Introduction[edit | edit source]

Current naming practices for Germany yield long, cumbersome page titles and complicate searches. This is a proposal for renaming the German locality pages in order to improve the user experience.

A study of the German and English Wikipedia and the German GenWiki showed that each handles German locality names differently.

Objectives[edit | edit source]

The objectives of this project are to
1. Simplify the current locality structure
2. Establish uniform locality page naming guidelines for the area covered by the former German Empire

Anticipated Benefits[edit | edit source]

Page titles will be clearer and searches made easier less confusing
Simplified locality names will work much better with the clickable maps that will soon be added to the country-, state-, and regional pages
Page naming guidelines will enable users to distinguish between localities with the same name and find an article about a particular town more easily,
Systematic naming practices will ensure that there is only one main page for each locality, with links from other cross-references to that page.