User talk:MinorProphet/Alem (finial)

The title of this article needs to be fixed. Winter Maiden (talk) 07:57, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I wondered where this had gone, thank you for finding it.
 * This is a draft article, not part of the main Wikipedia. I'd better finish it. Tag added.
 * What do you feel is wrong with the title? I chose it because it indicates more or less exactly what the article is about. The article has to have a different title from Alem, a town in the Netherlands. This disambiguation page also lists a number of other Alems which would conflict with this article's title, just in case you had randomly determined that it should be the same as one of those. So, if (and here I am discounting the possibility that you can't spell, and were hoping to find one of these articles: Elam, Lame, Lemma, Male, Meal, Alem (final), Alem (finale) or similar) you:


 * think that the article is predominately about things which aren't alems;
 * or if you think that alems are not a type of finial;
 * or even (such may well be the case) if you think that the things described in the article are not in fact alems, although you would then be quibbling about the article's content, not its title;
 * or, furthermore, if you think either word in the title is spelled wrongly;
 * or even that the parentheses which gently but firmly enclose the word 'finial' are inappropriate, or not curly or not square enough;
 * or even - I am battering at the bounds of possibility here - that you take issue either with the single space which separates the word 'alem' from the word 'finial' along with its attendant lunulae, or with the title's initial majuscule A - and here I should state both these particular matters are out of my hands, one being an ancient convention to separate words which replaced the dot in Latin after about 200AD: and the other a consequence of the configuration of the database which underpins Wikipedia:
 * - then I would be most interested to hear your carefully considered views on the matter, although I fear they will differ somewhat from my own firmly-held ones. If, on the other hand, you reject all the above possibilities and know a disambiguation word or phrase which describes more succinctly what alems are, or if you feel you can improve the article, fix away.
 * My goodness, now the talk page is longer than the article itself. >MinorProphet (talk) 06:41, 7 March 2012 (UTC)