Automated system incorrectly capitalizing some titles

@Peter_pbn​ I guess the problem is not just with the automation, but also with overly rigid rules. I've gotten frustrated with IMDb's policy-makers/enforcers for similar situations in the past.

I may have gotten carried away with the examples I found. Not all of them are as straightforwardly bad as the worst offenders. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), for example, is listed with the lowercase "the" in many resources, not just IMDb. When it comes to some of the others on this list, particularly the first three, the lack of capitalization just looks plain wrong.

Regarding the strict written policy, I think the issue here is that the titles I've highlighted are sort of a special case: in a way, they are simultaneously one title and also two separate titles that just happen to be merged together. By this logic, the word "the" is at the end of the title, if not in the most technical sense, then in an intuitive, not-quite-as-literal sense.

Just look at the title card for The Dover Boys cartoon. It's blatantly obvious that these are supposed to be read as two different versions of the title, not one inexplicably long sentence. They even have separate quotation marks around each. The automated system capitalizes it as if it were one single thought, as if the title is a question asking us to choose between the "Dover Boys at Pimento University" or the "Rivals of Roquefort Hall", rather than just being a tongue-in-cheek way of giving the film two overly-serious sounding titles. It just looks very silly.

Whether IMDb chooses to acknowledge and fix this issue or just ignore it is out of my hands, I guess. But it's clear to me that they need to either change the rules or change the way the rules are being applied. The way it's set up currently just ain't doing it.

@Bethanny​ I tried doing this before posting, it does not work. The system automatically "corrects" the capitalization before the user can submit.

In my second attempt, I tried just deleting the alternate name altogether, which I assumed would cause it to revert to the original title. This submission came back as "badly formatted."

@timothy_gray_el34lojg1aih1​ I will manually fix the titles, will let you know when they are :)

@Bethanny​ 

Not everyone will come here to get you to make edits when the site does not allow them.

@timothy_gray_el34lojg1aih1​ Hi! I have fixed the titles above and sent information to team in charge for visibility of possible future improvements.

Cheers!