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Clarification on site title

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Clarification on site title Pat David 20 Aug 21:33
  Clarification on site title Marco Ciampa 20 Aug 22:17
   Clarification on site title Patrick B. Shanahan 21 Aug 00:21
    Clarification on site title Pat David 21 Aug 00:29
Pat David
2015-08-20 21:33:54 UTC (over 9 years ago)

Clarification on site title

drc mentioned on irc the other day that the title should read just "GNU Image Manipulation Program".

Our current site has this same text in the header, but the TITLE attribute for the page lists it as:

"GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program"

Which one is semantically correct? Failing a correctness test with semantics, which is the preferred title? With/without "The"?

Marco Ciampa
2015-08-20 22:17:24 UTC (over 9 years ago)

Clarification on site title

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:33:54PM +0000, Pat David wrote:

drc mentioned on irc the other day that the title should read just "GNU Image Manipulation Program".

Our current site has this same text in the header, but the TITLE attribute for the page lists it as:

"GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program"

Which one is semantically correct? Failing a correctness test with semantics, which is the preferred title? With/without "The"?

my 2 euro cent:

They always told me to not use the article, as it is incorrect for acronyms.

For instance you do not say: the U.S.A. or the I.B.M.

Marco Ciampa

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Patrick B. Shanahan
2015-08-21 00:21:01 UTC (over 9 years ago)

Clarification on site title

* Marco Ciampa [08-20-15 20:18]:

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:33:54PM +0000, Pat David wrote:

drc mentioned on irc the other day that the title should read just "GNU Image Manipulation Program".

Our current site has this same text in the header, but the TITLE attribute for the page lists it as:

"GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program"

Which one is semantically correct? Failing a correctness test with semantics, which is the preferred title? With/without "The"?

my 2 euro cent:

They always told me to not use the article, as it is incorrect for acronyms.

For instance you do not say: the U.S.A. or the I.B.M.

re: his question, he is not, "the GIMP", but "The GNU..."

And I cannot say using "The" is incorrect as I believe it is correct both ways, with or without.

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Pat David
2015-08-21 00:29:50 UTC (over 9 years ago)

Clarification on site title

Sorry, I should have clarified better. Patrick is right, should it be: "The GNU Image Manipulation Program" or
"GNU Image Manipulation Program"
?
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:21 PM Patrick B. Shanahan wrote:

* Marco Ciampa [08-20-15 20:18]:

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:33:54PM +0000, Pat David wrote:

drc mentioned on irc the other day that the title should read just "GNU Image Manipulation Program".

Our current site has this same text in the header, but the TITLE

attribute

for the page lists it as:

"GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program"

Which one is semantically correct? Failing a correctness test with semantics, which is the preferred title? With/without "The"?

my 2 euro cent:

They always told me to not use the article, as it is incorrect for acronyms.

For instance you do not say: the U.S.A. or the I.B.M.

re: his question, he is not, "the GIMP", but "The GNU..."

And I cannot say using "The" is incorrect as I believe it is correct both ways, with or without.
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