We Will Use Wiki Words in the Future: Difference between revisions

* ''ComStar''. ''MechWarrior''. ''[[Drop Ship]]''. ''BattleMech''. ''[[BattleTech]]''.

** The runepriest existed in prior editions, and numerous other games such as Warhammer.

* ''[[Paranoia]]'' has a number of these, such as IntSec ([[Secret Police|Internal Security]]) and MemoMax (the process that transfers a dead citizen's memories to his next-of-clone). ''Paranoia'' has to have these—it draws on ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' among other works.

* ''[[Mega Man Legends]]'' and ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'' have been using the spelling "MegaMan" instead. This is an interesting compromise with the eternal misspelling "Mega Man". More to the point, the BattleChips of the latter had [[Wiki Word]] names, too: HiCannon, AirShot, NoBeam and PoisFace, for example. That last one is an abbreviation for Poison Face, by the way. Apparently we will still have filename length limits in the future also.

{{quote|'''King Fan Club #5 "G"''': Man, you always worhar! "Worhar" is short for "work hard." And since you're a worhar king, you need to chill! I'm rootin' for ya! [[World of Warcraft|Loktar!]] [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Bewbies!]] Lates!}}

* Earlier games in general usually had engines that limited the number of text within certain spaces. For example in an early SNES RPG would have something like 'Fire Sword' would have it spelled as 'FireSwrd' or 'F.Swrd'. Although this is something of an inverse since this is now pretty much obsolete in games (as memory and text size increased) except maybe a retro-styled or homebrew game.

** That one almost makes sense: it was founded by the merger of apparently important company Price Waterhouse with apparently important company Coopers & Lybrand, and the "waterhouse" is in lowercase presumably to indicate that it wasn't a separate firm at the time of the merger.

** PwC is the world's largest professional services firm; their main businesses are financial statement auditing, tax, and consulting. They're best know to the public as the people who ensure that Academy Award votes are counted accurately. The accounting industry is packed with examples of WikiWords or [[Long List]] titles, as accounting firms often grow more through acquisition than by simply picking up customers. Consider the naming history of a slightly smaller audit/tax/advisory firm, [[wikipedia:KMG Group#Early years and mergers|KPMG]]. KPMG spun off its consulting business in the wake of Enron's collapse, and the new firm chose the name [[wikipedia:BearingPoint|BearingPoint]]. Unlike many examples shown here, this was not a branding decision done to appease the owners of an assimilated company; this was a conscious decision.

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* The publishing company [http://www.randomhouse.com/ Random House] occasionally uses the form RandomHouse. Likewise, [http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Pages/Home.aspx HarperCollins] is one word.<ref>Formed from the merger of William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd. and Harper & Row; Harper & Row was itself formed from the merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company.</ref> Could be worse; they used to be HarperCollins''Publishers'' (yes, the italics are part of it).

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