User:Topbanana/Reports/This page contains a link that might be mis-punctuated

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The list below shows pages in the main english article namespace which contains links to articles that do not exist, but differ from one that does exist only by punctuation. It was generated on 17th June 2004 from the 13th May 2004 database dump.

Preamble

Article names are (apart from their first letter) case sensitive on Wikipedia. The list below shows links which may be broken because they or the article they are trying to link to are improperly capitalised - see Naming conventions. Similarly, diacritics can cause problems if they're not all matched up properly. Please read the article containing the bad link and correct it if it should indeed point elsewhere.

Suggested improvements

For now this list only checks capitalisation and diacritics, lots more could be done.
Need to ignore the case of the first letter when comparing red links/article titles
Need to suppress the leading capital in the suggested article name if it's the only one.

- ALERT: unless I have not looked hard enough, the Naming Convention does not provide good enough advice on the format of the titles of cultural works. Which of these three is correct:
  - James and the Magic Torch?
  - James And The Magic Torch?
  - James and the magic torch?
- and I suspect others might be hard to call (or not - YMMV)
  - Bailey Bridge?
  - Bailey bridge?
- I tend to think we should provide better capitalisation advice onthis page, drawn from Naming Conventions and we should improve on the advice given in Naming Conventions to include worked examples of the Magic Torch variety. Is my h'ppth. --Tagishsimon

- I absolutely agree - better advice is needed. Sadly, I'm a better database-jockey than linguist or editor. Would a survey of capitalisation styles be useful? Perhaps if the majority of proper names use one particular style, the decision over which to standardise on would be easier. - TB 09:25, Jun 18, 2004 (UTC)

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