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Question about the punctionation in Jim Henson Idea Man. The Disney+ press site, the Imagine Documentaries production description, and the Vanity Fair First Look don't include a colon in the title. Nor does the title logo have one (but that could just be a stylistic design choice). The official social media promotion hasn't used a colon either but most posts are complicated by the use of hashtaging the title as "Jim Henson #IdeaMan." Now the Imagine Documentaries production page title does include a colon (the only offical use I can find of the title having a colon) but the rest of the page the the press releases have the film titled sans-colon. It may be pedantic, but what does our style guide say about punctuation in titles? -- BradFraggle (talk) 18:52, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

I don't think a single title for which we, and other resources, use a colon to separate segments actually show the colon on the cover, title card, or what have you. It's a grammatical gesture that's inserted to punctuate the expansion of the description. Disney/Imagine's lack of using a colon is just a stylistic choice specifically for their PR copy, but it should be used as it's proper and consistent with other naming conventions on and off wiki. —Scott latest?cb=20200820192427 (talk) 20:09, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Agreed. There's a long tradition of movie posters/screen titles/book covers having a larger title and then a subtitle, and they're treated distinctly (usually a colon, occasionally a dash if that's what becomes standardized by the studio or publisher) by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Film Institute, and *usually* Wikipedia and IMDb (I list them last because being user generated, a lot of that is just how someone chose to add it). Often copyright registries or the small print will use the colon as well. As for our approach, see Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story, etc. which have no on screen punctuation. When it comes out, if for some reason everyone consistently decides to treat it as a single runon, we can discuss it, but right now there's no reason to break with convention. -- Andrew Emoji-droolAdminsig 20:16, 11 April 2024 (UTC)