Wikipedia talk:Articles with slashes in title

I just removed "IMF/World Bank annual meetings" from the "Can't be renamed" section because it could be renamed: to Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, after their official title. - dcljr 20:30, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Can't be linked to
Everything in this section except for /. actually can be linked to by specifying an explicit empty namespace:  etc. The /dev/null entry in the next section uses this and seems to work perfectly. Have I missed something? Bo Lindbergh 00:26, 2004 Nov 8 (UTC)
 * No, so I have edited the article to reflect this...it will probably need cleaning up. --Phil | Talk 09:49, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * Looks like I did miss something after all: the various Unix device articles link to each other by doubling the leading slash:  etc. Is this documented somewhere? Bo Lindbergh 14:25, 2004 Nov 9 (UTC)
 * Someone else (I forget who) has pointed out that using &_#_4_7_; (without the underscores) can be used to produce &, so that is an alternative to .  Edit this to see better. --Henrygb 01:18, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Note that using  to produce the dot fares no better: there's obviously an extra level of decoding which can't be gotten around yet. --Phil | Talk 13:23, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)

The problem with /. is the period rather than the slash (it's interpreted by web browsers). I'd better list all the cases: But the following are not problematical since you aren't allowed to create articles with such names: Note that the four possible cases all include slashes, so this seems to be the right page for them. Bo Lindbergh 13:47, 2004 Nov 9 (UTC)
 * contains /./
 * contains /../
 * ends with /.
 * ends with /..
 * starts with ./
 * starts with ../
 * starts with ./
 * starts with ../

Obsolete
In recent MediaWiki versions, all eight cases are disallowed: This means that the Slashdot redirect is obsolete, so I deleted its section. Bo Lindbergh (talk) 09:07, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
 * starts with ./
 * starts with ../
 * contains /./
 * contains /../
 * ends with /.
 * ends with /..
 * ends with /.
 * ends with /..

In use?
Is this page being updated? Is it useful for anything?--Kotniski (talk) 13:00, 22 July 2009 (UTC)