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