Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14583096-20131211225831/@comment-15636815-20131213050939

It is done.

Renaming the page automatically created a redirect page with the old name. That's a standard Wiki feature, I believe; it makes sure that people can find pages later, even if they saw a page only once, years ago, with the old name. That's definitely a good thing.

However, it got me thinking: What about all the infoboxes we have on this site? The infobox templates allow for a "name" parameter, and many article pages use it. The templates, of course, are designed to use "PAGENAME" for the title of the infobox as a default value in cases where it does not receive name from the calling template.

By now, I'm sure you can where I'm going with this. If we change the name of a page could use PAGENAME to refer to itself, but doesn't, we'll have to manually change the infobox title. Granted, this should be a rare occurrence. Still, is there any reason to ask page creators and editors for the name of a loco, wagon, or whatever, when the name of the page already carries that information?

If we decide the answer is "no", the easiest thing to do would be simply to edit the infobox templates. Instead of "if, then name, else PAGENAME", simply use PAGENAME and be done. There is no need to edit the thousands of pages that already specify a value for name; the edited templates will ignore it.

So, is there any reason we would ever want the title of a loco or wagon infobox to differ from the name of the page?