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== Section/article titles, singular or plural? ==

This topic is in reaction to [[User:Erwin Madelung|Erwin Madelung]] edit summary for this [https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/index.php?title=Industrials&diff=188675&oldid=188674 edit]. I do not agree that article and section headers should be plural. The [[UniWiki:Manual of Style#Article titles, headings, and sections|Manual of Style]] and ~~this~~ Wikipedia ~~article~~, [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Article titles#Article title format|Article titles]] indicate that titles should be singular, unless ... There is a somewhat "technical" reason for this. Singular title make the link end trick possible. The link end trick makes it possible to make a link to an article or section, displaing a plural, without needing the use of a piped link it functions as follows:

This topic is in reaction to [[User:Erwin Madelung|Erwin Madelung]] edit summary for this [https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/index.php?title=Industrials&diff=188675&oldid=188674 edit]. I do not agree that article and section headers should be plural. The [[UniWiki:Manual of Style#Article titles, headings, and sections|Manual of Style]] and these Wikipedia articles, [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Article titles#Article title format|Article titles]] and [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals)|Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals)]] indicate that titles should be singular, unless ... There is a somewhat "technical" reason for this. Singular title make the link end trick possible. The link end trick makes it possible to make a link to an article or section, displaing a plural, without needing the use of a piped link it functions as follows:

Lets take the Vector article to demonstrate. For a link with the visible text singular we put the article name in double square brackets, <nowiki>[[Vexor]]</nowiki> which looks like this [[Vexor]]. For a plural displaying link we can simply add an s directly after the closing brackets, <nowiki>[[Vexor]]s</nowiki> giving this [[Vexor]]s, a plural display that still goes to the singular article. For more information about links and the link end trick (Word-ending links), see [[Wikipedia:Help:Links#Internal links]] I agree that it was inconsistent at the page but I am always a bit hesitant to change existing titles afraid of breaking incoming links. --[[User:Evon R'al|Evon R'al]] ([[User talk:Evon R'al|talk]]) 11:30, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

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 == Section/article titles, singular or plural? ==
-This topic is in reaction to [[User:Erwin Madelung|Erwin Madelung]] edit summary for this <span class="plainlinks">[https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/index.php?title=Industrials&diff=188675&oldid=188674 edit]</span>.<br>I do not agree that article and section headers should be plural. The [[UniWiki:Manual of Style#Article titles, headings, and sections|Manual of Style]] and this Wikipedia article, [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Article titles#Article title format|Article titles]] indicate that titles should be singular, unless ...<br>There is a somewhat "technical" reason for this. Singular title make the link end trick possible. The link end trick makes it possible to make a link to an article or section, displaing a plural, without needing the use of a piped link it functions as follows:<br><br>
+This topic is in reaction to [[User:Erwin Madelung|Erwin Madelung]] edit summary for this <span class="plainlinks">[https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/index.php?title=Industrials&diff=188675&oldid=188674 edit]</span>.<br>I do not agree that article and section headers should be plural. The [[UniWiki:Manual of Style#Article titles, headings, and sections|Manual of Style]] and these Wikipedia articles, [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Article titles#Article title format|Article titles]] and [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals)|Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals)]] indicate that titles should be singular, unless ...<br>There is a somewhat "technical" reason for this. Singular title make the link end trick possible. The link end trick makes it possible to make a link to an article or section, displaing a plural, without needing the use of a piped link it functions as follows:<br><br>
 Lets take the Vector article to demonstrate. For a link with the visible text singular we put the article name in double square brackets, <nowiki>[[Vexor]]</nowiki> which looks like this [[Vexor]]. For a plural displaying link we can simply add an s directly after the closing brackets, <nowiki>[[Vexor]]s</nowiki> giving this [[Vexor]]s, a plural display that still goes to the singular article.<br><br>For more information about links and the link end trick (Word-ending links), see [[Wikipedia:Help:Links#Internal links]]<br><br>I agree that it was inconsistent at the page but I am always a bit hesitant to change existing titles afraid of breaking incoming links. --[[User:Evon R&#39;al|Evon R&#39;al]] ([[User talk:Evon R&#39;al|talk]]) 11:30, 2 July 2022 (UTC)