Talk:There's...Johnny!

Merge into There's... Johnny!

There already exists an article for this show. If there are additions to be made, they should be there. If there's reason to move it, it should be brought up for discussion. --Nat Gertler (talk) 22:45, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Fair enough, I concede that I should have gone ahead and initiated a discussion. Please see below. – BoogerD (talk) 22:52, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Merger proposal

I propose that There's... Johnny! be merged into There's...Johnny!. The first article is not written in a grammatically correct manner consistent with Wikipedia naming conventions or in the manner that NBCUniversal has expressed it is to be written. Had I known that the other article already existed, I would have moved it to the correct title before rewriting it. – BoogerD (talk) 22:52, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

I don't see any NBCUniversal source listed on the article. I see a variety of sources, which are inconsistent in the name, but with There's... Johnny! being the most common. It is also most in line with the title card. --Nat Gertler (talk) 23:04, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

And here is an NBCUniversal press release. It's THERE’S… JOHNNY!, with the space after the ellipsis, both in the title and the body of the press release. --Nat Gertler (talk) 23:15, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Fair point about the NBCUniversal claim. I thought I had read that in one of the articles. As far as consistency among various sources, these sources include the space ([1]) and these sources do not ([2] [3] [4] [5], [6], [7]). This article ([8]) writes the title with two spaces and another three articles/webpages ([9] [10] [11]) include mentions with two spaces and mentions without any.

Seeso posted an announcement regarding the service's closure on their official Facebook page on August 9, 2017 where they spelled it with no spaces ([12] [13]). – BoogerD (talk) 23:31, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Also, Hulu uses no spaces as well [14]. – BoogerD (talk) 23:33, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Checking the sources for the extant article:

• Hollywood Reporter uses two spaces
• ID10T uses no spaces (but four dots.)
• IMDb uses one space
• Deadline uses two spaces in header... and no ellipsis in body of article, here
• indywire uses both one space and no space repeatedly in same article, for copyediting is a dead art, but consistently uses one space here, and no space here.

• Rotten Tomatoes: one space
• Metacritic - one space
• LA Times, one space

Thus we prove that, ummm, the folks at Indiewire are an enemy to the public, I think. --Nat Gertler (talk) 23:54, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Seriously, I've done quite a bit of editing on television-related articles and therefore read through my share of sources. Never before have I seen such inconsistency. But, wow, I don't even know what to say about IndieWire. That's another level. – BoogerD (talk) 04:44, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Hey, I did a lot of the more recent work on the other wiki page for theres johnny. I am a new editor (i just joined 4 days ago, after seeing the original theres johnny page to be a stub). I'm sorry if i made some mistakes. Regarding the spelling of the show, I simply added on to the page that already existed, i'm not exactly sure what is correct. I've also accidently just uploaded another title card because I didn't see you had uploaded one already. I'm assuming you are working on merging the two pages? or should i? let me know if you need anything. MehAlexander (talk) 00:30, 29 August 2018 (UTC)