You've come at an awkward time when our conventions and our software are a bit out of sync. I'll summarize briefly here, and I'm still working on updating the policy pages to better reflect our consensus about such things.

If a title is "Plato's Republic" or "Philosopher's Stone", go ahead and use the apostrophe. If that screws up the search function, then the search function needs to be fixed.

Simple singular nouns like "Possum" are ideal titles. There are still some legacy pages with plural titles that are lists of things, and those may get changed to "List of..." or something at some point, or we might just leave them alone because people are used to them and there are many links.

There's no longer any such thing as a subpage. Slashes should only be used for titles that actually have a slash in them, like "OS/2". Pages that really are dependent on context should include that context in the title with a phrase like "Abstraction in object-oriented programming" rather than "Object-oriented programming/Abstraction".

Articles about independent specific topics should be named in whatever way makes them clear; references to related topics can appear inside, but there's no reason to hard-code relationships in titles. Pages "Possum breeding" and "Keeping possums as pets" will probably both have links to "Possum", but there's no reason to enforce any other relationship among them.

"Lime" should be a disambiguation page, with links to "Lime (fruit)" and "Lime (mineral)". See the pages http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/wikipedia:Naming_conventions and http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/wikipedia:Disambiguation.

You Wrote:

I've tried to work it out but I'm still a bit confused, so I've got a couple of questions that maybe you can help me with.

The search engine on the wikipedia rejects punctuation, so does that mean that for best search results we should leave it out of entry titles? eg. There was no entry for 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' until I made one, but there was an entry already there for 'Harry

Potter

and the Philosophers Stone' without the [correct] apostrophe. Which

one

should be the main article and which one should be the redirect?

If I want to make a sub-page for a topic, say 'Possums', what's the protocol for naming it? I see a lot of entries have used backslashes, but I read that the slashes don't mean anything anymore. I'm

confused!

Just say I wanted to make subpages on possum dietary requirements,

how

to keep possums as pets, and how possums breed. [not that I know anything about possums, but it's an example that came to mind.]

And, lastly, if I wanted to break my user: page up into subpages with projects I'd like to do on one page and projects I've already

started on

another, what should I call it? I'm getting confused. I looked at the FAQ and help pages but I didn't really understand their

explanation... I

got lost at about the point where I was told to use brackets to make categories more logical.

And about those brackets, which subject header would be more

correct -

lime, fruit lime/fruit or lime (fruit). I've seen entry titles using

all

three formats.

Thanks in advance!

Karen

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