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Some comments to the new layout for editing
posted by SamaraSTAFFMOD on November 18, 2014 at 7:10 PM
I just saw the new layout for editing movies and I think it's not very practical to handle because for example here https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/285064-nicht-nur-zur-weihnachtszeit/edit The movie has an original german title so there is no need for a field for a translating german title and no need for fields translating german tagline or overview as well and I think this is the same with all other languages here and I'm afraid that there will be many strange entries in the future in these fields, if anyone tries to translate where there is no reason to translate, just my thoughts about it
Reply by Travis Bell
on November 18, 2014 at 8:22 PM
Hi Samara,
This has been a long time coming as we've never had a way to tell what the language of an original entry is. It has no impact on the actual translation, it's just a way that we can differentiate original titles from translations. The original title has always operated separate from translations.
By default, the original title language is set to the language the entry was created in so in your example you don't need to do anything.
You can see this is all connected up if you go to the contribute page.