Forum:CT Archive/Naming policy: US vs. UK editions

Recently, we've had a few examples of published Star Wars titles having different names between their US and UK editions. The prime example most of us are probably familiar with is Star Wars: Galactic Atlas, which was actually published in the US under the title Star Wars: Galactic Maps: An Illustrated Atlas of the Star Wars Universe. We've opted to use the UK edition's title because it was published well before the US edition. Another is Adventures in Wild Space: The Steal, which was later published in the US as Adventures in Wild Space: The Heist. And there are more examples.

Given this trend, it would be prudent for us to amend the Naming policy to cover situations like this. I am therefore proposing the "Literary works" section of the policy page be revised as follows:

Firstly, I propose renaming this section title "Real-world publications" in order to categorize everything, not just literary works, under this section for ease of reference. This applies namely to the page's "Video games" section at present. The meat of the proposal follows:

For real-world publications, use the title of the work as the article's name.
 * If the U.S. and U.K. editions of a title differ, default to the U.S. edition's title (example: Star Wars: Rebellion, instead of Star Wars: Supremacy).
 * In this situation, use the U.K. edition's title if the U.K. edition's publication date precedes that of the U.S. edition by a considerable amount of time, such as several weeks or months (examples: Star Wars: Galactic Atlas, instead of Star Wars: Galactic Maps: An Illustrated Atlas of the Star Wars Universe; Adventures in Wild Space: The Steal, instead of Adventures in Wild Space: The Heist).
 * If a spelling difference exists between the U.S. and U.K. editions of a title, default to the U.S. edition's title (example: Art of Coloring: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, instead of Art of Colouring: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story). See also: Manual of Style.

The rest of that section would then follow as it presently reads, and the "Video games" section would slide in as a new subsection.

I've also added the last bullet to cover instances where the US and UK editions actually differ in terms of American-English or British-English spelling. This is basically already covered by the Manual of Style, but it helps to list it here for ease of reference and to avoid any potential confusion, since this page doesn't mention this type of situation at all.

In light of that, I think it would also be beneficial to add a note to the "General rules" section of this page, again just to avoid any confusion and for ease of reference, especially since The Most Honourable Guild of Armourers example raised some eyebrows during its original nomination phase. The following would become the second bullet point under the "Be precise when possible" subsection:


 * If the spelling of a subject's name varies between U.S. and U.K. source editions, default to the American-English version of the name (example: Eirriss Ryloth Defense Tech, instead of Eirriss Ryloth Defence Tech). See also: Manual of Style.
 * British-English spelling may be used if a subject is spelled as such in a source's U.S. edition (example: The Most Honourable Guild of Armourers).

With that, we vote on both proposals. Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 00:40, August 17, 2017 (UTC)

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 * 1) Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 00:40, August 17, 2017 (UTC)