Pointing words

names and sentences that point instead of naming

The pointing check refuses a name or a sentence that points at the page or the project instead of naming it.^[1] To a reader who arrived from a search, this repository is no repository at all, and This site reads as nothing in a contents box.^[1] Headings are held to the same openings, as described on Headings.

Names

A page title, infobox group or infobox label that opens with this, that, these, those, our or here is refused.^[2] The check names the title, group or label, and asks for the thing itself.^[2]

Prose

A sentence, subtitle or intent is refused when this, these or our comes directly before repository, repositories, repo, project, site, website, wiki, tool, package or codebase.^[3] The check quotes the sentence with its page and line, and asks for the project's name.^[3]

Words inside code are left alone, because a message the software prints is quoted as it is.^[4]