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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.
Failing to abide by these restrictions, in the estimation of any administrator, will result in restoring the indefinite block without further warning or discussion. These restrictions may be appealed at any time, either directly to me on my talk page, or at the administrators' noticeboard. – bradv 20:01, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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 is built on the principle that anyone can edit, and therefore aims to have as many pages open for public editing as possible so that anyone can add material and correct issues. This policy states in detail the protection types and procedures for page protection and unprotection, and when each protection should and should not be applied.
The purpose of this page is to help users of Wikipedia solve problems they may encounter when browsing or editing. Note: If you're trying to get help for a specific technical problem that isn't answered by the FAQs, try asking at Wikipedia:Troubleshooting or at the Village pump .
Wikipedia gets own server, running English Wikipedia and after a bit meta, with rewritten PHP software. Runs both the database and the web server on one machine. One of Bomis's servers continues to host some of the other languages on UseModWiki, but most of the active ones are gradually moved over to the other server during this period.
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)
For example, Wikipedia:Reliable sources says newspaper articles are generally considered to be reliable sources, and Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) recommends against newspaper articles for certain technical purposes. Editors must use their judgement to decide which advice is most appropriate and relevant to the situation at ...