vorticity Wrote:If you're suggesting that we reimplement the ptitle system (a short hash), then on behalf of common decency I'm just going to say no. The general idea is that the names of pages are pithy or descriptive, and easy to remember, so you don't have to look them up. The number of tropes are probably somewhere in the low thousands, so it's not like we could just have a drop-down menu you could select with a GUI linker. But "easy to remember" is, of course, debatable.Easy to remember indeed! Using the entire 'proper' title of a trope for the actual URL of that particular page probably won't work, especially when using the Rocky & Bullwinkle system. You'd have a huge URL address well over a hundred characters long that would take a bit of practice to type out perfectly from memory. And besides, who the heck memorizes the URLs for individual trope pages? I certainly don't. If one is important enough, then I'll bookmark it for later reference.
Now, I'm only saying that we should use ptitles for the URLs of tropes themselves. For the URLs of things like works, their associated characters, people, etc., then we can use the proper names because 1) they don't need the Rocky and Bullwinkle system, and 2) their proper names will probably be shorter than the 'colloquial' names of our tropes.
EDIT: Just caught what you exactly meant by Rocky and Bullwinkle system. Close, but not quite good enough. The first part can be as catchy and whimsical as you like... but I feel that the second part, for the sake of somebody not knowing what they're looking at, must describe the trope well enough in a short sentence.