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Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions (names and titles)

Convention: In general, use the most common form of the name used in English and disambiguate the names of monarchs of modern countries in the format ].

There are several conventions for the names of historical people.

  • In general, use the most commonly recognized English-language form of the name.
  • For kings, emperors, tsars, and so forth, use only the first name, the ordinal (for example I, II) and "of Country". When a ruler reigns over more than one country, list under his/her highest-ranking title. Please don't use cognomens in a title (for example "the Great").
  • For other members of the nobility, counts, dukes, etc., "First name, (ordinal), title of place" like "Stephen, Count of Blois" or "Albert III, Duke of Saxony". English-speakers do not put family names as part of the title; since this is an English-language wiki, please respect that.
  • Other names and titles, if any, should appear in the first paragraph of the article so they can be searched for.

Exceptions

If a person is best known by his cognomen, or by a name that doesn't exactly fit the guidelines above (for example, Louis the Pious, Duke of Wellington--the first one), then that's how it should read.

Roman Emperors don't need the "of the Roman Empire" nor would Pericles be "of Athens"--their names already indicate where they're from. Also, with Germanic peoples (and any other leaders of a people, rather than a country or nation), if any description at all is used (and this is something the early medievalists should work on), it should be "of the Goths", etc. Again, this is something that has not been much discussed, so please contribute to a discussion of how to do it before randomly creating pages!

Some discussions on nomenclature are on the wikipedia talk:Naming conventions page. See also Misplaced Pages:History standards. If there are wikipedians out there who know more about this subject, please add to the discussion.

See also: Misplaced Pages:History standards