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::* 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]]. | ||
::*While article names can ''usually'' contain a colon (:), they cannot ''always'' do so, if the words preceding the colon have a meaning. The most pertinent example on this wiki are the various [[Big Finish]] articles beginning with ''Project:'', like ''[[Project Twilight (audio story)|Project: Twilight]]''. Because ''Project:'' refers to the project [[namespace]], what you're really saying if you type {{tt|<nowiki>[[Project: Twilight]]''</nowiki>}} is equivalent to typing {{tt|<nowiki>[[Tardis: Twilight]]</nowiki>}}. Thus, in order to properly represent the title of the audio on this wiki, you have to rather laboriously type {{tt|<nowiki>''[[Project Twilight (audio story)|Project: Twilight]]''</nowiki>}} to italicise and [[pipe trick]] it to the correct name. But the proper page name must be ''sans'' colon. | ::*While article names can ''usually'' contain a colon (:), they cannot ''always'' do so, if the words preceding the colon have a meaning. The most pertinent example on this wiki are the various [[Big Finish]] articles beginning with ''Project:'', like ''[[Project Twilight (audio story)|Project: Twilight]]''. Because ''Project:'' refers to the project [[namespace]], what you're really saying if you type {{tt|<nowiki>[[Project: Twilight]]''</nowiki>}} is equivalent to typing {{tt|<nowiki>[[Tardis: Twilight]]</nowiki>}}. Thus, in order to properly represent the title of the audio on this wiki, you have to rather laboriously type {{tt|<nowiki>''[[Project Twilight (audio story)|Project: Twilight]]''</nowiki>}} to italicise and [[pipe trick]] it to the correct name. But the proper page name must be ''sans'' colon. | ||
::*Articles cannot have more than one set of parentheses, because this inhibits proper [[pipe trick]]ing, which a number of automatic templates depend upon. A good example is [[The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (TV story)]]. Since the (TV story) is necessary to the operation of many templates, the (ish) must be dropped, in favour of the following approximation: [[The Fiveish Doctors Reboot (TV story)]]. | ::*Articles cannot have more than one set of parentheses, because this inhibits proper [[pipe trick]]ing, which a number of automatic templates depend upon. A good example is [[The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (TV story)]]. Since the (TV story) is necessary to the operation of many templates, the (ish) must be dropped, in favour of the following approximation: [[The Fiveish Doctors Reboot (TV story)]]. Likewise, there are cases in which multiple colons (:) or hyphens (-) may be restricted. | ||
::* 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. | ||
