Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (file formats)

I'm not happy about "TAR file format". Firstly, many people advocate writing file extensions in lowercase. Secondly, it's a pain to use, since most computing articles will only want to write "tar".

I suggest one of:

• "tar (file format)"
• "tar (computing)"
• "tar (format)"

(this is of course only for those names that require disambiguation. Pages like "PNG" and "JPEG" don't need anything in parentheses)

-- tarquin

(by the way, I've just noticed on Talk:Tar that it was ME who suggested the "TAR file format" article name. Aaaaaarg. Have I been sleepwalking or something? -- Tarquin 11:44 Jan 11, 2003 (UTC))

"tar (file format)" is probably best. Upper vs lower case is a tricky one: some extensions are acronyms which implies upper case, but on the whole, lower case seems better. I think it's more common at any rate. Tannin