Talk:Vénus aveugle

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This article was created under the title "Vénus aveugle" but it has now been moved to the English heading "Blind Venus". The original was chosen because the evidence showed that to be the most commonly used title, and this was checked in a range of English-language sources: (a) in standard histories and dictionaries of film, e.g. The Oxford History of World Cinema, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (David Thomson); (b) in books about French cinema, e.g. The French Cinema Book (M. Temple and M. Witt); (c) in the principal public online databases, e.g. New York Times: Movies, BFI Film & TV Database, AllMovie; All of them use the original title. Results from Google, for locating further material support this: "venus aveugle" = 1680, "blind venus" = 652, with many of the latter being unrelated to the film. "Blind Venus" is plainly the translation of the title, but there seems to be no evidence that the film was ever distributed under an English title. Anyone wanting to cross-reference the Wikipedia article with other sources, listings, indexes, should be using the original title. In this case, applying the "use English" (WP:UE) guideline in support of a title-change has had the effect of subverting rather than supporting Wikipedia's fundamental naming policy, i.e. using the form of title in most common use. All the arguments would seem to favour leaving the article where it started. Lampernist (talk) 18:07, 15 April 2009 (UTC)