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
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.
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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
Two custom titles are being declined:
- How To Make A Custom Title -> Five Nights At Freddy's: The Movie (Secret 4 Studio) (~Pc 98 Fan please try again from the actual page for which you're trying to adjust the custom wiki word)
- Supermarioglitchy4s Super Mario 64 Bloopers -> SMG 4 (~Stephen Epsilons any such changes needs a page move; as it already exists as a redirect, this will be pointless.)
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
I got a rock for Halloween.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
.
The two tropes have different wikiword.
- Updated Re-release - Updated Re-release
- Compilation Re-release - Compilation Rerelease
So is it "re-release" or "rerelease"?
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
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
~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
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.
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?
Would the pinned post benefit from a link to How to Make a Custom Title?
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup~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
I got a rock for Halloween.

~Master-Geass
Your custom title request has been declined.
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.