Wikipedia:Proposed naming conventions and guidelines

This page lists proposed naming conventions to be listed on the page WP:Naming conventions. Some of these proposals are inactive.

Proposals

Proposed conventions

Wine and viticulture: If there is need for disambiguation, in the first instance, use (wine) to indicate an article falls under the field of wine and viticulture. Exceptions are when the topic better corresponds with (grape) or (wine region).

Proposed guideline pages

• Armenian names: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Armenian)
• Cyrillic: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)
  • Belarusian names
  • Bulgarian names
  • Macedonian names
  • Serbian names
  • Ukrainian
• Greek: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Greek)
• Hebrew and Israeli names: Convention: in progress, see Wikipedia:Hebrew and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew)
• India and Sri Lanka: people – Dharmic – Indic: see
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people of India and Sri Lanka) (currently only containing info on the use of honorifics)
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Dharmic)
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic)
• Macedonia-related topics: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Macedonia)
• New Zealand place names: see Wikipedia:Naming Conventions (New Zealand).
• Norway-related topics: see Wikipedia:WikiProject Norway
• Numismatics (currencies, coins and banknotes): Competing/overlapping proposals: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Currencies and/or Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics/Style#Article titles.
• Sexuality: Convention: in progress, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and Sexuality.
• Tibetan: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Tibetan)
• Vietnamese: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Vietnamese)
• Video games: see Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines/Naming

Inactive

These conventions have failed to find consensus and retained for historical reference; however, please feel free to revive discussion on a particular subject, either by using the Talk page or start a discussion at the Village pump.

• Arabic names: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Arabic)
• Buildings and landmarks: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (architecture) → concentrating on buildings (and landmarks?) (architects are covered by Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people).)
• Czech names: see Wikipedia:Naming policy (Czech)
• Diacritics (on standard letters): see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (standard letters with diacritics) and Wikipedia:Use diacritics
• Ethno-cultural labels: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions/Ethno-cultural labels in biographies
• Greek and Turkish named places: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Greek and Turkish named places)
• Polish monarchs: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Polish rulers) – Rejected guideline, but included here since many other pages are linking to this location.
• Roads and Highways: see Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways – Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/U.S. state highway naming conventions
• Seasons: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Seasons)
• Slovene/Slovenian: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Slovenian vs Slovene)
• Schools: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (schools)
• Subnational entities: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (subnational entities)
• Swedish names: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Swedish)

Geographic locations

• Cities: Wikipedia:Naming policy poll – Poll re: official location name (generally cities) different than what is used in most English resources

• Lithuania and Poland cities: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Lithuania and Poland cities)

• Provinces: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (provinces)
• Subnational entities – Wikipedia:Naming conventions (subnational entities)

Sports

• Football in Australia: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Football in Australia)
• Sports teams: Naming convention for sports teams
• Hockey: Naming conventions (hockey) and Naming conventions (ice hockey)