The Man With the X-Ray Eyes then we add the original title "X".

As a result of the cover title rules, the cover title will never match an original film title fully enclosed in quotes.

Hope that provided some clarity on the matter.

Last edited: by ObiKen

	GSyren
	Profiling since 2001

Registered: March 14, 2007

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Posted:

Quoting ObiKen:

Quote:
My understanding is the rules for title apply to the title from the front cover only

But that would mean that none of the rules for title (for example capitalization) applies to the original title. That doesn't seem right to me.

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Gunnar

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