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Naming convention of collection titles (con't)
posted by endthemeSTAFFMOD on September 28, 2012 at 12:54 AM
This thread is a continuation from the old forum.
In the old thread I proposed if using the word collection or series in a collection title was redundant. Pcambraia offered a compelling reason why it wasn't, which I have accepted.
Sometimes there are collections that could have the same or similiar titles, such as different Sherlock Holmes or Dracula collections. I offered a naming scheme for collection titles when there are more than one collection with the same name (which I have borrowed from the naming convention that seems to be used on Wikipedia).
Collection title (N series)
Where N is either the production company name, director name, original release date of the first film, or the phrase "original series" if it is the original film series of more than one reboot/remake film series of the same title.
Example: Dracula (Hammer Series), where the production company was the famous Hammer Films.
There is no conensus at the moment, as Pcambria uses a different naming convention. This is more or less my own guideline that others may follow if they are unsure what to title a collection in said scenario.
Reply by Johnny Jackhammer
on April 11, 2017 at 5:49 PM
@travisbell
This is a dead thread, but it shouldn't be. Naming should be fairly simple. Movies shouldn't be named according to individual preferences, the official release name should be used. This removes most issues.
The Star Wars Collection is a perfect example. This is what I get when I query TMDB:
Not consistent!
Reply by Banana
on April 11, 2017 at 10:18 PM
That's what we do. That's exactly why there are sometimes inconsistencies between the titles of a series.
Reply by BryGur
on April 12, 2017 at 11:36 AM
I've been wondering why that is. We don't add "Movie" after movies names. That also brings problems in translations. For example Finnish language has inflections. If "collection"/"kokoelma" is part of the name it can't be inflected in translation.
If movies translated name is the same as the original, it's forbidden to add it as tranlated title. Reason I was given was because it bloats database. Adding "collection" after collections name grows database as much. I've seen a lot of collection translations to different languages that are collections English name just without "collection". It messes translations up, so people do that.
So the question is: why "Collection" has to be in the name?
Reply by lineker
on April 12, 2017 at 2:48 PM
I think it would be a too great change to suddenly remove it from all collections. I also believe it has support from a majority of the mods and users (but that's just a guess at this point). From my own perspective it would seem weird to add Sharknado to Sharknado, rather than adding Sharknado to Sharknado Collection. And I have always feared that it would cause many misunderstandings since users may get the idea to create a collection from a good movie entry (if not locked). Adding the collection bit to the title acts a bit as a safeguard in that regard.
If it's not working for you in Finnish, maybe you could use a different structure there?
Using the same example, they would add Sharknado as a translated title to Sharknado Collection? That is wrong. Feel free to fix it when you see it. Translated collection titles have caused some trouble over the years, though, with users fighting it out and us moderators being passive because of the language barrier.
Reply by n7n
on April 20, 2018 at 4:56 AM
I am sorry if this has already been discussed somewhere, but it bothers me…
The use of "The" to start a collection name is seemingly inconsistent. The majority of times it is not used, but then sometimes it is.
Can collections not start with "The", unless this is necessary as part of the name of the movies within the collection?