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Hi there,
the rules for naming work pages / UR Ls are as follows:
- 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.
- 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).
^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.
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).
Keet cleanupPersonally, 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

Europe '51. One word, an apostrophe, and two numbers.
How to make a work page for this work? Should it be {{ Europe 51 }} and then a custom title to get the apostrophe in there? Or should it be Europe Fifty One and a custom title? Catch-22 spells out the numbers in the URL but Apollo 13 and Super 8 do not.