First, i didn't know the No-Intro rules, second, seeing some titles at the database with different capitalization confused me (some french, spanish and german ones).

Third, my only intention was and is, helping the project, i'm here since 2007 (psxdb) and i love the project. This is something that obviously sometimes i do wrong.

Regards.

F1ReB4LL, I understood it was copyrighted as any game title is copyrighted. I don't understand why you follow Mame which don't have a DB <---> rom real association but only a GUI where they put names (sometimes wrongly), instead of console releases where the name is always different.
We can put "beatmania" as Alt title, same for every IMO wrong title like this one http://redump.org/disc/6891/

It has nothing to do with any flamewar, it is about "clarification" regarding which are the proper ways of do the job; and in this particular case, it is about the respectfully manner of following some predetermined set of rules, according to the naming standards that Redump.org adopted.

Now, I know the English word "Manager" was adopted as a loanword by the Spanish idiom and that according to the "Real Academia Española" the "currently" proper writing is "Mánager", but as said by Rocknroms:

That is the core point of all this, whatever be the proper writing rules according to the official conventions of each specific language, there is useless here.

Could you imagine the hypothetical situation under which all the names in the db have to be written following the particular languages' rules of every idiom?

That's because there are common standards.

The orthographic errors will be determined by the naming standards adopted by Redump.org, not by specific the writing rules of every idiom.

So, it would be good to know exactly which are the Redump.org's naming conventions. 

As I said before, I think the mods. and admins have to do their jobs according to certain "standards" and not "the way they want to", because that's basically the aim of the standards.

Finally, I think every time somebody have to report something regarding a "suspicious" game title, alternate title,  etc., they should have to do it only if they think there was a naming standards' violation; and not because they thought a title looked "ugly".

Regards.

P.D.

If you follow the No-Intro's naming rules, I think those titles should be written like this:

007: Der Morgen Stirbt Nie
007: Die Welt Ist Nicht Genug
Manager de Liga
Monde des Bleus, Le: Le Jeu Officiel de l'Equipe de France
Tombi 2: Contra los Cerdiablos
Versalles: Complot en la Corte del Rey Sol

Devcon, I have already said it above: NO-INTRO RULES ARE THE SAME FOR ALL LANGUAGES, even in English those capitalized titles should look weird but this is the rule.

So these titles at the database are correct, and all follow the No-Intro namig rules?:

007: Der Morgen stirbt nie
007: Die Welt ist nicht genug
Manager de liga
Monde des Bleus, Le: Le jeu officiel de l'équipe de France
Tombi 2: Contra los cerdiablos
Versalles: Complot en la corte del Rey Sol

For example, beatmania is a trademark, it can't be written in any other form and definetely not as "Beat Mania", like now.

Obviously copyrighted stuff should be left as they are (LEGO, NiGHTS, etc.), but your example is quite wrong and out of contest because the guide talk about capitalization and not minimation, so at least it should be BeatMania (and most of times on cover it's written "beat mania", so now what we are going to do?). Well, however if I remember well you want also Japanese titles in kanji, very usefull and rational

Devcon, I have already said it above: NO-INTRO RULES ARE THE SAME FOR ALL LANGUAGES, even in English those capitalized titles should look weird but this is the rule.

I'm sorry to say that i don't like spanglish.

Well, i don't want to start a flamewar in anyway. If the no-intro rules are the same for all the languages then it's ok.

The fact is i was just trying to help, and i was just pointing at some orthographic errors i found.

But well i don't care anymore, you can capitalize the way you want but expect to see from time to time someone like me poking on the forums because some titles looks ugly at their native language.

Regards.

MacGruber, you are completely RIGHT!

I don't understand what's the meaning of this discussion and it's not the first time. I know also that admin, Fireball, has some weird thoughts.

Titles can be written in any way on covers, any language doesn't use capitalization, even English, unless for names of people, countries, istitutions and so on.
What we use it's simply a convention (not only no-intro, but this convention was used by anyone) and has nothing to do with grammatic rules: everything must be capitalized unless "articles", some "conjunctions" and some "prepositions" ***

For example, beatmania is a trademark, it can't be written in any other form and definetely not as "Beat Mania", like now.

M00NLiGHT any advise to ^this^ title? >>> Dragon Ball Z: La grande legende des Boules de Cristal ?

La Grande Légende des Boules de Cristal is ok
Source: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Z_Legends

I don't understand what's the meaning of this discussion and it's not the first time. I know also that admin, Fireball, has some weird thoughts.

Titles can be written in any way on covers, any language doesn't use capitalization, even English, unless for names of people, countries, istitutions and so on.
What we use it's simply a convention (not only no-intro, but this convention was used by anyone) and has nothing to do with grammatic rules: everything must be capitalized unless "articles", some "conjunctions" and some "prepositions" ***

File generator contains only ASCII chars and it should be like this becouse of CONVENTION and because it could be a mess for people and/or programs that cannot handle other charsets. Titles with particoular chars can be set as "Alternative titles"

EDIT: *** I edit and add "some" because I don't know how all those were considered in English but Latin Languages don't make any difference.

Aren't Redump.org using the No-Intro's naming convention? Doesn't all the titles in the db have to respect the rules from that standard?

I mean, according to "The Official No-Intro Convention (20071030)", in the "2.1.3 Capitalization" section says:

So, under these rules, these titles are indeed right written:

"007 - El Mundo Nunca Es Suficiente (Spain)"

"Ciudad de los Niños Perdidos, La"

Now, it will all depend of which naming standards are Redump.org's currently using.

But looking at Devcon's advices, it seems to be he wants that all the Spanish game titles in the db use the "Real Academia Española" rules, not the No-Intro's rules or whatever be the standard Redump.org is using.

Under that particular point of view, every game in the db that belongs to a non-english speaking country, should be written according to the specific and official idiom's rules of said countries, and not according to a certain Redump.org's predefined naming convention.

So, as I said, it will all depend of what naming convention do you use: the official's idioms conventions, the No-Intro convention, the MusicBrainz's convention, etc.

How do you know they wrote it wrong? Did you know which are the standards they used?

Again, where did you found that name? Look at these pics:

In those pics. weren't never mentioned the accentuated, loanword "Mánager", contrarily the developers used the original English word. Moreover, according to No-Intro naming convention or the title itself, the right title should be:

"Manager de Liga"

And if you read the "Real Academia Española" rules, you will find that even under those rules, you can write the next game titles without any problems at all:

"007 - El Mundo Nunca Es Suficiente (Spain)"

"Ciudad de los Niños Perdidos, La"

"Manager de Liga"

"Disney - El Planeta del Tesoro"

The above titles are within these rules:

Regards.

P.D. Please don't take wrong any of my above comments, I'm not pretending to be a smartass. I'm just trying to help, as all the rest of members that make constructive critics.