Standardised page titles

• Based on my experience with DEFAULTSORT and the discussion with Clemens, I suggest we standardise the page titles of the entries for individual categories in the long run. So if you are reworking a description anyhow, please consider adopting the page title too along the following lines:
  • The Page title should consist of the most commonly used title of the collection without a preceding article; do not add alternative titles or translations in the page title
  • In the case of collection titles containing numbers (3L, 4L, 12P etc), the Latin form of the title should be used and numbers should be in Roman numbers. For the advandced users, please make sure in such cases to include DEFAULTSORT at the very end of the entry.
  • Anonymous collections commonly referred by the shelf mark of a manuscript (typically the only known copy), the title should follow this pattern: "Collectio canonum in Paris, BnF, lat. 1234". These collections may need DEFAULTSORT too, we will see.
• For a list of all collections, see this Google Spreadsheet. You can copy&paste the standardised page title from column E, the DEFAULTSORT from column F, and suggested categories from column V. Be careful with the latter in particular, as all information here is based on the 2005 Clavis manual and may contain some errors; also, when processing empty cells, the formular produces some nonsensical category tags which you should simply delete.
• To change a page title, use the "move" function. You will be prompted to leave a redirect behind; this is highly recommended unless you are sure that no other page in this wiki contains a link to the old page. If in doubt, leave a redirect.

Christof Rolker (talk) 16:50, 21 August 2022 (CEST)

This is now mostly done. The remaining cases of non-standard titles often are articles which need some thinking for other reasons too; in any case they are in a special category, namely Category:Pages with non-standard title. Christof Rolker (talk) 15:56, 17 April 2023 (CEST)--