Talk:The Fast and the Furious (film series)

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[edit] Naming

Nice article. Good job. I'm just wondering, shouldn't it be named "The Fast and the Furious (series)"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by MrStalker (talk • contribs) 21:05, February 8, 2008

Thanks, I've considered doing this since it kept popping up at AFD, so I figured this would be a fairly acceptable substitute, no matter how the fourth film's article proceeds. I'm not sure about the use of parentheses, though. I don't think there is a standard. While there is Spider-Man film series, Batman film series, and Superman film series, there's also Pirates of the Caribbean (film series). Do you have any substantive opinion about why parentheses should be used? I think that both capture the general idea, though I guess I would prefer no parentheses because for examples like Batman and Superman, we don't call the overall series Batman or Superman. I think we've avoided calling them "Batman films" or "Superman films" because there are other films related to it, especially animated ones. For this film, there's a 1955 film, but it's not connected to the 21st century ones. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 01:41, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, the only thing I could find about is this, which says it should be named "Film Title (film series)". I don't know if the parentheses matters so much though, but if you follow the guideline by word I guess the article should be named "The Fast and the Furious (film series)". At WP:VG, where I do most of my contributions, we say that the disabmig. always should be as short as possible, hence just the "(series)". But that's our guideline so per WP:FILM it should be "(film series)". --MrStalker ^(talk) 09:26, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

My last point to make is if we actually reference the article itself in another article, we have to rewrite in the piped link to exclude parentheses. (Though I guess we could call it "the film series The Fast and the Furious...) Feel free to make the move with the naming conventions. Perhaps the other ones need addressing; I've just been accustomed to that setup, so I emulated it here. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 14:05, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

I think it's probably best to follow WP:NCF. Page moved. --MrStalker ^(talk) 15:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Future film

Also, I'm not sure about using {{Future film}} in the article, as it's technically not an upcoming film. It's a project in development with people figuring out what resources and how much of it to invest at this point. There are quite a few films that have been in development for quite some time, yet they can't truly be called "upcoming" as they don't get across the threshold to actually be made. Couple of examples off the top of my head are Logan's Run (2010 film) and Fahrenheit 451 (2009 film). —Erik (talk • contrib) - 14:12, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough. I'll remove the template. --MrStalker ^(talk) 15:14, 9 February 2008 (UTC)