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LB7979 Since: Mar, 2016
2018-11-02 03:45:10

Hi there,

the rules for naming work pages / UR Ls are as follows:

  1. ONLY alphanumerical characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9) are EVER allowed in the URL. Non-alphanumerical characters (such as in your example, the apostrophe in "Europe'51") can ONLY be added via the "Wiki Word" / "Custom Title" process.
  2. While numericals (0-9) are allowed in UR Ls, they CANNOT BE the FIRST character in the URL. Hence for example, the TvTropes page for the movie "21 Jump Street", is located at the URL "Film/TwentyOneJumpStreet" (notice the numbers at the beginning of the name being spelled out in letters even though the official film name starts with numericals... This is because the URL after the Film/ part isn's allowed to start with a numerical character). But e.g. Film/Deadpool2 has a numerical "2" but that is perfectly fine because in that case the numerical is not the FIRST character.

So TL,DR: A page for a work named "Europe'51" should be made at Europe 51 (and you can request for a custom title adding the apostrophe and then all will look perfect).

jamespolk Since: Aug, 2012
2018-11-02 04:03:05

^Most of that I already knew. Mainly I was looking for works with similar titles, and wondering why Catch-22 actually is spelled out as Catch Twenty Two in the URL while Apollo 13 is not. That made me wonder if possibly the punctuation mark in Catch-22 was the reason why.

HeraldAlberich (Before Recorded History)
2018-11-02 07:20:35

I think probably the creator of Catch-22 was just unaware of the rules for numbers and decided to play it safe.

Edit: A test: Film/Apollo13 renders Apollo 13

Yep, you don't need the curly brackets. Europe51 Wikiwords just fine.

Edited by HeraldAlberich
rjd1922 Since: May, 2013
2018-11-15 11:24:52

I also noticed that it's impossible to get the Wiki Word for X/1999 to work properly. It shows as X/1999 when using curly brackets and doesn't link if you don't use them (Manga/X1999).

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RallyBot2 (Elder Troper)
2018-11-16 04:33:53

Manga/{{X/1999}} doesn't work either, this being the normal method of getting around curly bracket weirdness.

Edited by RallyBot2
StFan Since: Jan, 2001
2018-11-16 10:05:16

You obtain the custom title by typing "Manga/{{X 1999}}".

The space is necessary for the Wiki Word to match what it expects.

Demonstration: X/1999

Edited by StFan
WaterBlap Since: May, 2014
2018-11-16 14:52:05

I generally think spelling out the numbers, unless it's disambig numbers (e.g. a year), is best. But I also think a FCFS method for these sort of "not a big deal" issues is even better. It's kind of a grey and gray thing when either is appropriate.

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StFan Since: Jan, 2001
2018-11-17 07:54:27

Personally, as a non-native English speaker, I tend to favor the numbers being spelled out somewhere even if covered by a custom title, because otherwise my reflex is to read them in French.

It can also be useful to disambig how to say the exact title when the numbers can have several interpretation. For example, is Reno 911! spoken as "Reno Nine-Hundred-Eleven", "Reno Nine-One-One" or "Reno Nine-Eleven"?

But as you said, it is really, really not that a big deal.

Edited by StFan
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