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
"the change of names in custom titles is actually allowed"
If you see these, please report them because that's not true.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupYour request to retitle "ShortRunners" to "Other Short Runners" has been declined.
This would need a page move request, not just a custom title - title changes are generally only for formatting (caps and punctuation etc.).
More generally, Short-Runners is the main trope page — some media types do get their own subpages, but that doesn't make ShortRunners "Other".
I submitted it but then realized it wasn't something I wanted and didn't know how to cancel it.
Should VideoGame.The BOSSA Jacksepticeye Fan Game be at VideoGame.The Boss A Jacksepticeye Fan Game (capitalised as "BOSS" via wikiword?) EDIT: Also VideoGame.The BOSS Is Nothing.
It's not like Boss is an acronym.
Edited by BlackFaithStar on Mar 15th 2024 at 6:13:37 PM
When you're alone I'm reaching out to let you know that you're far from strangers, like the saviorThe following request will be declined:
- The Indrema Revolution -> The Indrema Revolution - An Alternate History of Indrema, Pop Culture, and Gaming
If you want to add extra words to the title, that requires a page move request.
Please do not use custom wiki word to replace words with other words. This will require a page move.
The following will be declined:
- Fairy Tail Galuna Island Arc -> Fairy Tail Sub-Zero Emperor Lyon Arc
- Fairy Tail Lullaby Arc -> Fairy Tail Eisenwald Arc
- Fairy Tail Fighting Festival Arc -> Fairy Tail The Battle of Fairy Tail Arc
- Fairy Tail Fairy Tail Revival Arc -> Fairy Tail Avatar Arc
Since I now see where to look, I've resubmitted Recap.My Hero Academia custom titles to match their wikiwords.
Edited by Amonimus on Mar 18th 2024 at 7:31:08 PM
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
This thread is specifically for discussing custom titles. If you want to do major changes on recap pages, you can start a Short-Term and invite people who know more about the work there.
I've noticed Deus ex Machina is now spelled as "Deus ex machina" instead of "Deus ex Machina".
Edited by Amonimus on Mar 19th 2024 at 5:56:12 PM
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupDisambiguating Manhunt -> Manhunt (2024) needs a move request, not just a custom title, so this has been declined.
Custom titles are for styling, punctuation and abbreviation.
The request to rename MetalSlugCodeJ -> Metal Slug: Awakening isn't in scope for this.
That would need a page move, not just a custom title, so the request is declined.
The repeat request to rename MetalSlugCodeJ -> Metal Slug: Awakening has been declined, for the same reasons given in the previous post). Resubmitting it won't change this — you need to consider a page history move
or other options
.
(And either type of move needs some level of consensus from other tropers - unilateral page moves are generally a very bad idea)
The request to rename FairyTailStrongestTeam -> Fairy Tail's Strongest Team is declined for the same reasons. Even if you're just adding an extra s, that's not what custom titles are intended for.

~Nic Master Trope — Declined your request to custom title Characters.My Hero Academia Artificial Humans to "My Hero Academia - Nomu" because using custom titles to change pages' names is not allowed.
I got a rock for Halloween.