Forum:SH:Star Wars: Episode

Hello, Wookieepedia. Now that Star Wars: Episode VII has a real title, The Force Awakens, it's time to move our Episode film articles. Our longstanding formatting practice has been to place the colon after "Episode"; example: Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. This is what we've all come to know and love, but it's not the way Lucasfilm formats the film titles on StarWars.com and Lucasfilm.com.

The Films page on StarWars.com, as you will see, consistently formats the titles as, for example, "Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi," placing the colon after "Star Wars." This is repeated for Episode VII as well: "Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens." If you click on any of the individual film pages, this formatting is consistently repeated in the description blurbs. Example: "Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi - Opening Crawl - The Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi opening crawl was one of the last-completed elements of the film." And this is also the way Lucasfilm has always formatted Episode VII going back to its original announcement, calling it Star Wars: Episode VII. Notice the italics, which brings us to our final point...

Italics: It has also been our longstanding formatting practice to italicize the entire film title, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. But this, too, is not how Lucasfilm does it. As I pointed out in the preceding paragraph, "Star Wars" is italicized, whereas "Episode VII" is not. This is consistently repeated everywhere you look on Lucasfilm.com. Example: Wars: Episode IV A New Hope''.

So, we're going to begin moving these film articles and reformatting titles everywhere via RoboCade. Another happy landing. Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 20:00, November 6, 2014 (UTC)