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Joel Hedlund (NSC): /* Titles, headings and names */

2011-09-29T06:35:25Z

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2011-07-08T11:36:13Z

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2011-07-08T10:59:20Z

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   Property:Expertise
-However if you are making a page, you may consider adding a redirect from the "wiki-capitalised" name to the proper name, as a convenience for other editors and users: create the "wiki-capitalised" and add only the text <nowiki>#REDIRECT [[PROper capitalisation]]</nowiki> (or whatever the proper name of the page is). Save the page and you are done.
+However if you are making a page, you may consider adding a redirect from the "wiki-capitalised" name to the proper name, as a convenience for other editors and users: create the "wiki-capitalised" page and add only the text <nowiki>#REDIRECT [[SeRC]]</nowiki> (or whatever the proper name of the page is). Save the page and you are done.
 If you accidentally create a page with wrong spelling or capitalization, you can just Move it to give it the correct name. This will also automatically create a redirect so that any existing links to the page do not break.

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 However if you are making a page, you may consider adding a redirect from the "wiki-capitalised" name to the proper name, as a convenience for other editors and users: create the "wiki-capitalised" and add only the text <nowiki>#REDIRECT [[PROper capitalisation]]</nowiki> (or whatever the proper name of the page is). Save the page and you are done.
-If you accidentally create a page with wrong spelling or capitalization, you can just Move it to give it the correct name. This will also automatically create a [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Redirects redirect] so that any existing links to the page do not break.
+If you accidentally create a page with wrong spelling or capitalization, you can just Move it to give it the correct name. This will also automatically create a redirect so that any existing links to the page do not break.
 If for some reason don't want to keep the page at all, you will discover that you cannot completely delete a page. Quote from [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Deleting_a_page Help:Deleting a page]:

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 However if you are making a page, you may consider adding a redirect from the "wiki-capitalised" name to the proper name, as a convenience for other editors and users: create the "wiki-capitalised" and add only the text <nowiki>#REDIRECT [[PROper capitalisation]]</nowiki> (or whatever the proper name of the page is). Save the page and you are done.
-If you accidentally create a page with wrong spelling or capitalization, or for some other reason don't want to keep the page, you will discover that you cannot completely delete a page. Quote from [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Deleting_a_page Help:Deleting a page]:
+If you accidentally create a page with wrong spelling or capitalization, you can just Move it to give it the correct name. This will also automatically create a [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Redirects redirect] so that any existing links to the page do not break.
 <blockquote>
 '''Normal users cannot permanently delete a Wiki page'''. This is a deliberate design feature, and is an important part of why wikis work. Every kind of editing operation can be reverted by any other user, and that includes resurrecting deleted content. It doesn't cause significant wasted space; and with nothing but a 'delete' label, the page is effectively deleted anyway.
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 In this case, you should simply remove the contents from the page and write "DELETE ME" and a short explanation/motivation on the page, so an administrator will know that it is okay to delete the page if he/she happens to find it.
 === Automatic capitalisation of first character ===

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 All titles, headings and names, including category names and property names, should be in all lowercase, except the first character of the first word, which should be a capital letter. Headings, titles and names should never end with a full stop.
-Widely accepted acronyms like SNIC, NSC, SeRC or HMMER are of course exceptions from these capitalisation rules, and should be in the case that everyone knows and expects them to be. However, you may consider adding a redirect from the "wiki-capitalised" name to the proper name, as a convenience for other editors and users: create the "wiki-capitalised" and add only the text <nowiki>#REDIRECT [[SNIC]]</nowiki>, save and you are done.
+Widely accepted acronyms like SNIC, NSC, SeRC or HMMER are of course exceptions from these capitalisation rules, and should be in the case that everyone knows and expects them to be.
 Examples:
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   Category:Research area
   Property:Expertise
 If you accidentally create a page with wrong spelling or capitalization, or for some other reason don't want to keep the page, you will discover that you cannot completely delete a page. Quote from [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Deleting_a_page Help:Deleting a page]:

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 All titles, headings and names, including category names and property names, should be in all lowercase, except the first character of the first word, which should be a capital letter. Headings, titles and names should never end with a full stop.
-Widely accepted acronyms like SNIC, NSC, SeRC or HMMER are of course exceptions from these capitalisation rules, and should be in the case that everyone knows and expects them to be.
+Widely accepted acronyms like SNIC, NSC, SeRC or HMMER are of course exceptions from these capitalisation rules, and should be in the case that everyone knows and expects them to be. However, you may consider adding a redirect from the "wiki-capitalised" name to the proper name, as a convenience for other editors and users: create the "wiki-capitalised" and add only the text <nowiki>#REDIRECT [[SNIC]]</nowiki>, save and you are done.
 Examples:

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 Don't use too generic page titles, such as Introduction, Help, etc. Make your titles as descriptive as possible.
-Don't use commas (,) or semicolons (;) in page names (including Category names)! MediaWiki and our templates use commas and semicolons as separation characters, so things will go wrong if these characters are used in the wrong places.
+Don't use commas (,) or semicolons (;) in page names (including Category and Property names)! MediaWiki and our templates use commas and semicolons as separation characters, so things will go wrong if these characters are used in the wrong places.
 Be very careful to get all names right. Since this is a wiki, misspelling (and Erroneous Capitalisation!) lead to duplication and potentially much backtracking at a later stage when someone has to merge diverged content.

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 In this case, you should simply remove the contents from the page and write "DELETE ME" and a short explanation/motivation on the page, so an administrator will know that it is okay to delete the page if he/she happens to find it.
-If it is simply a case of "incorrect" capitalization (where "correct" is MediaWiki's notion of how it should be, as described above), then the best thing to do is to add a redirect to the "correctly" capitalized page (''i.e.'' capital first letter, only). Redirects are described here [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Redirects Help:Redirects]. Note that a move operation automatically generates a redirect page.
+If it is simply a case of "incorrect" capitalization (where "correct" is as described above), then the best thing to do is to add a redirect to the "correctly" capitalized page. Redirects are described here [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Redirects Help:Redirects]. Note that a move operation automatically generates a redirect page.
 === Automatic capitalisation of first character ===