Hi,
I'm quite severely disturbed by the apparent habit of participants in some WikiProjects to completely disregard Wikipedia's Manual of Style and various guidelines, claiming that their pet WikiProject has their own pet style guidelines, as if Wikipedia's global guidelines have no say anyway.
Is this really how things are going now? Articles on topic X follow a certain style while articles on topic Y follow a completely different style?
Case in question: So far it seemed to me that Wikipedia uses brackets after article titles *only* when they are required for disambiguating between otherwise identical article titles. Hence, there is the title [[Cher (département)]] but not [[Haute-Corse (département)]].
However, the Star Trek WikiProject has now randomly decided that this rule needs to go, and all articles on Star Trek episodes must have an extra parenthesis showing what series it's an episode of, even though most of the titles are unique as they are. Hence, [[Hide and Q]] is a redirect to [[Hide and Q (TNG episode)]], and all links to such pages unnessarily look like this: [[Hide and Q (TNG episode)|Hide and Q]].
Add to this the fact that outside of Star Trek fandom, readers aren't likely to know what TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT mean anyway.
What is everybody's opinion on this?
Timwi