Quoting surfeur51:

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When we had those discussion about T4Xi or Se7en, most users here considered we had, per the rules, to reproduce exactly what's on the cover. We have no space here, so rules ask for Meangirls.

I know that sometimes rule application seems stupid, and I asked in the past for the right to be intelligent when necessary. That was refused by most users.

So, no doubt, people who want to follow rules have to use Meangirls.


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Quoting CalebAndCo:

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Agreed.  "MEANGIRLS" is just a stylized way to show "Mean Girls".

do not forget FRANCOIS is a stylised way to show François... so let us be consistent...

There is an exception in the rules for this Yves.

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This part of the title rules is new:

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If the title is shown run together, but with coloring and/or symbols splitting the title words, use standard spacing.

Per this new rule, the answer is very clear

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Same color, no symbol... we have to use rules, not to interpret them... nothing is said about fonts.

If the title of the movie doesn't count then is anyone suggesting that we correct the profile titles to "SnowWhite and the Seven Dwarfs" or "SkyCaptain and the World of Tomorrow"?  Yes, this is pretty much a rhetorical question.  I'm really not trying to be a wiseguy but merely attempting to point out these current exceptions to the rules.  Maybe the term "guidelines" would be better.

You still don't get it Yves. This is not about your imagined ability to determine typos or "fix" things which offend your nationalistic sensibilities. It is simply about DATA, data that is easy to enter by each and every user because the data is what they see and is based only the data as presented, not based on some bizzare set of Rules determined by ANY culture or nation, simply based on the REAL data that you SEE On Screen.

Quoting jfrench:

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If the title of the movie doesn't count then is anyone suggesting that we correct the profile titles to "SnowWhite and the Seven Dwarfs" or "SkyCaptain and the World of Tomorrow"?  Yes, this is pretty much a rhetorical question.  I'm really not trying to be a wiseguy but merely attempting to point out these current exceptions to the rules.  Maybe the term "guidelines" would be better.

I don't think anybody really wants to see Meangirls as the title.  I know I certainly don't.  Just pointing out the, shall we say, intellectual inconsistency that tends to go along with general message board herd mentality.  Next month we'll have this exact same discussion about a completely different title and the gang may arbitrarily go a completely different direction.  Layer Cake with the number 4, for example.  A completely nonsense title that graphically looks cool but doesn't even match the credit block.  Yet folks will swear up and down that the name of the movie is L4yer Cake.

I was also a little annoyed to see folks reflexively dumping on Yves when all he's guilty of is remembering the previous title discussions that occured on these boards.  It's not his fault his memory lasts more than a week and therefore can spot an inconsistency.

Quoting surfeur51:

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Quoting Prof. Kingsfield:

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...., simply based on the REAL data that you SEE ...

Thanks for supporting my position : Meangirls, without inventing a space. BTW, your vote was for MeanGirls ? why G ?

Wrong again.

If you look at the title you can clearly delineate two words based on several different criteria. You are simply trying to use a straw man argument to try and assuage you own desire to be able  correct what you deign to be typos and or apply your arcane nationalistic or cultural rules to names, just so you don't feel offended the American Rules are similarly arcane, which is why we simply follow the data. And in the case of Mean Girls the data is CLEAR. The sad part about this is that you have an agenda that you want to achieve , you don't want cultural neutrality, which is what the system is based on, you don't want a system that is easy for any user to be able to enter the data without any particular knowledge other than what is shown On Screen. We don't have to wait for the oh so knowledgeable Yves to enter the data because it has to bend to HIS cultural wishes. You simply enter the data as it appears. You know Yves, it is not uncommon for Crew to use a different name when they "act". So you might have FRANÇOIS as a crew member and the same person as an actor listed as FRANCOIS. You might have Jorgé and Francois listed and you would no doubt argue that Francois was a typo, but you can't know that and it is not what the data says, which in this hypothetical is Francois.

All you have to do is follow the data for the Online, it's the way the system was designed, and whatever you want to do locally is up to you. It was simply designed to make data entry easy for all to input with NO special knowledge or information as it relates to ANY nation or culture. As I have told you before when i am dealing with a bunch of french special characters I don't have any problem entering them i type what I SEE, I don't try to anglicize or americanize the data, I type what I see, and now that we have Custom Crew Roles that will apply to any such data as it relates to a Crew Role, I hope my French isn't too rusty.I have explained this to you in every way I can conceive of and you aren't interested you want to be able to apply your arcane cultural Rules and determine what is or is not a typo, that's all well and good but it simply is NOT the data.

I am certainly glad that the user who asked about the title in the OP understood the answer. I, for one, am not sure how whether i would handle the issue via Original Title or not, I can see both sides of that particular argument. I would probably make the decision based on what worked best for ME, and would likely not contribute the Original Title data no matter what.<shrugs>

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I think this might be a first...a unanimous poll! 

This time you jinxed it     

Quoting surfeur51:

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In fact, a poll where quite everybody is intelligent and ready to violate rules.

Did I miss something??

Quoting the rules:

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If the title is shown run together, but with coloring and/or symbols splitting the title words, use standard spacing.

So we're not ready to violate the rules, we're applying them.