Help talk:Writing an article about a person

Categorization Question

As the wiki grows, there is a question over how to categorize people and places - please see the 'debate' here: Forum:Categories about people inconsistency. Currently the help pages are inconsistent re which fashion to adopt.--Fleanetha 22:14, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Proposal: Document naming convention

There is no documentation on this page of any naming conventions for people. For instance, should the article name include or omit any titles, nicknames, or honorifics? How do we disambiguate articles for people with the same name?

== Naming the article ==
When naming an article about a person, use the person's full name when known and avoid including any titles, nicknames, or honorifics.

If an article already exists at that name, descriptively disambiguate it in parentheses after the name (such as {{xt|Jane Doe (Chelish Navy)}}. If there are several articles for the same name, consider creating a disambiguation page. For details, see the [[PathfinderWiki:Disambiguation|Disambiguation policy]].

-Oznogon (talk) 00:13, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Looks good to me and a good spot. I don't think we need a formal proposal to update the help pages to explain wiki policy, so I'd just update the page. --Fleanetha (talk) 23:29, 11 April 2016 (UTC)