Forum:CT Archive/Naming policy and titles

This one's a two-parter.

Page title
Firstly, there's an issue with the Eras template that needs addressing.

So, the eras template's ability to hide "/Canon" from a page's title was recently removed, with the cited reason being that it complicates copy-pasting the article name. However, I strongly disagree with the removal, and thus am putting it to a vote. I believe the eras template should be able to hide "/Canon" in a page's title, as it's harmless - copy-pasting the name won't link to a redlink or a pagename that is not allowed for technical reasons, like using # in a title, and it makes our articles look far cleaner. The hiding function won't be used on a large number of articles; only TCW and the movies, and those same articles will already feature the canon/legends tabs just below the title pointing people to whichever continuity they want. It looks ridiculous to include "/Canon" when the names are italicized, and more to the point, it doesn't match the name of the article's subject. The article Palpatine/Canon doesn't cover someone named "Palpatine/Canon", it's just the canon version of Palpatine. Unlike parenthetical, which are separated from the actual title by a space and a parentheses, the "/Canon" is just crammed right next to the name. This will also apply to Legends when we make the switch to Canon as default; we don't want potentially hundreds of articles saying "/Legends" or "/Canon".

Support the hide function

 * 1) Cade  StupidRepublicEmblem-Traced-TORkit.svg  Calrayn  01:07, May 28, 2014 (UTC)

Naming policy addition
So, with the growing number of canon articles, there have been instances that canon articles are overwriting Legends redirects. It's best that we codify this into policy. I'm proposing that we add a new subheading under Specific rules:
 * In the instance a canon article requires the use of an article title currently occupied by a redirect to a Legends article or a Legends disambiguation page, the canon article should be created at that title, overwriting the redirect or disambiguation page. The canon article and the Legends version of that article should then use the "legends" and "canon" parameters in the Eras template to correctly link the two article tabs. For example, Ackbar should not redirect to Gial Ackbar but should instead be the article title for the canon version of Ackbar.

Support

 * 1) Cade  StupidRepublicEmblem-Traced-TORkit.svg  Calrayn  01:07, May 28, 2014 (UTC)