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 :Bottom line, management team to watch every url as they are created and correct them as needed like the latest one you just saw, which could be reduced to simply "Coffin Plates".<br><br>Specific projects should always be simply WikiProject: or FSWikiProject: to avoid any potential confusion with the Wikipedia. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject].&nbsp; [[User:Dsammy|dsammy]] 16:41, 16 December 2009 (UTC)<br>
-<br>I'm in favor of creating a separate project namespace, and I like Sammy's suggestion of FSWikiProject. [[User:BakerBH|Bakerbh]] 20:53, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
+I'm in favor of creating a separate project namespace, and I like Sammy's suggestion of FSWikiProject. [[User:BakerBH|Bakerbh]] 20:53, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
+I don't think the absence of the string '''FamilySearch''' or '''FS''' in a project title will affect people doing Google searches. They'll still be able to see that a link in the search results leads to the research wiki because of the URL. Therefore, I think we should keep it simple to make titles more intuitive to the non-wiki-initiated. I'm also leaning towards wanting to have projects in the Main namespace for now, and moving them later to a project namespace if necessary. The details of moving them en masse programmatically is at MediaWiki's [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces Manual:Using custom namespaces]. According to that article, if we kept all projects in the main namespace for now and wanted to move them into a custom namespace later, it would be easiest to do it like this: Today we'd name the article <nowiki>'''WikiProject: [project name]'''</nowiki> Note the space between the colon and the first letter of the project. The space would prevent that page from ever being included in a custom namespace. Then years later if we create a custom namespace called '''Wikiproject''', we would then create a script to programmatically remove the space to all these titles as in this example:  <nowiki>'''WikiProject:[project title]'''</nowiki> [[User:RitcheyMT|RitcheyMT]] 22:18, 11 March 2010 (UTC)