Help:Page names
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General guidelines on page names.
- Avoid page names like "Trip to Wales". Instead, make the page name quite specific - something like "Open boating trip to Llangollen on 11 July 2009".
- Page names can be quite long - up to 255 characters - so they need not be abreviated.
- Page names may includes spaces. These will generate URLs with underscores, but the spaces will be displayed.
- Page names may include dashes to indicate a structure. This may be better: "Open boating trip to Llangollen - 11 July 2009"
- Page names connot include any of the following characters: # < > [ ] | { }
- It is best to avoid colons in page names. Colons are used to indicate wiki namespaces.
- It is best to avoid % + and ? in page names. They are allowed, but do cause problems in specific cases.
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions Wikipedia's policy on how to name pages
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Article_titles Section in Wikipedia's Manual of Style
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_name Technical information about page names
