Wikipedia talk:SUBTITLES

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[edit] RfC: How Should Wikipedia handle subtitles?

My opinion can be found on the page. superluser_tc 2007 December 19, 00:47 (UTC)

• Two cents Subtitles should be bolded and included in the first line of the lead but should generally give way to WP:COMMONNAME in the article title. So I would say that Dr. Strangelove should be preferred over Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and please don't ever change Robinson Crusoe to [[The Life and most Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an uninhabited Island on the coast of America, lying near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself]]. Agne^Cheese/^Wine 03:10, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, of course page naming is going to be different from how the title is used in the article proper. It's stated that way in the MoS (WP:MOSTITLE). If this is added to that page, then it would be redundant to have the disambiguation at the top and in this section.

In fact, Wikipedia already has a really awesome convention for naming articles with subtitles at WP:Naming conventions (books)#Subtitles. Hm. Maybe it is worth mentioning that. superluser_tc 2007 December 19, 06:40 (UTC)