Talk:Slug (Web publishing)

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 * Section added. —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 04:47, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Does anybody know why it's called a slug? I figure that maybe it "looks" like a slug because you typically remove all spaces from a title or sentence and replace them with dashes, but that's a wild guess. 77.250.97.191 (talk) 00:13, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The term comes from the traditional publishing term for the internal name of an article – see slug (publishing). As to why that is called a slug, I don’t know, but I’d speculate that it’s because it’s a “chunk” (like a “slug of metal”) – see slug, and compare Slug (typesetting).
 * —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 04:47, 27 October 2012 (UTC)