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Oppose: Breaks
MOS:TM, flat out. It was at inFamous before (before the first game was released) but was moved to fit standard english casing. --
MASEM (
t)
23:43, 20 July 2011 (UTC)reply
The cases of eBay and iPod are specifically exempted when only the lowercase first letter prefix in
MOS:TM. Infamous does not fall into that. --
MASEM (
t)
13:10, 27 July 2011 (UTC)reply
Hmmm, you're correct (I should have read more thoroughly) that only first letter decapitalisation is permitted per
MOS:TM. To me, though, that seems like a flaw in the guideline more than anything else. Common sense would dictate that if it's ok for the first letter to be lower case, then it's fine for the first two letters to be lower case.
Jenks24 (
talk)
21:15, 27 July 2011 (UTC)reply
The reason the first-letter approach is ok is becuase they are part of abbreviations. "in" in "inFamous" is just part of the word (I'm not even sure of Sucker Punch's reasoning for the spelling of the name that way. (And if we really wanted to be pendantic, the cover title on both boxes is cased "inFAMOUS", which is certainly not allowable). If there was a known reason for why they opted for this casing (setting off "in" from the rest) it might be possible to argue something different, but to make it readable for an encyclopedia, it doesn't make sense for anything else but "Infamous". --
MASEM (
t)
12:48, 28 July 2011 (UTC)reply
Agreeing with Vegaswikian below that the guideline would probably need to be changed (via RfC or some such), so I guess you can mark me down as an oppose. Out of interest, what is iPod an abbreviation of?
Jenks24 (
talk)
07:39, 2 August 2011 (UTC)reply
Per
iMac, the "i" stands most likely for "individual" and/or "internet". My belief (not proven) for Infamous is that the "inFamous" casing allows them to play on the words "famous" and "infamous", reflecting the fact that in the games the player can opt to either direction with their character (good or evil). That still makes the core name simply the word "infamous", and thus the casing should follow standard English. --
MASEM (
t)
12:20, 2 August 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose. If we are going to override the established convention that that needs a broader discussion in a different forum then this page. To follow the logic offered above, if we allow 2 then we should allow 3. Allowing the first is clean and simple and was established for a reason by a larger discussion. If the guideline changes, then this request should be revisited.
Vegaswikian (
talk)
05:58, 28 July 2011 (UTC)reply
I don't think any source carries the name that way. As I note above, I've no idea why "in" is different casing than the rest of the title, which may justify this , but I don't see it presently. --
MASEM (
t)
12:48, 28 July 2011 (UTC)reply
I agree we should follow the sources. They do seem to go either with "inFamous" or with "Infamous" depending on how closely they choose to follow the publisher's orthography. I thought "InFamous" might be usable if "in" and "famous" are two separate lexical elements, but that doesn't appear to be the case.
PowersT18:34, 28 July 2011 (UTC)reply
I agree. If the game was actually pronounced in famous there may have been a case but they are more likely using the word infamous, a word related to the word infamy and which is pronounced in-fa·mous and not in famous.--
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talk)
22:20, 28 July 2011 (UTC)reply
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