Help:Naming an article

Before creating a new article, please consider the following rules for naming articles:

Things to consider when naming articles

• Use simple nouns, names, or phrases that would work well in a sentence.
• Use singular, not plural, if at all possible. (This wiki's linking can add plurals easily in most cases but not subtract them.)
• Use words in the titles that people are likely to search for and that you can use easily in sentences within other articles.
• Be specific, the title should describe what's in the article.
• Avoid gratuitious punctuation and special characters, but use when needed.

Examples of good article titles

• SQL*Plus: This article describes SQL*Plus and you can also just link to it in any sentence about SQL*Plus. For example:

  "Execute the following command from SQL*Plus ...".

• naming wiki articles: states clearly what it's about and is spelled & phrased so that it can be used in a sentence:

  "Before creating articles here, read more about naming wiki articles."

Examples of bad article titles

• Issues: Not specific. Whose issues? About what?
• SQL*Plus Features: It's all capitalized, so it doesn't fit into a sentence nicely and no one's likely to ever type it that way. Better for this wiki site might be: SQL*Plus features.
• InfoAboutThisWiki: Use spaces. Don't capitalize.

To stimulate your thoughts further

• View the list of all existing article titles. See which ones make sense to you and which seem to make reasonable titles.