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Requesting move to mainspace

I have started a request for this article to be moved to the mainspace, as principle photography has been confirmed to have commenced by the film's actors.--DisneyMetalhead (talk) 05:21, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

FYI - The requested move is posted on the Technical requests.--DisneyMetalhead (talk) 05:21, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 2 May 2022

The request to rename this article to Expend4bles has been carried out.

If the page title has consensus, be sure to close this discussion using {{subst:RM top|'''page moved'''.}} and {{subst:RM bottom}} and remove the {{Requested move/dated|…}} tag, or replace it with the {{subst:Requested move/end|…}} tag.

The Expendables 4 → Expend4bles – The title of this film was announced at Cinema Con 2022 to be Expend4bles with a 4 instead of an A, not The Expendables 4, both on the posters and trailer: BarrySteakfries (talk) 17:45, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comic Book: The Expendables 4 Gets Title "Looks like the title of #theexpendables4 is 'Expend4bles'"

Collider: 'Expend4bles' Trailer Revealed at CinemaCon

Cinema Blend: The Expendables 4 Gets A Title That’s Not Actually Expendables 4, Plus A Rough And Tumble First Look With Megan Fox And Jason Statham Getting Steamy

IGN: The Next Expendables Is Officially Called Expend4bles - CinemaCon 2022

The A.V. Club: Expend4bles, John Wick, and The Hunger Games: All the whiplash from Lionsgate’s CinemaCon panel

OPPOSE: "Both posters and the trailer" means it's marketing and stylization, as already noted in the article. Not the actual title. If it was announced as the title, the Universal representative who presented the trailer would have stated so. "Looks like" is not "is" and on that same source you don't even get the attribution correct, linking one website to a different one. Scream 4 is not at Scre4m, and Fantastic Four (2015 film) is not at FANT4STIC or Fant4stic (2015 film). CreecregofLife (talk) 17:52, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I checked both now-bolded articles: IGN just goes by the poster (again, marketing stylization) and CinemaBlend doesn't even have that. Nothing official about it to say the stylization is the actual title. CreecregofLife (talk) 19:11, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

oppose per MOS:TM—blindlynx 18:33, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per MOS:TM. It does not mean that we cannot mention Expend4bles as a stylization in the opening sentence. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 19:56, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Which it already is CreecregofLife (talk) 20:00, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, only noting that it would not be absent from the article body if we kept the move. Your Scream 4 example is also a good one -- while the poster shows SCRE4AM, the billing block writes Scream 4. So it's perhaps possible that the film would be titled Expendables 4, dropping "The"? Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 23:40, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The Deadline article keeps "The", but we'll see CreecregofLife (talk) 23:47, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]