[Wikipedia-l] Re:colons

[Graham Chapman]

Bad idea - you don't know what namespaces you want to use in 
future.

Graham

> I just realized we don't need to forbid the use of colons in 
> titles;
> unlike the subpage "/", the only time colons are used as a 
> special 
> character are with the limited number of namespaces.

> Thus instead of the ":" being a reserved character anywhere in > a
> title, only "user:", "talk:", "wikipedia:" etc. need to be
> reserved. Any other uses of colons should be fine. This will 
> let us
> have entries for books with standard formatting of the 
> subtitle (e.g.,
> "The Muggles: A Tale of Woe") or other natural uses of the 
> colon.

> -TC

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