Bureaucrats, content-moderator, emailconfirmed, Administrators (Semantic MediaWiki), Curators (Semantic MediaWiki), Administrators, threadmoderator
85,404
edits
Tardis:Naming conventions: Difference between revisions
From Tardis Wiki, the free Doctor Who reference
no edit summary
(Created page with "{{mosnav|c=naming conventions}} {{sc|T:NAMING}} The core '''naming conventions''' of this wiki are that: ::* Article names should be in singular form, not plural. So: '''Tim...") |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
::* Unless the name of the article contains a proper noun, only the first word should be capitalised. | ::* Unless the name of the article contains a proper noun, only the first word should be capitalised. | ||
== Technical limitations == | |||
::* Ampersands ('''&''') should never replace the word "and", unless the credit actually contains one, or the title actually uses one. For instance, the ampersands in [[Northwest Imaging & FX]] and ''[[Love & Monsters]]'' are fine, but ''[[Mad Dogs & Englishmen]]'' is incorrect, since the title is ''[[Mad Dogs and Englishmen]]''. (The deciding forum discussion is [[Forum:"&" or "and"?|here]].) | ::* Ampersands ('''&''') should never replace the word "and", unless the credit actually contains one, or the title actually uses one. For instance, the ampersands in [[Northwest Imaging & FX]] and ''[[Love & Monsters]]'' are fine, but ''[[Mad Dogs & Englishmen]]'' is incorrect, since the title is ''[[Mad Dogs and Englishmen]]''. (The deciding forum discussion is [[Forum:"&" or "and"?|here]].) | ||
::* Article names cannot contain the characters |, #, <, >, {, }, [, and ]. For advice about how to handle a page which ''should'' include one of these characters, like [[2 entertain|2{{!}}entertain]] or [[Man 1|Man #1]], please see [[:Template:wrongname|this discussion]]. | ::* Article names cannot contain the characters |, #, <, >, {, }, [, and ]. For advice about how to handle a page which ''should'' include one of these characters, like [[2 entertain|2{{!}}entertain]] or [[Man 1|Man #1]], please see [[:Template:wrongname|this discussion]]. | ||
::* It is technically ''possible'' for article titles to contain single quotation marks, and it usually works without incident. After all, a single quotation mark is simply an apostrophe. However, it's recommended that single quotation marks be replaced by double quotation marks, especially when the article title needs to be italicised. This is because the single quotation mark has a meaning in [[Help:wiki markup|wiki markup]], whereas the double quotation mark does not. | ::* It is technically ''possible'' for article titles to contain single quotation marks, and it usually works without incident. After all, a single quotation mark is simply an apostrophe. However, it's recommended that single quotation marks be replaced by double quotation marks, especially when the article title needs to be italicised. This is because the single quotation mark has a meaning in [[Help:wiki markup|wiki markup]], whereas the double quotation mark does not. | ||
