Wikipedia:Proposed naming conventions and guidelines

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

Proposals

The following are proposed guideline pages:

Catholic Church: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Catholic Church)
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)

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These conventions have failed to find consensus and retained for historical reference; however, please feel free to revive discussion on a particular subject, either by using the Talk page or start a discussion at the Village pump.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