Wikipedia:Do not use subpages: Difference between revisions

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* '''The slash has no clear meaning and is therefore disconcerting in an article title:''' The slash creates a completely ambiguous relationship between the subject to the left of the slash and the subject to the right of the slash. Other punctuation has clear meaning. Wiki's slash does not. Therefore, it is better, for clarity, to eliminate the slash and replace it with English.

* Having a "magical" character in the title is unpleasant, creates "parent" pages that shouldn't exist, and therefore prevents some article titles from being what they should: for instance <nowiki>[[8 1/2]], [[GnuGNU/Linux]], etc.</nowiki> (''Who has said this? This doesn't make any sense to me. --LMS'')

* A subpage located by the search script or Google may be incomprehensible to the unsavvy user because they don't realize that the context is provided by the parent page, whose existence they are not aware of.