Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films)
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This page is a naming conventions guideline for Wikipedia, reflecting how authors of this encyclopedia address certain issues. This guideline is intended to help you improve Wikipedia content. Feel free to update this page as needed, but please use the discussion page to propose major changes. |
Conventions:
Titles of films are capitalized, except for articles (a, and, the) and prepositions and conjunctions shorter than five letters (e.g., to, from, and). For example: Angels and Virgins, End of the Spear, Failure to Launch, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization). Film titles, like the titles of books and other works of art, are always italicized.
Often, films share the same name as other films, books or terms. When disambiguating a film from something else, use (film) in the title when only one film had that name, and (YEAR film) in the title when there is more than one film by that name (example: Titanic (1997 film)).
Some film titles describe other things about which we want articles. For example, An American in Paris names both a Gershwin musical piece and a film, and Dune is a geological term, a novel, a film, and a made-for-cable miniseries.
Where a film or book title is unique or virtually unique, let the title of the article be the same as the title of the film. But where it is the same as a subject in science, a novel, or whatever, unless the film title is far and away the most common accepted meaning of the word or phrase, title the film article like this: Film Title (film). Then, in case of more than one production of the film, add a date or other information, for example Titanic (1953 film).
For dates, please use the dates at IMDb.
[edit] Film series articles
For articles on a series of films, the title of the article should be "Series name (film series)." If there are two series with the same name, use "Series name (YEAR film series)", where YEAR is the year of the first film of the series.
