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Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)
bugzilla:65#c17 -> User:Gangleri/tests/bugzilla:1691#from bugzilla:65#c17
- Brion:
  - NEVER use  or  for s-caron. Numeric character references always refer to Unicode code points, and U+009A is a reserved control character, *not* s-caron. It might appear to work sometimes due to a fluke and crappy workarounds for compatibility with a Windows bug, but should definitely not be relied upon. Use the real Unicode number, š. The same goes for the other characters in the Windows CP1252 extended range (see ISO 8859-1#Windows-1252 ).
- For the moment the only named character references that will work in links are the ISO 8859-1 ones (s-caron does not appear in ISO 8859-1). Stick with the numbers for now.
Template:Wrongtitle talk

Template:Invalidtitle is a "stealth" template. It does not insert visible characters in a page but can be detected with Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Invalidtitle.
Many templates with the visible text "You can help ..." relate to issues which can by solved by everybody.
"Invalid titles" are detected over and over again. It maight be that these titles have been created with earlier versions of the MediaWiki software. Often there is no time to fix such a title (or a serie of titles as detected now at Category:Cities and towns in the Czech Republic), to search for titles related to this subject (as Special:Whatlinkshere/Czech Republic, Special:Whatlinkshere/Czech language, Special:Whatlinkshere/Czech literature, Special:Whatlinkshere/Czechs, Special:Whatlinkshere/List of Czechs ...) to inform the "creator", to ask help from a bot to search the namespace(s) etc.

changing all (internal) links to such pages
changing all interlanguage links to such pages
changing all interproject (WikiMedia and others) links to such pages (commons:, wikisource:, q: etc. wikitravel))