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-e-r-l
The four letters P-e-r-l (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  prl  which produces prl, 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.

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.