Board Thread:Castlevania Wiki General Discussion/@comment-3236835-20141222151405

Hello everyone!

A few hours ago I believe I went out of my way and started to change many pages' names. I know I shouldn't have done that without consulting with you first, and I want to apologize for doing that, but it kinda was an innocent mistake, let me explain: first I was editing one page, I think it was the Contra Series page and I changed it to Contra (series). That took me to change the Parodius Series page to Parodius (series). Then that somehow brought me to change the Kid Dracula (Character) page to Kid Dracula (character), and before I knew it, I was changing and changing names... you know how this is when that happens. (・_・ヾ

I also was planning to tell about this to Chernabogue so he could organize a discussion between admins, but I got lazy and said: "Naaah... I'll write him later", and then: "Tomorrow... I swear!", and then: "I'll write him as soon as I finish this cup of coffee", and so on... you get the idea.

Most pages are back to their original titles, though. Thing is, I still want to propose some name changes, especially to the Castlevania (Video Game) and Vampire Killer Whip pages. In most wikis I've visited (Wikipedia, some other Wikia wikis, and others like Wikidot and Wikispaces), it's generally used the name of the item and then the name of the category (if it belongs to one) in parentheses and non-capitalized. For example, if you look for "" in Wikipedia, you'll enter a disambiguation page where all pages referring to that name are listed as follows:
 * The Avengers (TV series)
 * The Avengers (radio series)
 * The Avengers (1998 film)
 * Avengers (comics)
 * The Avengers: United They Stand
 * The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
 * Avengers Assemble (TV series)
 * The Avengers (2012 film)
 * Avengers: Age of Ultron
 * Avengers (video game)
 * The Day Will Dawn
 * The Avengers (1950 film)

As you can see, all of them have their category in parentheses and non-capitalized, except for those which start with a year, the word "TV", the name of the country they belong to (e.g.: Czech, Spanish, Japanese, Norwegian, etc.), or the franchise.

Here are some other examples:
 * Claptrap (disambiguation)
 * Blade of Mercy (disambiguation)
 * Contra (series)
 * Dragon Age (disambiguation)
 * Disambiguation pages in Wookieepedia.
 * Sarafan (disambiguation)
 * Shaperate's Blessing
 * Silent Hill
 * Zelos (dragon)
 * Silent Hill
 * Zelos (dragon)
 * Zelos (dragon)

However, I've also noticed that many other wikis prefer having their categories capitalized. I still propose we adopt having them non-capitalized and that that should be the standard, they somehow look much better, clean and professional.

Here are some proposals I have:

Not bad, eh? Of course, I'm also implying changing the page names of all similar iterations throughout the wiki (which doesn't seem to be that many after all).

I hope you support me on this (I go bananas every time I have to make a link to the Castlevania (Video Game) page... really! I don't know why), and if you prefer capitalized titles, at least take a look at my proposals and give it a second thought.

By the way, this is why we need a "Manual of Style". I remember there was some discussion about it a few months ago but I never knew what happened with that. I think the idea should be re-taken.

Thanks for reading everyone. I really hope you agree, and if you do, I'll be happy to change every single link throughout the wiki.

Regards. ☺ 