Sorry, Rlee, but you are correct: article names are case-sensitive. Thus "twin cities" and "Twin Cities" are different subjects. Many computer programmers are comfortable with case-sensitivity.
One exception to this rule, however, is the initial letter of a link. Thus "hobbit" (hobbit) and "Hobbit" (Hobbit) both refer to the same article.
Hope this isn't too confusing or inconvenient for you. Ed Poor
Re: your answer on the Talk:Main Page: I think you should certainly create articles for dynamic linking and static linking. However, if their content is likely to be the same as Library linking (or whatever), then just make them a redirect article. In this way, people that create a link to dynamic linking get served, while you still have only one place where everything is.
Also: Don't include (Computer Science) in the title of Library linking, unless there are other kinds of Library linking in existance (or can expected to be).
Regards, Jheijmans
Re: Library Linking (Computer Science): My reasoning for the (Computer Science) is that there are more then one type of library which can be linked (for example, those with books). That said, the article had already been created. Is there a way to rename it? Perhaps copying its contents into the new file and erasing all the original text from the current version? Will that delete the current topic as it is currently titled? I'm having a rather hard time finding my way around this site in many cases. I'd imagine that it would be a nightmare for the average user to navigate. Another issue though.
- Hi, a few notes:
- the article on library linking is currently actually an "orphan", only this talk page links to it. Best practice for creating a new article is to find another article from which it can be linked.
- I cannot think up what library linking with real books should mean
- To move a page, you can use the "redirect" feature. This causes somebody that asks for a page that has been moved to be automatically redirected to its new location
- For more help (you've touched a number of difficult topics, so I hope you're not scared away), please use Wikipedia:Help or Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers.
- My suggestions for the creators/maintainers of wikipedia:
- Try to make the site "reader-friendly". The current design is great! I've always been a hands on poweruser so the current interface suits my personal style great. But to a reader, having links to "edit this page" and "history" on each page would be confusing I would think. Especially considering that the word "history" has several meanings and can be misleading in the context of some articles. Perhaps if "contributor" tools were hidden or visually "removed" from the article text, this would be more clear.
- This would change the whole spirit of Wikipedia--much of the point is that all users know they can improve and expand the Wikipedia.
- Article names should not be case sensitive. If they are, the system should at least force all names to lower case. The rule that the article should be made lower-case by the contributors except the first letter is silly. Ussually article titles have the first letter of all major words in upper case. Minor words such as "the", "on", "in", "at" and "is" are ussually kept lower-case except at the start of the title. Proper nouns such as "Robert Frost" should have all thier words capitalized. Our naming scheme seams to require that "Frost" be lowercase. Not only would that look funny, but it would be improper and could be interpreted as disrespectfull. Especially if its not done consistently to all proper nouns. In short: contributors should be able to use capitalization following the more popular guidelines outlined above and the system should not worry about the capitalization of any letter in article titles. By the way, Main Page violates the naming suggestions.
- You've misunderstood the conventions. Proper nouns, such as Robert Frost, do get capitalized titles. There are also lots of redirects between the all-upper-case you're advocating and the mixed-case we've settled on.
- Some of the "Special Pages" such as the "Recently Modified" page have options for the number of items to show per page. I can't find a way to go to the next page of items however. It would be nice to have links to jump directly into the lists at important points. For cronological lists these points could be dates for example where-as in alphabetical lists the link can point to each letter of the alphabet. This would make things much easier on the contributors. Also, shouldn't these pages have filters for showing just articles that I've contributed to or just articles that I'm watching?
Of course this is just my two cents. I could be wrong!
-Robert
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Obviously a flaw in the concept, RL.