Talk:Sonic Colors
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Wrong Name
The Trailers and Announcement clearly say "Sonic Colours" NOT "Sonic Colors" so I would like to rename it or use both names.
DreamsDreams (talk) 15:12, 26 May 2010 (UTC)User:DreamsDreams
- The official American spelling is Colors - per the US blog entry and official website soniccolors.com - while outside of the US, it is Colours. Wikipedia pages tend to go off the American spelling as that is where the Wikipedia project is based. 212.225.118.10 (talk) 15:23, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
- INCORRECT - It may be that the US spelling of Colors should be used, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact WP servers are in the US - it is to do with what is the most appropriate version of English the page should be written in and that will depend on other things - see Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#National_varieties_of_English since the US is the only major country that spells Colors that way (see Wikipedia:Spelling#English spelling comparison chart) then Colours might be better since the game if released will be available globally. Codf1977 (talk) 15:32, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
- Best to discuss it now and establish consensus, or editors will end up moving this article backwards and forwards for the duration up until release. 212.225.118.10 (talk) 15:36, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
- INCORRECT - It may be that the US spelling of Colors should be used, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact WP servers are in the US - it is to do with what is the most appropriate version of English the page should be written in and that will depend on other things - see Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#National_varieties_of_English since the US is the only major country that spells Colors that way (see Wikipedia:Spelling#English spelling comparison chart) then Colours might be better since the game if released will be available globally. Codf1977 (talk) 15:32, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
- Since Wikipedia has an international point of view, we should rename the word "colors" to "colours", since that's the international name. Titles are meant to have the the name that the game is most commonly known by. --Josh (Mephiles602) 18:10, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
- Okay - but be prepared to undo future edits by American users who think Wikipedia editors have spelled the word "color" incorrectly. Could an editor with appropriate privileges do a move of this page over the Sonic Colours redirect? 212.225.118.10 (talk) 20:03, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
- As long as we're using the logo with the "Color" spelling, I think it would be a poor choice to name the article with "Colour". That's going to lead to all sorts of people changing it back and forth. In general, I don't think anything should be changed yet, there doesn't seem to be consensus here ... Sergecross73 msg me 20:16, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
- Every single region site apart from the USA is using Colours as the spelling even when it's not a word in their own language. It's Colours - best to get it moved and for the ones complaining about the u to just get over it, frankly. Overlord11001001 20:45, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
- As long as we're using the logo with the "Color" spelling, I think it would be a poor choice to name the article with "Colour". That's going to lead to all sorts of people changing it back and forth. In general, I don't think anything should be changed yet, there doesn't seem to be consensus here ... Sergecross73 msg me 20:16, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
- Okay - but be prepared to undo future edits by American users who think Wikipedia editors have spelled the word "color" incorrectly. Could an editor with appropriate privileges do a move of this page over the Sonic Colours redirect? 212.225.118.10 (talk) 20:03, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
- The official SEGA forum seems to be leading with the American spelling. Don't know if that matters. -BaronGrackle (talk) 21:12, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
The article is at "Colors" so it should use Colors. -76.120.128.166 (talk) 01:21, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
- The way the article continuously points out that the 'Colors' is only the US spelling when the article is at Sonic Colors in the first place feels like it's trying to correct the game. But what I came here to say is that the Japanese site is also using the 'Colors' spelling.--Claude (talk) 05:09, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Spin Off?
Looking at the games template, it's listed under "Spin offs". Has it even been confirmed to be a spin off in the first place? Magiciandude (talk) 03:14, 27 May 2010 (UTC)