Talk:They (video game)

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[edit] THEY vs. They

Title should remain as They per the guidelines set forth at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trademarks).--SeizureDog (talk) 05:44, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Those could be initials for all we know so this is crystal ball-ery.--Svetovid (talk) 11:07, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Your argument is self-defeating. It is less likely to be an acronym and therefore more crystal bally to refer to it as such.--SeizureDog (talk) 11:14, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Actually per MOS:TM, it says to capitalize all trademarks, but there is no need to use it in a sentence, as a NOUN. Therefore, the page title should be capitalized. Also, look at the SOCOM series. All those video game articles are still capitalized and nobody's doing anything about them, so why should this page be an exception? At the very least, the infobox should follow the trademarked spelling.--EclipseSSD (talk) 14:44, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
<sigh> Read MOS:TM more carefully. The specific rule that applies to this case is thus:
"Follow standard English text formatting and capitalization rules even if the trademark owner considers nonstandard formatting "official":
avoid: REALTOR®, TIME, KISS
instead, use: Realtor, Time, Kiss
'SOCOM' is an acronym (Special Operations Command), 'They' is a word. That is why 'SOCOM' stays capitalized (as is standard English practice for acronyms), while 'They' does not. The rule your misreading that says "Capitalize trademarks, as with proper names" applies to the first letter only; not the entire word.--SeizureDog (talk) 15:55, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Also, read Help:Moving a page. The move function is to be used when moving pages, not copypasta.--SeizureDog (talk) 16:02, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, the article itself should keep the trademarked name, if the title page will not because it just makes more sense to include the trademarked spelling in the article. All other video game articles such as Colin McRae: Dirt (official typeset DiRT) and Race Driver: Grid (official typeset GRID) have the trademarked spelling contained within the article itself even if the page title follows standard trademark rules.--EclipseSSD (talk) 17:19, 20 February 2008 (UTC)