Merging Duplicates

Thank you, bderoes, for your repply.

You need to begin with the 4 episodes.

What do you mean?
Do I need to merge each episode individually, and then merge the series?

That seems rather complicated.

As you suggest, I will leave the title issue for now.

The French capitalization rules seem more complicated than in English.

The first one says that "the first word is always capitalized, along with the second word if the first word is an article", so the proper title is indeed Les Aventures du jeune Voltaire.

Yes, each episode individually.

See item 3 here:

https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/how-can-i-merge-two-titles/GAL233TVTCPMLVDK?ref_=helpsrall#

The first word in this title is Les.

Aventures does not seem like a proper noun, as is Voltaire.

I'm a complete amateur on French capitalization.

But Italian seems similar, and I've added a lot of Italian titles to IMDb.

La traviata is correct in Italian. La Traviata is not. (I only know this from research done to add titles to IMDb. I'm still primarily an amateur of Italian capitalization too.)

The google search result uses lowercase aventure:

https://www.france.tv/france-2/les-aventures-du-jeune-voltaire/

but for this site, capitalizes:

https://www.allocine.fr/series/ficheserie_gen_cserie=26271.html

but I didn't open either link.

My apologies. The first thing I did was read the article, but I skipped that item obviously.

The title in the credits is all capitalized, so we don't know what the filmmakers intended.

I follow the same rules as this Wikipedia article
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Conventions_typographiques#Principes_de_capitalisation_des_titres

Which are the same as in this article in the eminent newspaper Le Monde

https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/correcteurs/2006/05/09/2006_05_lintrt_des_capi/

The first word is always capitalized. In this case, Les being a definite article, the connected noun is also capitalized, Les Aventures. The other words are in lowercase except Voltaire, which is name and therefore always capitalized, i.e. Les Aventures du jeune Voltaire.

The titles of the episodes is another matter.

When two words have the same weight, both should be capitalized.

The first one has two words, Jesuit and libertine of equal weight. Therefore the title should be Jésuite et Libertin IMO.

As you pointed out, France.tv use lowercase inside the titles instead. Since they are one of the producers, it may be more appropriate to follow their rule, i.e. Les aventures du jeune Voltaire and Jésuite et libertin.

I don't mind either way. What do you think?

I still need to decide which one to keep and which one to merge into, as both versions exist.

If france.tv is a producer, and uses lowercase...

Does one title consistently have more data on the episodes than the other?

Them make that the destination.

Or flip a coin.

I would choose the versions with fewer capital letters because it is closer to IMDb's description (from title formats):

"All lower-case letters at the start of words, except first word plus some exceptions (names etc.)"

If needed, you can adjust the capitalization again after the titles are merged.

I have edited the four episodes using France.tv's format and IMDb's format.

Should I wait before editing the series page as well, or can it be done straight away?

Peter_pbn, IMDb is wrong and French should be in the mixed format together with German, as I previously explained.

Are you saying you contributed title changes or merges?

Merging should come first.

Title cleanup after.

But if you've submitted title changes. now you have to wait to make sure the title doesn't change while your merge request is in progress.

I merged each episode. There was a warning, which I had to acknowledge.

I will let you know when this is done.

Apparently France Télévisions find IMDb's standard acceptable.

French capitalization may be "mixed", but it's a different mix than German.

I would trust the newspaper Le Monde more than France Television in regard to the French language.

Traditions tend to fade away in favor of simplification.