Rosetta Code:Village Pump/Task titles: Difference between revisions

For a while now, this has been something of an elephant-in-the-room for me: tasks aren't named consistently. Some names are in title case ([[Missing Permutation]], [[Walk Directory Tree]], [[List Comprehension]]) and some are in Wikipedia-style sentence case ([[Increment numerical string]], [[Atomic updates]], [[Count programming examples]]). Some are imperative clauses ([[Loop over multiple arrays simultaneously‎]], [[Execute a System Command‎]]), some are gerund phrases ([[Repeating a string]], [[Testing a Function‎]]), and some use agent nouns ([[Simple Random Distribution Checker]], [[24 game Player]]). Some use articles ([[Print a Multiplication Table]]) and some omit them ([[Simulate mouse click]]). I don't mean to say that every task title should have exactly the same grammatical form; I just think that this much diversity is ugly and confusing and makes it harder to remember a given task's exact title.

 

===If you disagree…===

My real goal, at least for the moment, is just to impose some conventions on Rosetta's titles as a whole, not to worry about individual titles. So if you disagree with some of my (necessarily) arbitrary selections and find my justification for them unconvincing, you can change [[Rosetta Code:Village Pump/Task titles/List|the list]] yourself. When I run UnderBot, I'll use whatever's there. —[[User:Underscore|Underscore]] ([[User talk:Underscore|Talk]]) 22:55, 1 February 2010 (UTC)