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#How does [[doublefuck]] look like for a good christian as an article name? ;)
#My userpage wouldn't look half as cool if those language articles I created didn't have that "programming language" suffix. ;)<br>--[[User:ZeroOne|ZeroOne]] 01:10, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Let's have the discussion in one place, either here or there, otherwise it's time-wastingly redundant. But point-by-point, for completeness:
#The overarching rule is "most common unambiguous name". By your reasoning, then other types of articles should be entitled [[Albert Einstein Jewish physicist]], [[London city]], and [[United Kingdom country]]; if you propose that for all articles in WP and get agreement, I'll go along with it here. People decide "professionalism" by content not titling; by that standard, we have too much trivia and joke languages and not enough on the semantics of important languages.
#I don't even look at Recentchanges anymore, I would miss too much stuff. If I want to find programming languages, I look at [[list of programming languages]] or [[:Category:Programming languages]]. For new articles, there's no guarantee that the creator will add "programming language" to the title anyway, so a rule would make no difference.
#Article creators are already expected to create all the appropriate redirs and disambig machinery.
#Once [[fuck]] is in, doesn't really matter if there are more... :-)
#To be honest, your user page would look cooler without all the "programming language" appendages - after about the 20th, it's like "yeah yeah, we get the concept". :-)
[[User:Stan Shebs|Stan]] 16:23, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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