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