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Putting "unnamed", "unknown", or "anonymous" before the titles is bad practice for a number of reasons: * It's redundant. If they weren't unnamed, they'd, well, have a name. ;-) So it's just an unnecessary word in the title. * It makes navigating categories, or any list of article titles, more difficult. First, all articles beginning with "unknown", "unnamed", or "anonymous" are all lumped under "U" or "A" respectively in categories, pretty much defeating the purpose of the alphabetical sorting. And second, they hide the actual important part of the title. If I'm looking in a category for a Human Jedi, it's a lot easier to find when it's called "Human Jedi" then when it's called "Unknown Human Jedi". Scanning a list of titles is a lot more annoying and tedious when you have to ignore

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