[WikiEN-l] Slogan policy (was: DTK article)

Wed Mar 19 18:32:44 UTC 2003

Poor, Edmund W wrote:

>We need a policy on "titles of articles about slogans".
>
>Most of us would probably agree that the slogan itself should not be the title of the article:
>
>* [[AIDS Kills Fags Dead]] <= not a good title
>
>How about some convention like "Slogan: XYZ" or "The slogan: 'XYZ'", as in:
>* [[Slogan: Death to Moonies]]
>* [[The slogan: Moonies stink]]
>
I support inserting the word "slogan" in such situations; whether we 
like them or not we can't ignore the plain fact that such slogans do 
exist.  Putting "slogan at the end of the title such as in the suggested 
[[Death to Kikes slogan]] would not be as effective.  The point which 
the title must make is that it is a slogan, and it is being quoted. 
 Adding "The" at the beginning serves no purpose, and only makes the 
title uselessly longer.  Some slogans can already be too long.  I'm not 
sure whether a colon is the proper punctuation, but that is a relatively 
minor point.

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