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Hmm, what about custom title requests where a letter is swapped against a lookalike?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
For cases like Hunter × Hunter, M*A*S*H, Arli$$, non-letter characters can be wildcarded to accept any or none letters from the wikiword.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
^ I don't understand that solution. Can you elaborate?
^
- OP: Check that all letters in the custom title match the wikiword
- Question: What about special characters and letter lookalikes?
- Reply: Special characters can stand in for any letter then. If a lookalike is a valid letter, it could go to the wikiword instead.
^ Wouldn't that solution require the custom title to contain the same number of characters as the written one? If so, it would not have worked for the two examples given.
^ No it wouldn't, wildcard means "none or one" and spaces can be disregarded.
- "Hunter ? Hunter" matches "Hunterxhunter".
- "M?A?S?H" matches "Mash"
- "Arli??" matches "Arliss".
If there are pages that wouldn't work like this, then it'd be a problem.
Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Things like 2000 AD (TwoThousandAD) seem likely to cause problems for validation rules, though.
Edited by Mrph1
How to Make a Custom Title states that requesting a change for Custom Display should only be done to alter capitalization or punctuation. If a Custom Display has letters not present in the wikiword, it's invalid.
Yet, people use it to effectively rename pages anyway. And quite often, these slip through moderators and someone has to submit a title again to make it proper.
Since it requires simply checking if all letters in the title request match the letters in the wikiword, why can't the request form do that automatically and error if there's a discrepancy?
The main exception is altering numbers or hiding a Retronym number, so I'm a bit unsure what can be done with those, other than adding a pop-up: "Warning: The requested title does not match the WikiWord. Please ensure this discrepancy follows How to Make a Custom Title or ask in this thread
" and another button if those are detected to double-confirm.
This should reduce the load on moderators who from what I hear have to check hundreds of title requests and tend to make mistakes.
Also as far as I'm aware there's no "reset title" button for mods, meaning they or someone else have to fill in the request form again to clear the invalid title, and even if the new title matches the default one it's still treated as customized.