Talk:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio

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Confused

I'm confused. Is this page not the same (except slightly inferior) as this page: MGM cartoon department? Do we really need both of these?

And was MGM's animation department really founded by Hanna and Barbera? I had heard that it existed before they went to work there...

Oh, and the English is poor, I'm sure that the 'founding logo' image is NOT the 'founding logo', and there are many inaccuracies in the whole article.

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Capitalization question

Is there any clear precedent or reason for not capitalizing "cartoon studio?" Polyglottalstop (talk) 20:11, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Because the studio was never a distinct entity of its own, and was always covered by internal documentation and trade press in the lower-case format resultantly. Its successors in MGM Animation/Visual Arts and MGM Animation had proper (literally and figuratively) names. --FuriousFreddy (talk) 17:10, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

MGM

I wonder if MGM made a movie based on Jabberjaw. 03:21, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Closing date

I'm not clear on the study closing date. In several web pages they affirm that closed permanmen in 1967. And one page of wikipedia include the theatrical animated short films of 1960s: List of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio films. 83.45.246.185 (talk) 20:06, 23 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Renaming

On 2017-05-31, this article was renamed from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (with hyphen) to Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer (with endash). As far as I can see this was done without any prior discussion, and by a non-standard method. It had been stable at the old name for years. My inclination is to reinstate the old title. There's guidance at WP:ENDASH:

Generally, use a hyphen in compounded proper names of single entities.
Guinea-Bissau; Bissau is the capital, and this distinguishes the country from neighboring Guinea

Wilkes-Barre, a single city named after two people, but Minneapolis–Saint Paul, a union of two cities

John Lennard-Jones, an individual named after two families

Any objections?

(See also the discussion at Talk:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer#Renaming). Colonies Chris (talk) 14:11, 20 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]