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::::Other wise, I'd just be willing to do that; TARDIS Index File, the/a Doctor Who Wiki. | ::::Other wise, I'd just be willing to do that; TARDIS Index File, the/a Doctor Who Wiki. | ||
::::The two other DW wikis I can think of is Doctor Who Expanded Wiki and Doctor Who Fanon, and they write their titles just as "Doctor Who Expanded" and "Doctor Who Fanon". --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 15:34, December 26, 2009 (UTC) | ::::The two other DW wikis I can think of is Doctor Who Expanded Wiki and Doctor Who Fanon, and they write their titles just as "Doctor Who Expanded" and "Doctor Who Fanon". --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 15:34, December 26, 2009 (UTC) | ||
:::::Well, an html page title isn't the same thing as a proper name. I've haven't seen Memory Alpha use anything but just "Memory Alpha" as the name of the site. The phrase "the Star Trek Wiki" that appears in the page titles is a description, just like "the free encyclopedia" at Wikipedia is just a description. Having it in the html title helps the search engines (which is the strongest advantage I can see of using "Doctor Who Wiki" in the page titles here), but it's still not part of the official name. Sites can use a proper name as their page title, but they don't have to; many don't, and depending on what your proper name is, using it as the page title might even be a bad decision. As for the capitalization in the html title, that's a style choice. Wikipedia is using sentence case. Memory Alpha is mixing sentence case and title case. Mixing is generally bad, but as long as they're consistently using sentence case for the variable article title and title case for the boilerplate part, it can pass. It looks weird to me, but it is a matter of style rather correctness, and so not worth fussing over. | |||
:::::It would make me very happy to have the html titles here say either "(Article title) - TARDIS Index File: A Doctor Who Wiki" or "(Article title) - TARDIS Index File, a Doctor Who wiki". The former uses it as a subtitle, the latter as a description. Both run a little bit long, but I think the SEO value and the clarity for readers is worth the extra length. --[[User:Bedawyn|Bedawyn]] 19:18, December 26, 2009 (UTC) | |||
