[wp-docs] Redundancy in article titles

[Ehi Akwara]

Well there is nothing wrong with reinforcing the wordpress brand in users 
minds. what if someone saves that particular page as a bookmark? they can 
refer to it easily without trying to remember what the coding standards 
apply to. we know as creatives, our brains sometimes blink out...

Ehi Akwara
Editor
Lucid Magazine
www.lucidmag.com
(hacked beyond recognition wordpress theme)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carthik Sharma" <carthik at gmail.com>
To: "WordPress Documentation" <wp-docs at lists.automattic.com>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [wp-docs] Redundancy in article titles


> On 4/30/07, Jeremy Visser <jeremy.visser at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I noticed a lot of articles in the Codex have their titles starting
>> with "WordPress". For example, "WordPress Coding Standards".
>>
>> I know this is really nitpicky, but does anybody else think this is
>> slightly redundant? I mean, codex.wordpress.org already has WordPress
>> in the URL, and not to mention the large WordPress logo at the top of
>> the Codex (unless you use the monobook theme like me because the edit
>> links don't show up for you). Isn't that enough WordPress?
>>
>> I suggest we simply drop "WordPress" from the titles, e.g. in the case
>> of "WordPress Coding Standards", rename to "Coding Standards".
> Strange, I remember putting it in the Codex New Page Creation
> Guidelines page under the "title" section that the word "WordPress"
> should not be used in titles as it is redundant - there has been a
> discussion about this before, back when we were building the Codex. I
> can't find it now - must have been edited out or something.
>
> Yes, this is a no-brainer as far as I am concerned- title should not
> have "WordPress" in them.
>
> Carthik.
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