[Wikipedia-l] Summary of pseudo-subpage discussion

Uri Yanover uriyan_subscribe at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 8 05:18:40 UTC 2002


> IF we could agree on #2, all we need to agree on otherwise is what kind of
> shortcut should be used. It should be
> * Simple
> * Fast to type
> * Unusual enough to not be used in a real page title
> 
> So, how about
> * [[Elves()]] on [[Middle Earth]] becomes [[Elves (Middle Earth)]]
> 
> I guess no real article would ever end on "()", except you try to write
> articles about functions with no parameter list ;)

I agree with this syntax, as well as with the general () notation; but 
for various reasons I think it's best to leave the articles _exactly_
the way they were typed, and do the conversion in runtime.

            Uri Yanover




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