Help:Page names

General guidelines on page names.

The advantage of the wiki is that it is not rigid - it allows anybody to create pages on any subject. However, the contents of the wiki are visible to everybody - not just members of the club. This means that we need some basic standards to allow the wiki to be as useful as possible.

One of the main concepts of a wiki is that the pages should be complete in themselves - each page says something about what it is for and does not assume that a visitor arrives at the page via any specific route. This means that somebody finding the page via a search engine can understand what the page is for and the context in which it exists.

Part of this is to adopt a common style of page structure

Part of this is to adopt a reasonable page name convention.

• Avoid page names like "Trip to Wales", but make the page name quite specific - something like "Open boating trip to Llangollen 11 July 2009".

• Page names can be quite long - up to 255 characters - so they need not be single words.

• Page names may includes spaces. These will generate URLs with underscores, but the spaces will be displayed.

• Page names may include dashes or colons to indicate a structure. This may be better: "Open boating trip to Llangollen - 11 July 2009"

Wikipedia has a more full page on the subject of page names