505254 - Consider stripping trailing periods in add-on names when using them in user messages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

Attachment: redundant full stop

steps to reproduce:
1.Log in to your AMO account
2.Go to https://preview.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9412
3.Select a collection from the drop-down list under "Add to a collection" section.
4.Click "Publish"
5.Notice the success message

observed behavior:
If the add-on name ends with a full stop,then the success message also has this full stop in the middle of the sentence.(see attached image)

Comment 1

[Jeff Balogh (:jbalogh)]

The name of this add-on is "Infoaxe: Full Text Web History Search synchronized between Firefox, IE on multiple computers.", so that period in the middle of the sentence is not our doing

Comment 2

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

Here the expectation was that trailing periods would be stripped off the add-on name when we use it in user messages.I am reopening for your consideration..but if you think its still invalid,please mark it so.

Comment 3

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Dupe of bug 503091? I know, that bug is about *leading* characters, but I think this is the same type of request.

Comment 4

[Jeff Balogh (:jbalogh)]

The eventual solution for bug 503091 could probably be applied here but I don't think it's a dupe, at least in spirit.  This bug is more of a social problem, that people don't understand the difference between titles and descriptions.

CCing Mr. Win for a decision.

Comment 5

[fcp]

There might be cases where we do not want to remove the trailing period from an add-on name.  For example, an add-on name might happen to end with “U.S.A.”  I have not bothered to find an actual example, though.  Just my two cents.

Comment 6

[Nick Nguyen [:osunick]]

WONTFIXED.  this is easy enough for users to fix themselves if they want.