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The Trailing punctuation in trope custom titles thread, as well as many, many discussions over the past ten and a half years, have made it obvious that we need a centralized discussion thread for page titles. I intend for this thread to be a place to both discuss titles and request they be changed.

(If you're looking to capitalize an existing wikiword, there's a different thread for that. Custom titles are tied to capitalization, so if you need to both recapitalize and custom-title a wikiword, do the capitalization first to avoid a bug in that regard.)


Custom titles must not be used for the following scenarios:

  • Replacing words with symbols or numbers, unless those are part of the official title of the work. A classic case is changing "and" to "&". Only do this if the original title of the work uses that symbol.
    • One specific exception is when a trope title is expressed as a mathematical formula; for example: 2 + Torture = 5. However, Beauty Equals Goodness is not a valid case for substitution.
  • Adding trailing punctuation to the end of a trope name. For work titles, it's acceptable if and only if the punctuation is part of the official title; for example: Airplane!. For tropes, they need to make sense in a sentence and we should not force the writer to use a pothole to remove punctuation. Common offenders include exclamation points and ellipses.
    • Quoted punctuation is allowed. For example: Big "NO!" encloses its punctuation in quotation marks, so it doesn't disrupt a sentence.
  • Adding words that are not present in the WikiWord title.
  • Transliterating titles into other alphabets. This is primarily an English language wiki. We may note a translated work's original name in its original alphabet (e.g. Arabic or Japanese) within the work page text, but the title should be in the Latin alphabet.

(Mod edit 16 Jan 2025 to add guidance)

Edited by Mrph1 on Jan 16th 2025 at 4:38:33 PM

Mrph1 MOD he/him from Mercia (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
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#876: Feb 18th 2024 at 5:30:12 AM

~Master-Geass

Your custom title request has been declined.

  • IGotMyWishAndReincarnatedAsTheVillainess -> I Got My Wish and Reincarnated as the Villainess (Last Boss)!

If you need to add "Last Boss" into the title, that's a page move request, as we wouldn't use a custom WikiWord for that.

Mrph1 he/him from Mercia (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
he/him
#877: Feb 18th 2024 at 5:31:58 AM

[duplicate post]

Edited by Mrph1 on Feb 18th 2024 at 1:32:29 PM

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#878: Feb 18th 2024 at 5:32:58 AM

~TheSpongeBoy

Your custom title request has been declined.

  • CaptainFlamingoS1E15FaceMoreProblemsTheEvenGreaterEscape -> Captain Flamingo S 1 E 15 Milo and the Gang Face More Problems The Even Greater Escape

If you need to add "Milo and the Gang" into the title, that's a page move request, as we wouldn't use a custom WikiWord for that.

Someone1981 Since: Aug, 2022
#879: Feb 19th 2024 at 1:17:14 PM

[up][up][up]Apparently this page can't be moved (see replies on next page of that forum).

Edited by Someone1981 on Feb 19th 2024 at 11:17:50 AM

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#880: Feb 20th 2024 at 11:27:47 AM

I Got My Wish et al is expanding from 40 characters to 48, excluding the namespace; a manual move may be the best option here.

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Berrenta MOD Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#881: Feb 20th 2024 at 3:48:30 PM

Two custom titles are being declined:

Someone1981 Since: Aug, 2022
#882: Feb 20th 2024 at 11:12:37 PM

[up][up]The existing page is blocking the creation of the correct capitalization. And cutting the existing page would remove my access to it's contents.

Edited by Someone1981 on Feb 20th 2024 at 9:12:52 PM

bwburke94 I am mad scientist! It's so cool! from 1.048596% (Y2: Electric Boogaloo) Relationship Status: She does the things you do, but she is an IBM
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#883: Feb 20th 2024 at 11:32:29 PM

The page was somehow duplicated; I resolved it by redirecting the short title to the long one.

2025: the year it all ends?
GastonRabbit MOD C'est la vie. (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
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#884: Feb 24th 2024 at 7:57:31 PM

~Stephen Epsilons

Rejected the custom title requests for VideoGame.Xenoblade Chronicles 1 and VideoGame.God Eater 1 because using custom titles to change a page's disambiguation text (in this case, replacing the numeral 1 with the year of release) is not allowed.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 24th 2024 at 9:57:54 AM

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bwburke94 I am mad scientist! It's so cool! from 1.048596% (Y2: Electric Boogaloo) Relationship Status: She does the things you do, but she is an IBM
I am mad scientist! It's so cool!
#885: Feb 25th 2024 at 9:40:23 AM

On the topic of Xenoblade Chronicles 1, the purpose of not hiding the 1 has almost certainly passed, so it might be time to change its custom title to hide it.

2025: the year it all ends?
Berrenta MOD Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#886: Feb 27th 2024 at 8:27:03 PM

~Dogleader

Your custom wiki word request Aaahh Real Monsters -> Aahhh!!! Real Monsters (Video Game) will be declined. If you want to add a disambiguation, that needs a page move request first.


~The Super Blackwing 1

I am declining your requests for various Sonic Sat AM recap episodes, as you're changing the episode number. You'll need to make a page move request first.

Berrenta MOD Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#887: Feb 28th 2024 at 9:48:30 PM

~KD

I'll go ahead and approve of your request to revert Review to the standard form due to conflicting formatting styles. I'm sure the work pages will be disambiguated?

SpaceKABOOM Since: Jul, 2016
#888: Feb 29th 2024 at 1:08:59 AM

The two tropes have different wikiword.

So is it "re-release" or "rerelease"?

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#889: Feb 29th 2024 at 5:07:56 PM

The capitalization for the former is UpdatedReRelease, which might indicate "Re-Release"...

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#890: Mar 1st 2024 at 9:43:10 AM

~LeGurdah

I declined some requests that add extra words to titles that lack it. Those require a move request.

Edited by Berrenta on Mar 1st 2024 at 11:45:31 AM

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#891: Mar 1st 2024 at 11:16:46 AM

Fair enough.

Yes this is me, that one bizarre N.B.
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#892: Mar 2nd 2024 at 6:44:04 PM

~Fox J

You should submit your custom wiki word request from the page that you meant for the custom wiki word, not "Title Goes Here". Your request is declined.

Edited by Berrenta on Mar 2nd 2024 at 8:44:28 AM

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#893: Mar 2nd 2024 at 6:47:16 PM

Okay, what do you mean by that exactly?

Berrenta MOD Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#894: Mar 3rd 2024 at 5:57:28 AM

[up] ~Fox J : Wikiword requests only associate themselves with the page (and associated pages that share that wiki word) from where the request is sent. Look up How to Make a Custom Title for more info.


~anthonytropey99

I'm declining your request as you're adding words not in the original wikiword. Since what you're titling is a trope, that requires some more steps, but what you're adding is completely unnecessary.

Edited by Berrenta on Mar 3rd 2024 at 8:25:14 AM

anthonytropey99 I Like TOONS from Houston, Texas (Green Sprout) Relationship Status: My elf kissing days are over
I Like TOONS
#895: Mar 3rd 2024 at 2:55:20 PM

So does this mean Wiki Word is not for idioms like other TV Tropes pages? Could you explainsad

D'OH
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
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#896: Mar 3rd 2024 at 8:12:33 PM

[up] Not sure what page is in question, but WikiWord is the article's unformatted name. The form is to apply formatting to page titles. It needs to match the URL. If there are letters not present in the title, the whole page needs to be moved.

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Mrph1 he/him from Mercia (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
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#897: Mar 11th 2024 at 1:55:47 AM

~Greasy Chicken

These two requests have been declined:

  • ZaraAndErika -> Greasy Chicken
  • CreatingNewPages -> Greasy Chicken

Were you actually trying to set custom names for those pages, or did something go wrong?

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#898: Mar 11th 2024 at 2:02:41 AM

Would the pinned post benefit from a link to How to Make a Custom Title?

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Mrph1 he/him from Mercia (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
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#899: Mar 11th 2024 at 3:29:53 AM

That sounds like a good plan.

GastonRabbit MOD C'est la vie. (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
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#900: Mar 13th 2024 at 12:10:03 PM

~NoonboryKedabory — Declined your request to custom title WesternAnimation.The Little Mermaid Golden 1992 to "The Little Mermaid (Golden Films)" because using custom titles to change the words in the title like that is not allowed.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Mar 13th 2024 at 2:10:28 PM

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