Talk:Unsupported titles/:-)

"From: WT:RFC"

I tried to put up a page :-), but I can't get the colon at the front. Anyone know how to do that?--Richardb 10:32, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

I also put up a template Template::-), but that has problems about dropping the colon too !

{{Template::-)}} seems to work, if inconveniently. The first colon in {{:-)}} is a magic word telling it to pull -) from the main namespace.

In pagenames the colon is also a magic word (allowing, e.g. to link Category:Wiktionary instead of putting the page in the category, or Image:File.jpg without displaying the image inline). For some reason two colons [[::-)]] makes it display :-) but only links to -), while three colons displays ::-), makes a link to :-), and ends up redirecting to -) in any case. —Muke Tever 14:56, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

I recapitated the article to " :-)" (i.e. a non-breaking space followed by ":-)"), so the page title and heading look right and any search engines that deal with punctuation (i.e. not Google) should index the entry as ":-)" instead of "-)". Readers can still access it through the normal search string ":-)" and through [[::-)]] via the redirect at -). Punctuation marks are still a bit chaotic, so I'll add an RFC for them below. Rod (A. Smith) 16:32, 18 May 2006 (UTC)