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==Rationale== with link to Signpost report, see also to WP:NCTR
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==Usage==
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* '''Attention: Please do not [[WP:SUBST|Subst:]] this template.'''
==Rationale==
One intended paradigm of the Wikipedia interface is that you should always be able to copy-paste the title header of a page and immediately obtain a suitable bluelink by enclosing it in double brackets. This was not working with proper nouns such as "eBay" and common nouns such as "buried treasure", both requiring to edit the copy-pasted text afterwards in order to obtain <CODE><NOWIKI>[[eBay]]</NOWIKI></CODE> and <CODE><NOWIKI>[[buried treasure]]</NOWIKI></CODE>. A software change was implemented in July 2007[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-07-16/Technology_report] to allow any article whose [[headword]] starts with a lowercase letter to have its title header reflect it. This change prevents any other use or abuse (such as displaying "two" for article "one").
==Technical==
This template wraps the [[Help:Magic words|magic word]] DISPLAYTITLE so that it works automatically in any namespace (main, talk, template, etc.) to decapitalise the first letter of the name of a page it
==See also==
* [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)#Lower case first letter]]
* {{tl|Wrongtitle}} – hatnote for providing a correct title prevented by technical reasons
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