On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 00:45 -0500, John Blumel wrote:
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?
The page naming conventions were in place before I added the
pipe-trick, so they don't really have anything to do with each
other. Parentheticals in titles have uses other than
disambiguation. In this case, it serves to emphasize the close
relationship among the pages about various naming conventions,
purely a stylistic consideration.
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