MediaWiki talk:Pagetitle

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Change hyphen to a colon[edit]

Could we please change the hyphen (which is there in lieu of a real dash) to a colon? – Kaihsu (talk) 13:35, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, because it might not display correctly depending on the font selected for the window manager. — Dispenser 14:58, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An en-dash (–) might not display correctly, but a colon (:) should be all right, no? – Kaihsu (talk) 19:19, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, I misread it. Although a colon would mismatch with MediaWiki:Tagline. — Dispenser 17:33, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal about this message[edit]

See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 135#Proposal: Amend page title element to remove "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:39, 11 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The proposed change has now been made — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:11, 12 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Creation request[edit]

The hyphen in the page title should be an en dash instead. Requested page contents:

$1 – Wikipedia

Nixinova T / C 07:37, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

En-dash discussion[edit]

For the record: proposal to replace hyphen with an en-dash in MediaWiki:Pagetitle had been closed with result "no consensus". —⁠andrybak (talk) 14:17, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]