Category talk:Battery electric vehicle components

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[edit] Obscure category name?

This is a good category, but it uses a relatively-unknown TLA as its title; this strikes me as making the category more-obscure than it need be. Why not just "Battery electric vehicle components"? Atlant 12:00, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

That's a good point, I guess that "BEV" is commonly used by those people in the field, and if you've got far enough to be looking into BEV components than you probably know what it stands for. I guess I just like short url's? But if this is a big time wiki faux pas, then it could surely be changed. I'd also like to rename all of the battery electric vehicle links to BEV, would that be bad as well? --D0li0 12:29, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

I don't hold any stromg opinion on this and I certainly can't speak for WIkipedia (really, no one person can), but you probably do want to consider that one of the purposes of WIkipedia is to make information accessible to everyone (including a lot of people for whom English is a second language). Because of that, most articles (and the like) aren't named by TLAs unless that TLA is pretty-well known. For example (from my discipline), most computer articles aren't named by TLAs; PDP is, but that was the name by which most folks knew that line of computers. So while I'd suggest a more-expanded title, there's certainly no one who's likely to come along and force that on the article against the will of the consensus. --Atlant 15:15, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

You're probably right, I'll move it to it's full name. --D0li0 11:49, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

On second thought it's just to darn long that way, takes up way to much space in the category bar at the bottom of the page. The name|alt name thing doesn't appear to work for categories. Sorry :( --D0li0 12:14, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

This is a perfectly horrible name for a category and baffled me when I first saw it in the relay article. --Wtshymanski 17:53, 28 July 2006 (UTC)