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Item: Οι ληστές του χρόνου

Language: el-GR

Type of Problem: Incorrect_content

Extra Details: Unlock the Greek title and let me correct it.

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This is the exact spelling used by Apple https://i.postimg.cc/LXJ5NBqq/Screenshot-2024-08-21-at-15-23-13.jpg https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/jD7slqzGJbVNUraLTucr2cAtT1H.png (all caps)

What's wrong with it? Just curious.

That thing you present is a rough plain text. The proper title by Greek Grammar rules is "Οι Ληστές του Χρόνου".

So does Greek also always use title case for their titles, like English? Apple TV+ for example mostly writes their titles like this, with only the first letter capitalized, in comparison to Netflix that does title case.
I'm open to changing it to your spelling, I'm just a little confused as to whether this is a must-do for Greek titles!

A little off-topic, but for songs, also works of art, Musicbrainz instructs to only apply regular Greek grammar to titles and only capitalize the first letter: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Language/Greek

Yes, we have almost the same rules as in English language and I've discussed this subject years ago with another moderator giving him proof about that on web sites & bibliography that had to do with philologists' discussions on our Grammar rules. I don't know who wrote that "MusicBrains" but he's obviously not Greek or he doesn't know the rules for given titles to works of art like movies, music records, paintings, books, comics, etc.

I've noticed that you himself Shei have register Greek titles wrong, locking them afterwords. Why all of you do not involve with your own language instead of ruining titles you don't know their languages' rules? You run out of titles in your language? Let alone Greek titles for those we truly know and try to correct them properly. After all, we are the ones that using them and no one else and the Calling on this database was on those who want to complete their own language titles and information.

As for "Apple TV+", "Netflix", "Disney+", "Prime Video" etc. I've told you plenty of times all these years that is ridiculous to get as a source a scribbled text found on each network's page, by whoever was on shift that night preparing their website presenting that text as a "source". I used to think you were smarter than that when I came in, but a few years now I'm changing my mind to the contrary more and more. You can find whole titles in capitals, with the first letter as capital or the way I show you in all those networks and web channels, even in logos by someone who sketched that each logo in a rough way. So which is the correct one? Those who type such titles are uneducated people who are placed in this post and arrange these topics in a sloppy way. Stop being formulaic and try to think for once. You work in a database that need to have accurate data, not in a playground. Not any network or channel anywhere can dictate Grammar rules for fuck sake. Each language has its own and those should be followed.

Finally, as for music, the largest music database worldwide is that of "Discogs", which contributors try to register every single version of every single music record ever existed, even demos, rehearsals, bootlegs and so on, in every format! So go check how they register Greek titles of every record and every song in Greek language: https://www.discogs.com/search/?limit=250&country=Greece&page=1

By capitalizing first letter of each word. That is wrong too, but I presume it was started years ago by people that knew the titles need to have some words' first letters in upper case but they didn't knew which categories of words, so they started to do that in each word and younger contributors unfortunately followed that way. That is wrong too but it's definitely better than having lower case letters except first word's. It's more accurate and can be accepted by the Academic Community.

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