Forum:CT Archive/Colon usage in Dark Horse comic titles

The following proposal pertains only to colon usage for the "Star Wars portion of titles for comic series published by Dark Horse Comics. This Consensus track has no implications outside of that very narrow area, and does not serve to set a precedent for future Consensus tracks concerning article titles. Now, let's get down to business.

We currently format these titles as as such:
 * Star Wars Empire 8: Darklighter, Part 1

Dark Horse's website formats them like this:
 * Star Wars: Empire #8: Darklighter (part 1 of 4)

There's a couple of differences, as you can see. My proposal is that we change our colon usage to match Dark Horse's, but nothing else. Under this system, the relevant articles would be formated like this:
 * Star Wars: Empire 8: Darklighter, Part 1

Note that instances where the publisher does not use a colon (such as Star Wars Tales) would remain unaffected.

The current standard where we do not use a colon after Star Wars is due to the fact that when these articles were made, the namespace of this wiki was "Star Wars". This created all sorts of problems, and in this case caused us to drop the colon. I am sure there's an argument to be made for further refining our naming policies, but I will have none of it in this Consensus track.

Simply put: shall we put this artifact of a five-year-old bug behind us and comply with the publisher's own usage? --Imperialles 21:47, April 12, 2010 (UTC)

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 * 1) Imperialles 21:47, April 12, 2010 (UTC)