Forum:Page name standards

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I’d like to advocate for extending page name standards. We have Name (world) and Name (star) fairly consistent. I think we need Name (subsector), Name (sector), and Name (domain) too. I am sure I will find more. Fortunately we can do most of these using Mediawiki’s move tool which creates a redirect so that nothing is broken.

What say you? —¿philoserf? (talk) 22:43, 15 June 2020 (EDT)

The naming convention covers this topic. Normally we like to follow the Wikipedia naming conventions. This has the "name (x)" style used for disambiguation and not otherwise. The Sector names (using "name Sector") and Subector names (using "name Subsector") are used externally and should not be changed. Tjoneslo (talk) 23:09, 15 June 2020 (EDT)

ACK —¿philoserf? (talk) 23:18, 15 June 2020 (EDT)

BTW. We seem to use title case for page names while Wikipedia use initial capital unless there is a reason to capitalize following words. I will read our policy more thoroughly. —¿philoserf? (talk) 23:32, 15 June 2020 (EDT)

The original policy was to follow the Wikipedia sentence case standard, but was never consistently enforced (e.g. see Sector articles). In 2016/2017 Maksim unilaterally changed the policy to be Title Case, and moved most of the articles to match. I vastly prefer the sentence case but haven't spent the time/brain space to move articles to match. Which do you prefer? And how assertively do you think we be about moving the articles? Tjoneslo (talk) 23:57, 15 June 2020 (EDT)