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Can't correct capitalisation error in title due to nonstandard capitalisation
I'm trying to correct the UK alternate title of 'The Colour of Magic' miniseries.
The correct UK title is Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic, but IMDB keeps changing 'The' to 'the', saying, "The following fixes have been applied automatically. Strange capitalization. The word 'The' is usually written as 'the'."
It's "The Colour of Magic" that's "of" Terry Pratchett, so "the" should be capitalised in this case.
Ironically, the 'international English' title is capitalised exactly as I'm trying to correct the UK English title.
Bethanny
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6 months ago
Hi @giskal -
Can you link the title page below? The ones I found are correctly capitalized.
Cheers!
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Col_Needham
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6 months ago
@giskal Also please see the Possessives section on https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/title-formatting/G56U5ERK7YY47CQB?ref_=helpsrall#
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giskal
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6 months ago
Hi @Bethanny
Here's the link to the title page.
Here's a snippet of the current UK and worldwide titles:
I had tried changing the UK title to 'Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic', as that's the correct title here in the UK (both in opening credits and media), but it kept changing 'The' to 'the'.
@Col_Needham kindly pointed to the page that says 'possessives' shouldn't be in 'imdb display title', but the 'complete title'; so I've now tried changing it for the UK 'complete title', but still no go:
Edit - not sure why 'solved' is shown at the top of the thread; this isn't solved. There are examples of other films that have 'The' properly capitalised in their titles. e.g., the worldwide English 'complete title' for this very miniseries, as well as the US 'complete title' for John Carpenter's The Thing:
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