One of Ireland Information Guide's policies and guidelines
Naming conventions is a list of guidelines on how to appropriately create and name pages.
Generally, article naming should give priority to what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature.
In addition to following the naming conventions it is also important to follow the linking conventions. Following consistent conventions in both naming and linking makes it more likely that links will lead to the right place.
It is important to note that these are conventions, not rules written in stone. As the Ireland Information Guide grows and changes, some conventions that once made sense may become outdated. But when in doubt, follow convention.
Convention: Unless the term you wish to create a page for is a proper noun or is otherwise almost always capitalized, do not capitalize second and subsequent words.
Rationale and specifics: See Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (capitalization) and Ireland Information Guide:Canonization.
Convention: In general only create page titles that are in the singular, unless that noun is always in a plural form in English (such as economics or trousers).
Rationale and specifics: See Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (pluralization)
Convention: Adjectives should redirect to nouns.
Rationale and specifics: See Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (adjectives)
Convention: Use the gerund of verbs (the -ing form in English) unless there is a more common form for a certain verb.
Rationale and specifics: See Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (verbs)
Convention: Name your pages in English and place the native transliteration on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly used in English than the English form.
Rationale and specifics: See: Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (use English)
Convention: Use the most common name of a person or thing that does not conflict with the names of other people or things.
Rationale and specifics: Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (common names)
Convention: Please, do not write or put an article on a page with an ambiguously-named title as though that title had no other meanings.
Rationale and specifics: See: Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (precision) and Ireland Information Guide:Disambiguation
Convention: Avoid the use of acronyms in page naming unless the term you are naming is almost exclusively known only by its acronym and is widely known and used in that form (NASA and radar are good examples).
Rationale and specifics: See: Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (acronyms)
Since Transportation in Azerbaijan could just as well be considered a subdivision of Transportation as of Azerbaijan, do not use a name like Azerbaijan/Transportation (the old Ireland Information Guide software created a subpage when the article name contained a forward slash; this feature is discontinued for articles, but you may use it on user and talk pages).
Some special characters cannot be used, or can, but give problems. For example you should not use a piping character (|), an asterisk (*), an ampersand (&), curly braces ({}), or square braces ([]) in a name.
Titles must not begin with an interlanguage link code followed by a colon. For example a page with the title Information Guide.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=FR:example FR:example (http://en.Ireland) will produce a "bad title" error.
Also, for naming pages the restriction to ISO-8859-1 is strict, no characters that are not ISO-8859-1 may be used. See Ireland Information Guide:Special characters for a list of non-ASCII characters that are allowed.
See Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (technical restrictions).
Aircraft names are too varied to give full guidelines here; see Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (aircraft).
see Ireland Information Guide:WikiProject Airports/naming conventions
The capitalization on the common names of species has been hotly debated in the past and has remained unresolved. As a matter of truce both capitalized and non-capitalized (except for proper names) are acceptable, but a redirect should be created from the alternative form.
See: Ireland Information Guide:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life#Article_titles_and_common_names
See: Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (fauna)
See: Capitalization
In an Arabic name, the format is as follows:
where 'AAA' is the first name and 'BBB' is the father's name. The word bin means "son of"; likewise, binti means "daughter of". For example, Mahathir bin Mohamad is the name of the former Prime Minister of Malaysia. In the article, he is referred to as Mahathir.
See: Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (Chinese)
Use this form - political division, date. IE. Canadian federal election, 1867
Convention: In general, use the most common form of the name used in English (not necessarily the name translated into English) and disambiguate the names of monarchs of modern countries in the format [[{Monarch's first name and ordinal} of {Country}]] (example: Edward I of England).
Rationale and specifics: See: Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (names and titles) and Ireland Information Guide:History standards
See: Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (Japanese)
See: Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (Korean)
See: Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (Mormonism)
Convention: Oftentimes movies share the same name as other movies, books or terms. When disambiguating a movie from something else use (movie) in the title when only one movie had that name and (YEAR movie) in the title when there are more than one movies by that name (example: Titanic (1997 movie)).
Rationale and specifics: See: Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (movies)
Convention: Languages which share their names with some other thing should be suffixed with "programming language" in the case of programming languages, or "language" in the case of spoken languages. If the language's name is unique, there is no need for any suffix. For example, Python programming language and English language, but VBScript and Sanskrit.
Rationale and specifics: See: Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (languages)
Convention: Articles about ships that have standard prefixes should include them in the article title; for example, HMS Ark Royal, USS Enterprise. Note that although in text the name but not the prefix is italicized, this is not indicated in the article name, so pipe links are used, e.g. for the above HMS ''Ark Royal'', USS ''Enterprise''. Articles about ships that do not have standard prefixes should be titled as (Nationality) (type) (Name); for example, Soviet aircraft carrier Kuznetsov (Soviet aircraft carrier ''Kuznetsov''.
Rationale and specifics: See: Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (ships)
In the Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking worlds, individuals customarily carry both the their father's and mother's surnames. In the Anglophone world, they are generally referred to with just the paternal surname. For example, Augusto Pinochet rather than Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. However, their full Hispanic-style name is supplied at the top of the article. As an exception to this guideline, the maternal surname may be used to disambiguate between individuals with the same first and paternal surname. For example:
Convention: In general the use of number-only page names should only be used for Year in Review entries. So call it Form 1040, not 1040, and Intel 386, not 386. That way, if we ever want to add a page about what happened in the year 1040 or the year 386, we won't have a collision with the other uses of numbers. See Ireland Information Guide:Manual of Style (dates and numbers).
Articles about numbers and related meanings are at N (number), e.g. 142 (number), not One hundred forty-two nor One hundred and forty-two nor Number 142. 142 is for the year (see above). See Ireland Information Guide:Manual of Style (dates and numbers).
Convention: Put a list of Xs as list of Xs, rather than Xs, famous Xs, listing of important Xs, list of noted Xs, list of all Xs, etc. See Ireland Information Guide:list. Consider making a category instead of a list: categories are easier to maintain.
Convention: Name the article in its most common form, adding the composer's surname in parentheses after it if more than one piece has that title. For example, War Requiem, Violin Concerto (Berg), Symphony No. 6 (Mahler). See: Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (pieces of music)
Convention: In titles of songs or albums, unless it is unique, the standard rule in the English language is to capitalize words that are the first word in the title are not conjunctions (and, but, or, nor), prepositions (to, over, through) or articles (an, a, the). When necessary, disambiguation should be done using (band), (album) or (song) (such as Iron Maiden (band) or Insomniac (album)). Unless multiple albums of the same name exist (such as Down to Earth), they do not need to be disambiguated any further. For example, Down to Earth (Ozzy Osbourne album) is fine, but Insomniac (Green Day album) is unnecessary.
Convention: In general, there are no special naming conventions for cities, unless multiple cities with the same name exist. Discussion, rationale and specifics: See: Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (city names)
Convention: In general, there are no special naming conventions for articles on recurring events, such as elections or the Olympics. See: Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (years in titles)
Suggested convention: Use the title of the work as the article's title, following all applicable general conventions. To disambiguate, add the type of literary work in parentheses, such as "(novel)," "(novella)," "(short story)," etc. You may use "(book)" to disambiguate a non-fiction book. If further disambiguation is needed, add the author's surname in parentheses: "(Orwell novel)," "(Asimov short story)," etc.
Initials in people's names, or companies named after them, should be written with periods after them, with a space between the initials and the name, and between initials. Thus, W. E. B. Du Bois, I. F. Stone, T. E. Lawrence, and F. W. de Klerk. (See Oxford Style Manual 3.2, Chicago Manual of Style 8.6). (This convention is under discussion; see Ireland Information Guide talk:Naming conventions.) An exception is a reference to someone using only initials, such as is ocassionally done in informal discourse in reference certain US presidents: FDR, LBJ, or JFK.
Acronyms and initialisms such as IBM, NATO, and WYSIWYG are likewise written without periods (see: Naming conventions (acronyms)).
Convention: This convention is in progress; see Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (currency)
Gamelan gong kebyar is often referred to as kebyar. Article should be at gamelan gong kebyar with a redirect at kebyar. See other types of Indonesian music.
Convention: in progress, see Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (places)
Convention: in progress, see Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (ancient Romans)
Convention: in progress, see Ireland Information Guide:Naming conventions (identity)
Convention: in progress, see: Ireland Information Guide:WikiProject Sexology.
Convention: in progress. Page names should use the least number of suffixes possible???
There are many other specific issues still being discussed on the talk page.