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
Proposed guideline pages
- Cyrillic: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic) (for Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Ukrainian)
- India and Sri Lanka: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic), Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Dharmic)
- Tibetan: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Tibetan)
- Vietnamese: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Vietnamese)
Information and discussions about article naming can also sometimes be found on WikiProject pages for a given subject.
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These conventions have failed to find consensus and retained for historical reference; however, please feel free to revive discussion on a particular subject, either by using the Talk page or start a discussion at the Village pump.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)