[Mediawiki-l] Wikipedia:Naming conventions (parens)

[John Blumel]

I noticed on Wikipedia that there are many Wikipedia:Naming_conventions 
articles with parenthetical elements in them -- for example, 
Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(capitalization). Now, it doesn't seem as 
though they are ever used in links where the title is piped to suppress 
the parenthetical text, so I was wondering if there was some other 
reason why they are named this way.

Is this simply a stylistic convention? Is there a technical reason? Was 
it thought that they might be used in piped links? Is there some 
historical reason that has been obscured through changes in the 
software? Some other reason?


John Blumel