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Minimum length of a proposed community name
The minimum title length here on Proposals Meta is 15 characters. This setting is adjustable per category. A Proposed community name may be shorter than this, so the minimum title length for a new proposal is 5 characters.
However, it seems reasonable to expect there to be communities that have a name that is shorter than 5 characters. The current limit would allow proposing a community called "Chess", but not a community called "Go". There is also an existing example: the proposed "Law" community has quotation marks in its name to work around this.
What should be the minimum number of characters for a proposed community name?
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| will.octagon.gibson | (no comment) | Apr 9, 2026 at 22:38 |
1 character
Unsuitable community names will already be dealt with by editing, or by flagging where this is insufficient. I see no reason to impose any particular minimum length. The board game "Go" seems a reasonable name, with only 2 characters. Allowing 2 characters but forbidding 1 seems arbitrary.
I suggest making the limit 1 character so the discussion does not need to be raised again if a shorter name is required. This effectively means there is no character limit, other than requiring the name be non-empty.
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