Maybe we then should remove the noun at all. Actually almost every other 
application uses one of
a) New …
b) New Name1
    New Name2
    New Name3
    …

I have never seen an application with „New Item“.

Am 18.03.2014 um 17:54 schrieb Daniel Beck <[email protected]>:

> 
> On 18.03.2014, at 10:19, Ulli Hafner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> After upgrading Jenkins I noticed that the toplevel menu item 'New Job' has 
>> been renamed to 'New Item'. All other links, messages, etc. still call the 
>> created item "job".
> 
> Before you create something, it can be anything, so the link is labeled 'New 
> Item' (wouldn't make sense to label it 'New Project' and you're creating a 
> folder, or monitor-external-job, both of which aren't projects).
> 
> After you've created it, it's one of the specific types, so its pronoun can 
> be used.
> 
> Cloudbees Folders Plus allows restricting a folder's child item types, and 
> when you restrict to only one, it'll use 'New [Pronoun]' for the label.
> 
> Still, if all you have are jobs and subtypes of it, Jenkins should determine 
> that and show the 'Job' pronoun instead.
> 
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