[wp-docs] Redundancy in article titles

[Ehi Akwara]

when can we see a diminishing return on effectiveness? hard to know.

I would rather use our collective resources into making wordpress an even 
better tool than it already is, than using Monday morning's freshly squeezed 
creative juice for the "most effective titles ever" task.

I am being tongue-in-cheek. I am a frustrated writer...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carthik Sharma" <carthik at gmail.com>
To: "WordPress Documentation" <wp-docs at lists.automattic.com>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [wp-docs] Redundancy in article titles


> Hi all,
>
> On 4/30/07, Carthik Sharma <carthik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> I found the thread:
> http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/docs/2004-December/001076.html
>
> :) History repeats itself
>
> Carthik.
>> Yes, this is a no-brainer as far as I am concerned- title should not
>> have "WordPress" in them.
>>
>> Carthik.
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