Wikipedia talk:Articles with slashes in title

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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[edit]

Everything in this section except for /. actually can be linked to by specifying an explicit empty namespace: [[:/]] [[://Gana language]] 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: [[//dev/zero]] 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 //Gana language, so that is an alternative to [[://Gana language]]. 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:

  • contains /./
  • contains /../
  • ends with /.
  • ends with /..

But the following are not problematical since you aren't allowed to create articles with such names:

  • .
  • ..
  • starts with ./
  • starts with ../

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)

Obsolete[edit]

In recent MediaWiki versions, all eight cases are disallowed:

  • .
  • ..
  • starts with ./
  • starts with ../
  • contains /./
  • contains /../
  • ends with /.
  • ends with /..

This means that the Slashdot redirect is obsolete, so I deleted its section. Bo Lindbergh (talk) 09:07, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In use?[edit]

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

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