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Tiltes of works of art

Is there a guideline about article titles for foreign works of art: books, films, paintings, etc. Especially in the cases when there is no "official" or commonly used English translation or if there are several English translations. --Altenmann >talk 21:39, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The closest thing to a unified guideline about this topic would probably be Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) (WP:NCUE), which includes sections on how to approach topics with competing English translations or no common English translation in the first place. However, NCUE is a more general titling guideline that is not about the titles of works specifically. For more topically focused guidance, your best bet is probably to look up the titling guideline for the relevant category of work and identify the most appropriate section therein. For instance, WP:NCBOOKS#Title translations and the following section address titling guidance for foreign books; WP:NCFILM#Non-English language films covers films; and MOS:ART#Article titles features a brief discussion on how to handle non-English names for works of visual art. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 13:42, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Zero-width non-joiner in article title

The article Chauha‌n contains a zero-width non-joiner character between the second "a" and the "n", the article Chauhan does not. Could somebody knowledgeable please look into resolving this? There is also this redirect. Paradoctor (talk) 22:18, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think I've taken care of the Chauhan issue (caused by sockpuppet hijinks). As for the redirect ([1]), I guess it's harmless since it's pointing to the right target, but you're welcome to RfD it if you want. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 22:33, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Paradoctor (talk) 22:39, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Multiplication sign

Should the use of the multiplication sign (×) in article titles be utterly avoided? Given that the guideline clearly points out to avoid the use of characters not found on a standard keyboard, I interpret that it includes the multiplication sign as well. However, and although I know about WP:OTHERCONTENT, I noticed this category with several articles that include the sign in their titles. My doubt about this arises from a discussion I started in the Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka's talk page. Personally I would prefer to keep the sign, but I wanted to know more opinions on the matter.

P.S: I also have another question now with the Ed Sheeran-related articles that include the division symbol in the titles as well. Xexerss (talk) 07:53, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see no practical problem with using a multiplication sign if there's a redirect that uses an ⟨x⟩ instead. Remsense ‥ 论 08:30, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is this a valid disambig page?

An article I have watchlisted Eliza Smith has been turned into a disambig page, with the article that was there previously moved to Eliza Smith (writer). Added to the new disabig page are Eliza Kennedy Smith, Eliza Bland Smith Erskine Norton and Eliza Doyle Smith. All three of the 'non-Eliza Smith' articles have been around for a while with no need for a disambig page (particularly one that isn't Eliza Smith). Is this not a case where hatnotes would be preferable to a disambig page, given they have 'natural' disambiguators? (I ask this from a position of complete ignorance on disambig pages, which I rarely get involved with... - SchroCat (talk) 09:10, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The place to ask such questions is usually Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation, but I can tell you right now that the answer you will get is that this is a perfectly fine disambiguation page. Any person with a given first name and last name is likely to be identifiable by that name, irrespective of whether a middle name (or maiden name) is interposed. If there is an argument that Eliza Smith (writer) is the primary topic of the page, then the disambiguation page can be moved to a "Foo (disambiguation)" title, but it seems unlikely that such a short article on a person prominent so many decades ago would be primary. BD2412 T 12:49, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's great - thanks very much. I don't think the writer is likely to be the primary (or at least, if she is, it'll be by a very narrow margin and I'd be surprised),but it's good to know. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 12:55, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How to disambiguate TV producers?

While looking through Category:American television producers, I noticed there is no consistency in how the articles are disambiguated parenthetically—compare, for example, Bill Anderson (producer), Robert Borden (TV producer), Jimmie Baker (television producer), and Nick Davis (television and movie producer). Would it make sense to standardize these parenthetical disambiguators, or is there existing guidance somewhere that I'm missing? Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 01:28, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Generally speaking per WP:PRECISION, (producer) should be sufficient, unless there's multiple producers of the same name, and extra precision is needed. —Bagumba (talk) 03:31, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Korea-related articles has an RfC

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Korea-related articles has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you.

I'd like to hear from people who don't know much about Korea or Korean history, but are familiar with Wikipedia style as a whole. This is a pretty major topic that would affect thousands of articles.

The topic is on what romanization system to use for Korean history articles. This would affect the Korean naming conventions. seefooddiet (talk) 21:47, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]