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*#REDIRECT [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)]] - a list of illegal characters

On [[Wikipedia]], a page cannot start with a lowercase letter and cannot include certain characters, including @ and *. Some titles are designed to naturally begin with lowercase characters or use these forbidden characters.

For example, the name of the page where the eBay article resides is "<b>E</b>Bay". This is incorrect, but the Wikipedia software offers no way to fix this.

Some of these pages begin with the letter ''i'' or ''e'', with the ''e'' often standing for "electronic" and the ''i'' often standing for "Internet." Others are [[Unix]] or [[DOS]] commands, which are usually written in all lower case. The list also includes several programs and names designed to be written in all lower case.

==Illegal characters==

*[[NSYNC|*NSYNC]]

*[[C Plus Plus|C++]]

*[[College of Saint Benedict / Saint John's University|College of Saint Benedict | Saint John's University]] (the pipe)

*[[Deal dollar store|Deal$]]

*[[Mase|Ma$e]]

*[[M A S H|M*A*S*H]]

*[[NATO.0_55_3d|NATO.0+55+3d]]

*[[QBert|Q*Bert]]

*[[SETI at home|SETI@home]]

*[[The '5' Royales|The "5" Royales]]

*[[Too Short|Too $hort]]

==Titles that should start with a lowercase letter==

===Titles other than computer software commands and programs===

*[[a-ha]]

*[[archy and mehitabel]]

*[[blink-182]]

*[[e (mathematical constant)]]

*[[eBay]]

*[[eDonkey2000]]

*[[eGovernment]]

*[[eMac]]

*[[eMachines]]

*[[eMule]]

*[[easyJet]]

*[[eXistenZ]]

*[[iBook]]

*[[iCab]]

*[[iCal]]

*[[iCalendar]]

*[[iChat]]

*[[id Software]]

*[[iDisk]]

*[[iDVD]]

*[[iLife]]

*[[iMac]]

*[[iMesh]]

*[[iMode]]

*[[iMovie]]

*[[i'noGo tied]]

*[[iPAQ]]

*[[iPhoto]]

*[[iPod]]

*[[iRate Radio]]

*[[ircII]]

*[[irssi]]

*[[iSight]]

*[[iSync]]

*[[iTunes]]

*[[iTunes Music Store]]

*[[iWarp]]

*[[k.d. lang]]

*[[nCUBE]]

*[[nForce]]

*[[pH]]

*[[t.A.T.u.]]

===Computer software commands and programs===

*[[bzip2]]

*[[cat (Unix)]]

*[[cd (DOS / Unix Command)]]

*[[cfdisk]]

*[[chmod]]

*[[dir (DOS Command)]]

*[[dIRC]]

*[[fdisk]]

*[[grep]]

*[[ls]]

*[[mIRC]]

*[[mIRC script]]

*[[mkdir]]

*[[more]]

*[[pwd]]

*[[rm (Unix)]]

*[[tcsh]]

*[[uniq]]

*[[vdiff]]

*[[vi]]

*[[wget]]

==See also==

*[[Capitalization]]

*[[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)]] - a list of illegal characters

*[[Wikipedia:Articles_with_slashes_in_title]]

*[[Special:Allpages/a|Pages starting with special symbols]]