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Name Robert
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DanFr: Robert, thanks so much for your contributions to WikiLens. One observation: almost every book and movie thus far has been just it's name (for movies sometimes the year), with no "Movie/" or "Book/" at the beginning of the title. This is simply to make the page title nicer looking. I wonder if you would be willing to follow that convention as well? I will go back and rename your existing added pages (as soon as I shake a bug out of the rename functionality), so this could apply just to new pages. What do you say? (added at 11:17:56 PM on 01/07/06)

grplens: Of course you are right about page names, that if we do not prefix them with their category, they may collide. We talked about this at length awhile back, and it was not obvious which was the right way to go. I will say, a) at this point, most pages are not prefixed, b) Wikipedia does not use prefixes; rather, they have disambiguation pages and suffixes, so the page names remain more or less intuitive to how people would think of them. For these reasons, it seems like no prefix is slightly a winner at this point. If we wanted to prefix, we'd have to a) change all existing pages, b) have more support for prefixing (for example, changing the prefix when you changed the category of a thing, putting the prefix when you create a page, etc. etc.). (added at 08:59:37 AM on 01/11/06)