Talk:Infamous (series)

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Relisted for further input. Jafeluv (talk) 10:58, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

– From what I've seen, the series is often referred to as "inFamous" by most sources including Shacknews, GameRankings, Metacritic and Kotaku. – Harry Blue5 (talk • contribs) 22:40, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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]

Comment. Disagree with Masem's comment. See, for example, eBay and iPhone. If the majority of reliable sources use "inFamous", then that's what we, Wikipedia, should use (WP:COMMONNAME). However if successful, Infamous (video game) should be moved to inFamous (video game), not simply inFamous. Jenks24 (talk) 08:29, 26 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]
Support, What Jenks said. Marcus Qwertyus 05:11, 27 July 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]
Oppose, though I'd be okay with "InFamous" because CamelCase is allowed. Powers ^T 12:41, 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. Powers ^T 18:34, 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.--76.66.188.209 (talk) 22:20, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]