Talk:Credits

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I think the answer is "Yes, They required it.", but I am not positive. (See citations below.)

Bad example...

"However Hollywood had been releasing films without opening credits for many years before Lucas came along, most notably Citizen Kane and Star Trek: Nemesis, and in Europe, films without opening credits are also commonplace."

Nemesis came out well after Star Wars did, and therfore should be replaced with another exmaple of a movie produced BEFORE star wars that also didn't have opening credits, eh?

Napoleon Dynamite!

Just a thought, in the short smattering of well-known films with memorable opening credits, I would say the "cult hit" ND should also be included/explained (not only was it done with food, but that food was eaten throughout the film, apparently). 199.214.26.180 20:36, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

The Flight Of The Phoenix (1965)

seem to have also a rather extended long opening credit. So whats the longest?

Citations

The areas under recent trends, about Star wars say citation needed. I don't have the citation source readily available at this time (so it would be a poorly written citation), but it is on the bonus disk, included with the special edition box set DVD release of the Star Wars IV-VI trilogy, as bonus material. There is a 2 1/2 hour documentary and such information in included therein. It also addresses the screen actor guild, and I think they also fined Lucas.

STARRING "AS"

sometimes you see in the list of primary actors the actors name and the roles name as he/she plays it ... e.g. in Stargate SG1, Michael Shanks is the only one where is written "as Daniel Jackson". on the other Hand the order represents somewhat the importance with shanks being the last of the list one could argue that the less important are always stated with their role names. however for example in 7th Heaven this doesn't appear to be right either

so maybe there is a specific reason behind the "starring as" in opening credits, it would be great if someone could clear that up — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.146.158.164 (talk) 19:46, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Humorous credits

In the article on closing credits, there is a section on humorous credits. Should there be a similar section in this article? Or is it not that common? One example I could cite is the opening credit sequence of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.    → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 19:26, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Expansion required

The "History" section of the article only refers to opening credits for films/movies, but what about the television industry, where there would be some sort of change in the opening credits from one season of a given show to another? This is obvious for example in soap operas such as "Another World" or "As the World Turns" which began in black and white and then switched to color. --Fandelasketchup (talk) 12:18, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

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Wrong information

The article gives wrong information, in the sense that the credits listed as sample should only be used for movies/films, but not for TV shows, e.g. instead of "(FILM'S TITLE)" TV shows use a Title sequence. Also, why is the word "film" used instead of "movie" if the Wikimedia Foundation is based in the US? --Fandelasketchup (talk) 13:31, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Someone Changed the Opening Credits

The person changed to Fake Calliou Gets Ungrounded Movie Tim Pun (talk) 10:24, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 26 June 2026

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. To the base name, per clear consensus for it being WP:PLURALPT. I was actually monitoring this thread because I suspected it may easily reach consensus much quicker than the full week a relisting adds, but I nonetheless appreciate the effort made to let me know that a clear consensus had formed. (closed by non-admin page mover) –Maltazarian ^{ᚾparley$\lor$investigateᛅ} 07:30, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

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Opening credits → Credits (film and television) – "Closing credits" was recently merged with this article. I am RedoStone (talk) 15:38, 26 June 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. –Maltazarian ^{ᚾparley$\lor$investigateᛅ} 16:57, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

Support Having both opening and closing credits info in the article named "Opening credits" makes little sense. Dabmasterars [RU/COM] (talk/contribs) 17:05, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

Support per nominator's rationale. FaviFake (talk) 17:38, 27 June 2026 (UTC)

Move to credits, with a hatnote to Debits and credits. Almost nothing in the disambiguation page Credit (disambiguation) could be referred to in the plural, since "credit" in general is an uncountable noun. This is almost unambiguous and there's no reason not to just have this be the primary topic. Ladtrack (talk) 22:18, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

Move to Credits per Ladtrack FaviFake (talk) 22:35, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

Move to Credits per above. Clear case of PLURALPT. 1isall (talk | contribs) 12:46, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

Move to Credits – per above. Perhaps a disambig hatnote could be added just to be safe. Bravelake (talk) 18:27, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

Relisting comment: WP:PLURALPT or not? –Maltazarian ^{ᚾparley$\lor$investigateᛅ} 16:57, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

I don't think anyone has suggested singular version, I don't understand the relist. FaviFake (talk) 17:51, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

I'm just as confused as you are. 1isall (talk | contribs) 17:57, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

It's not about plural vs singular. There is a clear consensus for the article being titled "Credits". There is no consensus about whether or not it's primary topic for "Credits". 3 editors support Credits (PLURALPT) and 2 editors support Credits (film and television) (not PLURALPT). I don't see what else I could have done here considering it's just 3v2 word against word. –Maltazarian ^{ᚾparley$\lor$investigateᛅ} 18:03, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

That makes sense. It doesn't sound like @I am RedoStone and @Dabmasterars were as convinced of Credits (film and television) as we are of Credits, though. It was just the first suggestion that came up. FaviFake (talk) 19:56, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

Honestly, move the page wherever you want, as long as the current name "Opening credits" will be turned into a redirect. Oh, and I agree there was no need in relisting the discussion. Dabmasterars [RU/COM] (talk/contribs) 20:21, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

Great! @Maltazarian, in theory you should now be able to close the discussion. A relisted discussion may be closed once consensus is determined, without necessarily waiting for another seven days. FaviFake (talk) 20:29, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

• Move to credits per others. WP:PLURALPT. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 01:05, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

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