Title edit changes dashes into colons

Recently title edits have changed the dashes (-) in the titles into colons (:) for no reason, even though the official title doesn't have a colon but a dash. Why is this? Last three edits I made within a month have been incorrectly edited. Is there some AI used in this or is there someone who deliberately misspells the titles that the users have input?

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Peter_pbn

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3 hours ago

You should probably give examples and post the reference numbers of your edits.

There is a policy which may be relevant:

Subtitles are separated from the main title with a colon for English titles and a '-' for German titles IF the title on the 'film' uses no separator. Other languages are not (yet) standardized. If the title on the 'film' already uses a separator it is used.

https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/title-formatting/G56U5ERK7YY47CQB?ref_=helpms_helpart_inline

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Sorry, I do not understand the policy.

I forgot to mention that I'm not talking about the English titles, but the titles that are used in my country (not German either). Also, some titles may have colons, some may have dashes, or even both (like Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace). There is no one correct way, it is what it is when it was first translated. Not sure why there is some kind of upper policy to basically change the titles incorrectly to what they shouldn't be. How to get rid of this? And if there is no policy in other countries, why do then change them incorrectly from what I've input?

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Maybe you need to include evidence of the correct title.

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Edit: there were others, but I re-corrected them and they finally went as they should.

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