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==Browser issue==
My browser is not showing this correctly. It looks as though the new title is behind the Halopedia logo, leaving the technical title in view. --[[User:Dragonclaws|Dragonclaws]] 04:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
My browser is not showing this correctly. It looks as though the new title is behind the Halopedia logo, leaving the technical title in view. --[[User:Dragonclaws|Dragonclaws]] 04:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)


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Yeah, it looks fine now. --[[User:Dragonclaws|Dragonclaws]]<sup>([[User talk:Dragonclaws|talk]])</sup> 07:46, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, it looks fine now. --[[User:Dragonclaws|Dragonclaws]]<sup>([[User talk:Dragonclaws|talk]])</sup> 07:46, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
:Not was I had in mind, but my revision I think worked. Cheers, [[user:RelentlessRecusant|My Name is Helen]] [[user talk:RelentlessRecusant|<sup>(Talk)</sup>]] [[Special:Contributions/RelentlessRecusant|<sup>(Contribs)</sup>]] [[user:CaptainAdamGraves|<sup>(Helen)</sup>]] File:CortanaRR.jpg|15px]] 07:49, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
:Not was I had in mind, but my revision I think worked. Cheers, [[user:RelentlessRecusant|My Name is Helen]] [[user talk:RelentlessRecusant|<sup>(Talk)</sup>]] [[Special:Contributions/RelentlessRecusant|<sup>(Contribs)</sup>]] [[user:CaptainAdamGraves|<sup>(Helen)</sup>]] [[Image:CortanaRR.jpg|15px]] 07:49, 19 February 2007 (UTC)


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This type of standard is also in place over at Wikipedia: for example, the titles of [[Wikipedia:Joker (comics)|Joker (comics)]] or [[Wikipedia:Flood (Halo)|Flood (Halo)]] aren't rendered as "The Joker" or "The Flood" even though this would be possible with the title template. I defer to Wikipedia's conventions since while a wiki such as ours obviously differs when it comes to content, inclusion policies and the like, their formatting is generally a reliable precedent. --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 08:40, 13 December 2012 (EST)
This type of standard is also in place over at Wikipedia: for example, the titles of [[Wikipedia:Joker (comics)|Joker (comics)]] or [[Wikipedia:Flood (Halo)|Flood (Halo)]] aren't rendered as "The Joker" or "The Flood" even though this would be possible with the title template. I defer to Wikipedia's conventions since while a wiki such as ours obviously differs when it comes to content, inclusion policies and the like, their formatting is generally a reliable precedent. --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 08:40, 13 December 2012 (EST)
:Truth of the title vs. accessibility is this scenario. I prefer the former, but if the latter is a problem, we need to know how often the title gets confused because of the title template. I do see t happen, but not as often as one would think, and is rather quick and easy to fix. Because of that, I'd stick with the actual title. Also, Wikipedia is notorious for having rather messy pages about fictional media topics, [http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/The_Joker and I defer to the Batman wiki]. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 12:03, 13 December 2012 (EST)
::I've seen the confusion happening often enough to consider it an issue. Moreover, like I said, the article title itself matters less than a lot of people might think, and tinkering with it does more harm than good. Again, the actual name of the subject is going nowhere from the introductory paragraph, which people are supposed to be reading anyways. As for my Wikipedia examples, those two were just ones that I happened to think of on the spot - I'm sure there are plenty more examples in non-fictional topics that follow the same standard. Also, despite Wikipedia's occasionally imperfect handling of fictional media, I wouldn't defer that much to other fictional universe wikis; they tend to have wildly varying standards and formatting; to see an example, one needs to look no further than this wiki to see just how indecisive we've been how much has changed over the past few years. --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 01:41, 18 December 2012 (EST)
Then I think we should address the original decision to remove "the" from the title of article like "Didact". Because canon sources like Halo Waypoint have made it clear that "the" is part of his name, even if it's not capitalized. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 01:53, 18 December 2012 (EST)
:To what extent that holds true is debatable. The "the" is left out on a number of occasions, most obviously when addressing him (''"War is your realm, Didact"'') or when he's identified in subtitles (although in general, subtitles aren't a very reliable precedent for formatting). The point of the policy is that the definite article should only be included in the title if it's an absolutely indispensable part of the name, like in [[The Storm]]. With the Didact, the Librarian, and so on, it's there just because of grammatical convention, just like one would say "the Battle of Earth" or "the UNSC" and so on. And I don't see us adding the title template in those. --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 02:24, 18 December 2012 (EST)
[[Halopedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#Definite_articles_in_titles|Here it is]]. Also, I don't see why we can't render the title to accommodate both, i.e. "''Forward Unto Dawn'' (poem)".— <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span>  02:16, 18 December 2012 (EST)

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