Talk:Arabic letter mark

Merge proposal

I think the pages Left-to-right mark, Right-to-left mark and this page should be merged. They are basically duplicates of each other due to how similar the subjects, aka their underlying characters are. We could name the new article Implicit Directional MarksEDIT:Implicit directional marks 12:37, 26 October 2024 (UTC) after the name used in the Unicode standard for these three characters. Merging all three to Bidirectional text would also be fine by me. Nickps (talk) 17:19, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

A joint page for the three sounds like a good idea, but perhaps Implicit directional mark, preferring both sentence case and singular. As each of the terms can be described as an implicit directional mark I think that the singular works. Klbrain (talk) 18:12, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

I agree about the sentence case, but not the singular. WP:PLURAL says that we should use plural titles for classes of objects. Here, we are dealing with a class of Unicode characters so the plural feels more appropriate. Nickps (talk) 12:09, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

I also support combining the pages, I think there's a lot of overlap. However, I think that the plural form is preferable. Information on the page should be relevant to the category as a category (Shared history, Unicode modifications, references to the Unicode Bidi algorithm) and not as individual marks. Additionally, information like how to encode the characters in different formats (I see that the RTL mark has the HTML and Unicode encodings) should be specified for all of the (three) characters, which again is descriptive of the entire category and not of a single character. Nimi142 (talk) 10:37, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Since none of us oppose the merge so far, I've made a draft at Draft:Implicit directional marks. I did use my preferred title for the draft, but that doesn't mean it's final. We can still move it to the singular title later if we decide to. Nickps (talk) 12:48, 26 October 2024 (UTC)