Thread:Sasstoreth/@comment-6335668-20130801103238/@comment-30507626-20130801155112

Hi Arathor! I apologize if I was irritating you; I have just been going through and fixing all the names I can find. I appreciate the request and will respect it. However I would ask you to consider the following:

1. Naming conventions of the wiki call for no articles to be prefaced with "The", since the sorting algorithms do not recognize the definite article (or indefinite articles like "a" "an" etc.) as conventionally ignorable and will lump every article beginning with "The" under T instead of the proper letter, making articles considerably harder to find by browsing. If you want people to see your article, it's better off under B.

2. Your item is a book. Books are properly listed in libraries, bibliographies etc. without in/definite articles at the beginning. In a card catalog, The Book of the Wise Prophets would be listed as Book of the Wise Prophets, The. As in #1, this is to help with finding items quickly. It 90% of books were lumped under A and T it would be damn hard to find anything in a library.

To borrow a real world example: a bible can be any book that provides a detailed guide to something; TV shows have 'bibles' to keep their various writers on the same page regarding plots and characters. However there is a particular collection of texts sacred to Jews and Christians which is always called The Bible; like your fictional holy text it is always referred to with the definite article and capitalization. Yet the article in Wikipedia is titled Bible, because it needs to be collected under B rather than T.

I understand the desire to make The Book of the Wise Prophets stand out, but I really think there's compelling reasons to follow the standards of wiki article naming in this case. Please note that when an article is renamed a redirect is created, so anyone who does search for or link to "The Biblos" with definite article intact will still find your article. As I said, I will respect your request and not rename it again, but I would strongly encourage you to consider renaming it yourself.