Naming conventions are a list of guidelines on how to create and name pages, to avoid conflicts.

Generally, article naming should prefer what the greatest number 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.

This is justified by the following principle:

The names of articles should be optimized for readers over editors, and for a general audience over specialists.

If an article has been named inappropriately, it can be renamed by moving the article to a more appropriate title. See Help:Moving a page for more information.

Contents 1 General conventions 1.1 Lowercase second and subsequent words in titles 1.2 Use Keywords 1.3 Prefer singular nouns 1.4 Redirect adjectives to nouns 1.5 Use gerund of verbs 1.6 Use English words 1.7 Use common names of persons and things 1.8 Be precise when necessary 1.9 Prefer spelled-out phrases to abbreviations 1.10 Avoid the definite article ("the") and the indefinite article ("a"/"an") at the beginning of the page name 1.11 Use of "and" 1.12 Special characters 1.13 Avoid non alpha-numeric characters used only for emphasis 1.14 Controversial names 1.15 Use standard English for titles even if trademarks encourage otherwise 1.16 Avoid using "how to" for page titles 1.17 Other specific conventions 1.17.1 Numbers and dates 1.17.2 People 1.17.3 Corporation/Alliance names 1.18 See Also

General conventions

Lowercase second and subsequent words in titles

Convention: Do not capitalize second and subsequent words unless the title is almost always capitalized in English or in game (for example, proper names, like corporation or alliance names). Thus, capitalize "Republic Fleet" but not "Network Settings"

Rationale and specifics: See Wikipedia:Canonicalization.

Use Keywords

Keywords are easier to remember for future linking. They also make the page quicker to find. So instead of creating a page "Guide to a better understanding of the Amarr culture", call this page "Amarr Culture".

Prefer singular nouns

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 scissors or trousers).

Exceptions include Hermite polynomials, Arabic numerals, polar coordinates, ...

Redirect adjectives to nouns

Convention: Adjectives (such as democratic) should redirect to nouns (in this case, democracy).

Use gerund of verbs

Convention: Use the gerund of verbs (the -ing form in English) unless there is a more common form for a certain verb.

Use English words

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 recognized by readers than the English form. The choice between anglicized and native spellings should follow English usage. Both "US" and "English" form of specific words are accepted in the EVElopedia.

Use common names of persons and things

Convention: Use the most common name of a person or thing that does not conflict with the names of other people or things. Where articles have descriptive names, the given name must be neutrally worded.

Be precise when necessary

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. If all possible words have multiple meanings, go with the rule of thumb of naming guidelines and use the more popular term.

Prefer spelled-out phrases to abbreviations

Convention: Avoid the use of abbreviations, including acronyms, in page naming unless the term you are naming is almost exclusively known only by its abbreviation and is widely known and used in that form. Laser, radar, ladar are good examples of acronyms that are commonly thought of as words. On the other hand, abbreviations should not be used, although a redirect from an abbreviation to the proper page is acceptable for use in disambiguation.

Avoid the definite article ("the") and the indefinite article ("a"/"an") at the beginning of the page name

Convention: If the definite or indefinite article would be capitalized in running text, then include it at the beginning of the page name. This would be the case for the title of a work such as a novel. Otherwise, do not include it at the beginning of the page name.

Examples: "The Scope" if fine as it is a Chronicle name and the official name of a NPC corp, "The Rifter and how to use it" is not.

Use of "and"

Do not use "and" to bias article names. For example, the article would be Minmatar enslavement, rather than "Minmatars and enslavement".

Special characters

Some special characters either cannot be used or may cause problems. For example you should not use a piping character (|), curly braces ({}), or square brackets ([]) in a name.

Separate accent-like and/or quote-like characters (including, but not limited to ʻ, ʾ, ʿ, ᾿, ῾, ‘, “, ’, ”, combining diacritical marks combined with a "space" character,...) should be avoided in page names. A common exception is the apostrophe ' character (e.g. Anthony d'Offay), which should however be used sparingly (e.g. Shia instead of Shi'a).

Non-language characters such as "♥", "★", and "*", are not considered as being the common English usage.

Avoid non alpha-numeric characters used only for emphasis

To maintain the functionality of Alphabetical Indexing and avoid needless redirect pages, page names should not begin with non alpha-numeric (A-Z,0-9) characters used solely for emphasis.

Non alpha-numeric characters may still be appropriate if a common term for the article is generally expressed as a non alpha-numeric phrase. In these cases the character(s) are not being used solely for emphasis. A redirect page may be helpful in such cases.

Examples of improper article names: ****Encyclopedia**** , !List of things I like , "Catching thieves".

Controversial names

The purpose of an article's title is to enable that article to be found by interested readers, and nothing more. In particular, the current title of a page does not imply either a preference for that name, or that any alternative name is discouraged in the text of articles. Generally, an article's title should not be used as a precedent for the naming of any other articles. Editors are strongly discouraged from editing for the sole purpose of changing one controversial name to another. If an article name has been stable for a long time, and there is no good reason to change it, it should remain. Especially when there is no other basis for a decision, the name given the article by its creator should prevail. Any proposal to change between names should be examined on a case-by-case basis, and discussed on talk pages before a name is changed. However, debating controversial names is often unproductive.

Use standard English for titles even if trademarks encourage otherwise

Convention: Follow standard English text formatting for article names that are trademarks. Items in full or partial uppercase (such as Invader ZIM) should have standard capitalisation (Invader Zim).

Exceptions include article titles with the first letter lowercase and the second letter uppercase, such as iPod and eBay.

Avoid using "how to" for page titles

Instead of naming a page "How to change my network settings on X system", call the page "Network settings on X system". It has much better chances to find its way through the player's queries this way.

Other specific conventions

Numbers and dates

Articles about numbers and related meanings are at N (number) without commas, for example 1729 (number), not Seventeen hundred twenty-nine nor One thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine nor Number 1729 nor 1,729. The name 1729 itself is for the year 1729 AD. So use the name Form 1040, not 1040 (the year Macbeth became King of Scotland), and Intel 80386, not 386 (the year the Northern Wei Dynasty began to rule China).

People

The idea that names in the format <First name> <Last name> are usually the least problematic as page name for an article on a single person. This can cause problems where the correct representation of the person's name is different from the way it is used in English, in the case of some people who are from countries where the surname is given first, rather than last. For example, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon would be referred to as Mr. Ban, not Mr. Ki-moon, and by standard English rules for people's name (surname last), should be listed as Ki-moon Ban.

Corporation/Alliance names

The corporation (or alliance) names should follow the same style of writing as in-game. If the name is just a regular corporation name and not any sorts of abbreviations, then the page name follows the same naming conventions as any other page, i.e first letter of names capitalized only.

If the Corporation name is an abbreviation of some sorts, the wiki page will usually be the expanded name unless the abbreviation name is very common for capsuleers.

Examples (corporation names are fictitious and not intended to refer to any specific corporation or alliance)

• If the in-game name is written as "AMARR SLAVERS", the Corporation page will be "Amarr Slavers (Player corporation)"
• If the in-game name is written as "*R I F T E R S*", then wiki page will be "Rifters (Player corporation)"
• If the in-game is "HSS Insurance", standing for "High Security Sector Insurance", the wiki page should be "High Security Sector Insurance (Player corporation) with a redirect from "HSS Insurance (Player corporation)" to "High Security Sector Insurance (Player corporation)"
• If the in-game name is clearly an abbreviation, but which original meaning is not known, or which is the only obvious name under which the corporation/alliance is known, the corporation name can then remain the abbreviated form like "HSS Insurance (Player corporation)". This applies mainly to long established alliances and corporations.

See Also

Disambiguation