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Restrictions on page titles are listed at Wikipedia:Page name § Technical restrictions and limitations. The most commonly encountered problems are that: titles cannot begin with a lowercase letter; titles cannot contain certain restricted characters.
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)#Lowercase first letter says: "The MediaWiki software is configured so that a page title (as stored in the database) cannot begin with a lower-case letter". It's a guideline page for the English Wikipedia so it means MediaWiki is configured like that here at Wikipedia. It's the default ...
Wikipedia:Article titles describes the policy for the correct naming of an article, but there are also technical restrictions to the naming of articles on Wikipedia, most of which are listed at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions). The section Changing the displayed title explains how some technical restrictions may be overcome.
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions), software limitations on the names of Wikipedia pages (articles, categories, templates, etc.) Wikipedia:In versus of, proper use of in and of (or some alternatives, as from and on) Wikipedia:Ambiguous subjects; Wikipedia:Reliable sources § Headlines, on the unreliability of news headlines ...
This is a Wikipedia maintenance template that produces an article hatnote to help explain to readers that restrictions on titles containing colons, periods, and some other characters (noted at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)) affect the page name of the page they are reading.
In general, Wikipedia articles have singular titles; for example, the article on everyone's favorite canine is located at dog, not dogs. Naming conventions (technical restrictions) Technical restrictions with article titles, category names, file names, and other page names. Naming conventions (use English)
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A common practice is to entitle list articles as List of ___ (for example List of Xs).If (as is often the case), the list has multiple columns and so is in layout table form, the name or title List of Xs is still preferable to Table of Xs or Comparison of Xs (though the latter may be appropriate for articles that are actual tables of data comparing numerous features, e.g. Comparison of Linux ...