WikiIndex talk:Naming conventions: Difference between revisions

This idea has its drawbacks, but I still support it: the wiki software shouldn't change the page title to start with a capital letter. Then we could spell the names of wikis as their community wants. Notice that the articles that have a common noun as their title wouldn't have it capitalized (like "some article"). But we could make capitalized redirects to them (like "Some article" ­→ "some article"). Non-capitalized common nouns simply occur more often than capitalized, because there can be a capitalized common nouns only in the beginning of the sentence, in a bulleted list, and probably also in some other special contexts that I don't remember now.  

The drawback is that this kind of titles likely annoy some people. But also the current practise is going to annoy someone. People in Wikipedia regularly complain how they have article titles like EBay. Case-sensitivity of the first character was turned on in English Wiktionary, so this approach isn't something completely new.

{|border="1"

|-style="font-weight:bold"

|| Article title ||What it looks like

||Common noun || ''article''

||Proper noun || How it is properly spelled: ''Wikipedia''

||Several words || ''example article''; ''comparison to Wikipedia''

|-style="font-weight:bold"

||Category title || What it looks like

||Common noun || ''Category:Maintainance''

||Proper noun || ''Category:WikiIndex''

||Several words || ''Category:Helping WikiIndex''; ''Category:Guides for editors''

Naming guidelines discussion can move to [[CamelCase or Free links or both]] - I lost in an edit conflict what I had wrote here about the subject, will get back to it later, Best [[MarkDilley]]