BR Bullpen:Naming Conventions

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Naming conventions is a list of guidelines on how to appropriately create and name pages.

General Conventions

Lowercase second and subsequent words

Convention: Do not capitalize second and subsequent words unless the title is a proper noun (such as a name) or is otherwise almost always capitalized (ex. Bill Freehan, Muncie Reds, Kootenay and Washington League)

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.

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 used in English than the English form.

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.

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.

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.

Proposed conventions

People

Proposal A

• Use the person's name in the format, <First name> <Last name>.
• If there is more than one person with that name, use the format <First name> <Last name> (id), where id is the first five letters of the person's last name, followed by the first two letters of the person's first name and two numbers unique to the player. If a person has less than five letters in their last name or two in their first spaces should not be added. All letters should be in lowercase. Spaces a not to be considered, but any other characters (apostrophes, hyphens) are to be. Sequential numbers are preffered.
  • Luis de los Santos (deloslu01) and Luis de los Santos (deloslu02) << removal of spaces
  • Al Shaw (shawal01) and Al Shaw (shawal02) << last name has less than five letters
• Maintain diacritics in names.
  • Raúl Mondesí versus Raul Mondesi

Places

Proposal A

• Use the place's common short name.
• Use the spelling used by the local populace.
  • Massachusetts not Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• For nations and first-order subnational entity (state, province, prefecture, etc.) use just the name with no extra precision unless necessary.
  • Massachusetts not Massachusetts, United States
  • Kagoshima Prefecture since there is a city named Kagoshima; Kagoshima should be a disambiguation page
• For all smaller places use the format:
  • if located in the United States, Canada, or Puerto Rico; use PLACE, STATE (Two letter ISO code)
    • Las Vegas, NV not [[Las Vegas, Nevada]], Montreal, QC not [[Montreal, Quebec]]
  • if located anywhere else; use PLACE, STATE (short)

Teams

Proposal A

• Use the name that is used by the team itself
  • Louisville RiverBats not [[Louisville Riverbats]],
• If there is more than one team with that name in different places, use the format Offical Name (division), where division is the team's first-order subnational entity (state, province, prefecture, etc.) in short form.
  • Springfield Cardinals (Missouri) and Springfield Cardinals (Illinois)
• If there is more than one team with that name in the same place, use the format Offical Name (league), where league is an abbreviation of the team's league.
  • Washington Nationals (AA) versus Washington Nationals (UA)
• If the team did not have a nickname (often teams would just go by their city's name), use the format Name (league), where league is an team's league in full including league, association, etc.
  • Latrobe (Western Pennsylvania League) versus Latrobe

Proposal B

As in Proposal A above, but with the following changes:

• If there is more than one team with that name in different places, use the format Place (division) Team Name, where division is the team's first-order subnational entity (state, province, etc.) using standard abbreviations, place is the place name used in the team's ordinary name (city, town, multi-city area, etc.), and team name is the team's nickname.
  • Springfield (MO) Cardinals and Springfield (IL) Cardinals
• If there is a conflict in both name and league, use Place (division) Team Name (league).

Schools (including universities, colleges, and high schools)

Proposal A

• Use the Offical School Name.
  • University of Texas at Austin not University of Texas
• If there is more than one school with that name, use the format Offical School Name (term), where term is either the school's city or first-order subnational entity (state, province, prefecture, etc.) in short form.
  • Schools with no competing pages: Daitetsu High School
  • Schools with one or more competing pages: Central High School (Bridgeport) and Central High School (Peoria)
  • Schools with one or more competing pages in the same state: Podunk High School (Podunk, Oregon) and Podunk High School (Portland, Oregon)

Japanese High Schools

Proposal A

Kanji	Kana	Romanized	English
The following kanji are transliterated according to Hepburn romanization, with a few possible exceptions (below).
商業	しょうぎょう	sh(ou)gy(ou)	commerce/business/trade [school]
学院	がくいん	gakuin	institute/academy
学園	がくえん	gakuen	academy
工業	こうぎょう	kougy(ou)	(manufacturing) industry - technical
工大	こうだい	k(ou)dai	technical college
商大	しょうだい	sh(ou)dai	commercial college
商工	しょうこう	sh(ou)k(ou)	commerce and industry - commercial and technical
The following should be translated into their English equivalents:
高等学校	こうとうがっこう	koutougakkou	senior high school > High School
高校	こうこう	koukou	senior high school (abbreviation) > High School
The following should not be included:
県立	けんりつ	kenritsu	prefectural (and prefecture name if given)

• For the long vowels of o and u, we could either use macrons (ō and ū), single vowels, or doubled vowels.
• For doubled vowels of (i.e ou), we could only use the leading vowel; Teikyou becomes Teikyo.
• For gakuin and gakuen, don't include high school.

Proposal B

Translate all kanji. For gakuin and gakuen, don't include high school. Offically used English names by the school supercede any romanization.

Examples

Here are some examples (using short vowels):

Kanji	Kana	Transliteration	Proposal A (with macrons)	Proposal B (no macrons)
福岡工業大学附属城東高等学校	ふくおかこうぎょうだいがくふぞく　じょうとうこうとうがっこう	Fukuoka Kougyou Daigaku Fuzoku Jyoutou Koutougakkou	Fukuoka Institute of Technology - Jyōtō High School	Fukuoka Institute of Technology - Jyoto High School
佐賀県立佐賀商業高等学校	さかけんりつさかしょうぎょうこうとうがっこう	Saga Kenritsu Saga Shougyou Koutougakkou	Saga Shōgyō High School	Saga Commercial High School
長崎県立清峰高等学校	ながさきけんりつ せいほうこうとうがっこう	Nagasaki Kenritsu Seihou Koutougakkou	Seihō High School	Seiho High School
県立熊本工業高等学校	くまもとけんりつ くまもとこうぎょうこうこう	Kenritsu Kumamoto Kougyou Koutougakkou	Kumamoto Kōgyō High School	Kumamoto Technical High School
県立鶴崎工業高等学校	おおいたけんりつつるさきこうぎょうこうとうがっこう	Kenritsu Tsurusaki Kougyou Koutougakkou	Tsurusaki Kōgyō High School	Tsurusaki Technical High School
延岡学園高等学校	のべおかがくえん こうとうがっこう	Nobeoka Gakuen Koutougakkou	Nobeoka Gakuen	Nobeoka Gakuen
鹿児島県立鹿児島工業高等学校	かごしまけんりつかごしまこうぎょうこうとうがっこう	Kagoshima Kenritsu Kagoshima Kougyou Koutougakkou	Kagoshima Kōgyō High School	Kagoshima Technical High School
沖縄県立八重山商工高等学校	おきなわけんりつ やえやましょうこうこうとうがっこう	Okinawa Kenritsu Yaeyama Shoukou Koutougakkou	Yaeyama Shōkō High School	Yaeyama Commercial and Technical High School