Talk:Manual of Style

About article names being in singular rather than plural: I submit that the name of races and ethnic groups should be in plural (Darrians rather than Darrian). Vilani, Zhodani, etc. are also in the plural, it's just that in these cases the plural is the same as the singular. I would also think that there are other cases where the plural would be more correct than the singular, but I can't come up with an example off the cuff. Rancke 16:32, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

The reason for the singular titles vs plurals (and the older ordering style for the personal name articles) is for ease of wikifying (adding wiki formatting) to articles, primarlly links. You can create a link with different text by using a '|' separator (e.g. [[Darrians|Darrian]] will display the text "Darrian" as a link and when clicked will go to "Darrians" article). You can also turn a singular name article into a plural link by adding "s" outside the link. (e.g. [[Darrian]]s will have a full link of "Darrians" and connect to the "Darrian" article). Since it is easier to create plural links from singular article titles the prefered style is to request singular article titles. A similar argument can be used for the order of names for the titles of articles about people.

The "article titles are singular" style is used by Wikipedia and every other wiki on Wikia. Unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason for making the article title a plural, I would like to keep the guideline that all article titles are to be singular. Tjoneslo 16:51, 9 May 2007 (UTC)