Help:Title restrictions

Some article titles cannot be named correctly due to software limitations.

Before the opening paragraph of the article, insert  . This will produce the following text:

''The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is (correct title).''

For a list of articles that are subject to these limitations, see Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Wrongtitle.

Excluded characters
The following characters are not allowed in page titles:


 * 1) + < > [ ] | { }

The following character is allowed but is impossible to link to from a namespace that supports subpages if it is the first character of the title:

/

The MediaWiki software also makes no distinction between underscores and spaces in page titles, so underscores will display as spaces.

P-S-Y
The three letters P-S-Y (without dashes) cannot appear in a page title or wiki page. All instances must be removed before a page can be saved. Our recommendation is to use the code  py  which produces py, which is simply a workaround so that the three letters are not displayed in a row when saving a page. For page titles, š can be used in the place of s. And of course any article title that needs the special character will use the normal  template.

Lowercase first letter
The MediaWiki software is configured to transform the first letter to uppercase, so no page title can start with a lowercase letter.