Hi all, I've been looking around in the help and through different forum entries for this problem. The only mention I found was in this post.

The problem, as I identify it, is that IMDb is used as absolute reference but they don't use any non-latin alphabet in their entries so all titles are romanized. Some examples of this:

• Ip Man: both Ip Man and Yip Man are acceptable translations, original title is 葉問 (traditional chinese as this is the alphhabet used in Hong Kong)
• The Chinese Feast: they get the original title as "Jin yu man tang" but this is simply the pinyin (romanized Chinese) for 金玉滿堂.

I could put a lot of other examples but I don't think it would make more of a point.

The help page concerning original titles:

Original title vs. translated field?

For english movies, original title should be the english title and the translated title for english should be left blank. For foreign movies like Amélie, the original title should be filled out as "Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" while the english translated title is "Amélie".

As I understand it, the original title should be the original title.

My suggestion is that original titles are actually written in the original alphabet/language (thinking about Korean, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Thai, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, etc). The translated title stands as it is and romanized versions of the title should be put in title aliases. I made this entry following that rule.

To make this extremely clear, it should be added to the help page along with some examples and an exception to the IMDb information checking rule.

I'm writing this in the hope of creating a good discussion on the subject and finding a clear decision on the matter. I'm still new on this website so I hope I'm not offending anybdy or raising a question that was already clearly answered. If it is the case, I'm sorry but the change to the help should still be made so the rule is clearly defined.