RATLSNAKE said:

The moment I saw the author refer to this movie as 'A New Hope', I stopped reading & died a little inside. ... When you have a few million small parts like this, you get a world where it's accepted ... :(

Hear! Hear!
So ... would someone with an account on Wikipedia go to George Lucas filmography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lucas_filmography to correct this entry ..

.. and edit the 1977 entry name of "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" back to "Star Wars", with a "Notes" entry to indicate that the name was changed to "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" in 1981 for Lucas' "Special Edition" re-edit? (Use "Star Wars: The Changes - Part One" http://www.dvdactive.com/editorial/articles/star-wars-the-changes-part-one.html as a reference if you can't find a better one.) Because a tearful ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi is watching from beyond the force ...

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Oops, grabbed the date from the wrong picture-caption (Fox logo). I've corrected it above from "1997" to "1981". Thanks for the catch, yoda-sama & CatBus!