Re: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (parens)

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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