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<node id="387989" title="Disallowing single-word titles in SOPW" created="2004-09-02 12:42:38" updated="2005-08-10 21:52:38">
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monkdiscuss</type>
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VSarkiss</author>
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&lt;p&gt;A lot of considerations that I see are for changing titles on SOPW questions that are a single word.  I usually vote "Edit" on those because single-word titles are harder to search for and aren't very descriptive.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking about patching the SOPW edit page to reduce the frequency of these.  The simplest thing would be to change the text next to the "Title:" box to say "Title (more than one word, please):".  The problem is that the people who ignore other instructions will likely ignore that too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The next more draconian thing would be to demand that the title contain at least one white space between non-white space characters (in principle, match &lt;code&gt;(\S+\s+\S+)+&lt;/code&gt;).  The writeup wouldn't be saved until it passed this test.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This would only be for SOPW; it seems to me that other sections like [Obfuscation] and [Perl Poetry] have "good reasons" for one-word titles.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What say you, fellow monks?&lt;/p&gt;</field>
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