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How do we get this one renamed Project: Twilight instead of Tardis:Twilight?
How do we get this one renamed Project: Twilight instead of Tardis:Twilight?
:I don't think we can. It seems the only way is to take away the hyphen and have it as "Project Twilight". {{:User:Ghelæ/sig}} 15:57, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
:: Why can't we just rename it / move it to Project: Twilight?
::--[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 13:12, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
::Because whenever a prefex "Project:" is added, it automatically is renamed "Tardis:" on this wiki, like "Wikipedia" on Wikipedia, etc, which is the reason it's named as it is now. And if you don't believe me, follow this link:
::*[[Project:About]]
::And if you think I'm using a piped link, then look at the code on the edit page. {{:User:Ghelæ/sig}} 15:50, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
:::Ah...of course, I knew my straight forward suggestion would have a logical answer.
:::Well just substitue it for a - (hyphen), that's close enough and then put one of those "The correct title of this article is iPod. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions." Except change it to suit our page (I grabbed that off the wikipedia ipod page). --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 16:23, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
::::Actually, the Wikipedia pages have a code which actually changes the title to the correct title in some web browsers - in IE7 (which I use), after about half-a-second the message dissapears and the title "IPod" is replaced with "iPod". So perhaps we could that too. {{:User:Ghelæ/sig}} 18:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
:::::Yeah Firefox changes it to iPod as well, but I can't work out how it does it, perhaps (for the time being) we should just change it to a (-) or something similar. Then (hopefully) in the future someone will fix it. Isn't it better to have a very minor change, than a pretty mangled title name for an entry? --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 13:05, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
::::::It's some code in the .css or the .js, I think. Anyway, yes, it's better to have a slightly-odd page name rather than ''completely and utterly in the wrong namespace''. {{:User:Ghelæ/sig}} 15:53, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
:Well, some IP's moved it to [[Project Twilight (audio story)|Project Twilight]]. I take it that's okay. {{:User:Ghelæ/sig}} 21:08, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Latest revision as of 17:33, 24 January 2013

How do we get this one renamed Project: Twilight instead of Tardis:Twilight?

I don't think we can. It seems the only way is to take away the hyphen and have it as "Project Twilight". ~ Ghelæ -talk-contribs 15:57, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Why can't we just rename it / move it to Project: Twilight?
--Tangerineduel 13:12, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Because whenever a prefex "Project:" is added, it automatically is renamed "Tardis:" on this wiki, like "Wikipedia" on Wikipedia, etc, which is the reason it's named as it is now. And if you don't believe me, follow this link:
And if you think I'm using a piped link, then look at the code on the edit page. ~ Ghelæ -talk-contribs 15:50, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Ah...of course, I knew my straight forward suggestion would have a logical answer.
Well just substitue it for a - (hyphen), that's close enough and then put one of those "The correct title of this article is iPod. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions." Except change it to suit our page (I grabbed that off the wikipedia ipod page). --Tangerineduel 16:23, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Actually, the Wikipedia pages have a code which actually changes the title to the correct title in some web browsers - in IE7 (which I use), after about half-a-second the message dissapears and the title "IPod" is replaced with "iPod". So perhaps we could that too. ~ Ghelæ -talk-contribs 18:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Yeah Firefox changes it to iPod as well, but I can't work out how it does it, perhaps (for the time being) we should just change it to a (-) or something similar. Then (hopefully) in the future someone will fix it. Isn't it better to have a very minor change, than a pretty mangled title name for an entry? --Tangerineduel 13:05, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
It's some code in the .css or the .js, I think. Anyway, yes, it's better to have a slightly-odd page name rather than completely and utterly in the wrong namespace. ~ Ghelæ -talk-contribs 15:53, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Well, some IP's moved it to Project Twilight. I take it that's okay. ~ Ghelæ -talk-contribs 21:08, 14 March 2007 (UTC)