Help:Titles

This page is a guide for proper naming of article tiles expected on Zelda Dungeon Wiki. Most wikis on the internet followed Wikipedia's lead on page titles and treat titles as if they were part of a sentence structure, excluding ending punctuation, rather than as an actual title. This was done because previously piped linking, a wiki term for having the link to a page have different text from the page's title displayed instead, was not implemented on the MediaWiki software. After this ability was programmed into the software, Wikipedia never abandoned its practice of treating titles as part of sentence structures. And the majority of other wikis followed their lead simply because of Wikipedia's role model status.

We at Zelda Dungeon Wiki instead treat titles as actual titles and expect them to be properly capitalized. The following is a guide to what words in a title should be capitalized and what words should not be capitalized. This applies both to page titles and section titles.

Words That Should Be Capitalized

• The first and last words in the title.
• All nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives.
• Any conjunction of five letters or more.
  • Examples:
    • after
    • although
    • before
    • provided
    • since
    • until
• Any preposition of five letters or more.
  • Examples:
    • above
    • below
    • following
    • inside
    • outside
    • under

Words That Should Not Be Capitalized

• Articles (the, a, an), unless the article is the first or last word of the title.
• Prepositions of four letters or fewer, unless the preposition is the first or last word of the title.
  • Examples:
    • as
    • at
    • but
    • by
    • in
    • into
    • of
    • to
• Conjunctions of four letters or fewer, unless the conjunction is the first or last word of the title.
  • Examples:
    • and
    • but
    • or
    • nor
    • for
    • yet
    • so
• The particle "to" used with an infinitive, unless the "to" is the first or last word of the title.

Title Rules

• All titles should be made singular except in rare cases when there is a plural subject that is only ever referred to in the plural sense. This only applies to the main namespace.
• Sometimes it is necessary to differentiate one page from another with the same title. This is done by adding a subtitle within parentheses after the main title. This subtitle is to be treated with the same capitalization rules as the main title and it has its own separate first and last word (i.e. one word subtitles would always be capitalized in addition to the main title's own first and last words).
• Page titles should not include any of a character's individual titles (honorary titles, royalty titles, self-appointed titles, reputation titles, etc.) and should only include the character's actual name and nothing else. If a character is commonly referred to with a title, that can be noted in the opening paragraph but not the page title. See Zelda as an example.

Special Rules for Individual Namespaces

The rules already listed apply to the main namespace. The same rules apply to other namespaces, unless otherwise noted, but certain namespaces on the wiki have their own additional rules for page titles.

Interview

• Particularly notable interviews that have their own name are simply named as such.
• Ordinary interviews have the name of the interviewing party, followed by the date of the interview, written in standard American date formatting (name of month, day, year).

Template

While not explicitly required, it is encouraged that templates not have any spacing in them (i.e. NumberColor instead of Number Color). for consistency and ease of use. As well as for saving space in other templates that need to use them.