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This page is for vetting ideas regarding the conventions or best practices we should provide to help contributors create clear, unambiguous, intuitive titles. | This page is for vetting ideas regarding the conventions or best practices we should provide to help contributors create clear, unambiguous, intuitive titles. | ||
== | == Decisions Needed<br> == | ||
# | # Whether to use jurisdictional identifiers (the word "county," "parish," "township," etc.) in place names. | ||
# The number of jurisdictional levels to include in a place title. For example, should one title an article "Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland" or "Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States?"<br> | # The number of jurisdictional levels to include in a place title. For example, should one title an article "Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland" or "Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States?"<br> | ||
# | # When to use historical vs. modern names. In covering information on Utah before it became a state, is it wise to create a new article on "Utah Territory, United States?" This may be less an issue of naming conventions than an issue of when to fork an article in two. Therefore, I will probably make this the subject of a new article.<br> | ||
# The use of upper or lowercase in titles. Exact Match on this MediaWiki search engine is case sensitive. For that reason, Wikipedia organizers have created a naming convention that all words in the title after the first which are not proper nouns must be lowercase. This site, unlike Wikipedia, uses the case-insensitive Search rather than case-sensitive Go or Exact Match as its default for searches. | # The use of upper or lowercase in titles. Exact Match on this MediaWiki search engine is case sensitive. For that reason, Wikipedia organizers have created a naming convention that all words in the title after the first which are not proper nouns must be lowercase. This site, unlike Wikipedia, uses the case-insensitive Search rather than case-sensitive Go or Exact Match as its default for searches. | ||
# The use of special characters, such as commas, colons, parenthesis, and hyphens. | # The use of special characters, such as commas, colons, parenthesis, and hyphens. | ||
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== Principles<br> == | == Principles<br> == | ||
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# Including all jurisdictional handles in a title tends to result in many undesired search engine results. Thus, if towns are named like "Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States," an article on tax records of the town might be titled "Tax Records of Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States." But under such a system, if a user trying to find United States federal tax records searches "United States tax," the search engine results will list every article on tax records for every town in the U.S. rather than just articles on United States federal tax records.<br> | # Including all jurisdictional handles in a title tends to result in many undesired search engine results. Thus, if towns are named like "Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States," an article on tax records of the town might be titled "Tax Records of Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States." But under such a system, if a user trying to find United States federal tax records searches "United States tax," the search engine results will list every article on tax records for every town in the U.S. rather than just articles on United States federal tax records.<br> | ||
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== Resources == | == Resources == | ||
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=== General === | === General === | ||
[http://category:Wikipedia_naming_conventions/ Category:Wikipedia naming conventions] <br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions Wikipedia:Naming conventions] <br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conflict Wikipedia:Naming conflict] <br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28technical_restrictions%29 Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)] <!--{ | [http://category:Wikipedia_naming_conventions/ Category:Wikipedia naming conventions] <br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions Wikipedia:Naming conventions] <br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conflict Wikipedia:Naming conflict] <br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28technical_restrictions%29 Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)] <!--{12069757226094} --> | ||
=== Special rules for templates === | === Special rules for templates === | ||
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=== Special rules for namespaces === | === Special rules for namespaces === | ||
Only a system admin can create a namespace. Namespaces should be created only after much discussion. The name should be a single word.<br><br>Headings:<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Section_headings Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Section headings] <br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Section#Creation_and_numbering_of_sections Help:Section - Creation and numbering of sections] <br><br>Categories:<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28categories%29 Wikipedia:Naming conventions & categories] <br> <!--{ | Only a system admin can create a namespace. Namespaces should be created only after much discussion. The name should be a single word.<br><br>Headings:<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Section_headings Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Section headings] <br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Section#Creation_and_numbering_of_sections Help:Section - Creation and numbering of sections] <br><br>Categories:<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28categories%29 Wikipedia:Naming conventions & categories] <br> <!--{12069757226095} --> <!--{12069757226096} --> <!--{12069757226097} --> <!--{12069757226098} --> <!--{12069757226099} --> | ||
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