Category talk:WikiPOBia

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Re: naming conventions

To avoid confusion between real and fictional places, ships and events; I suggest that the sub category heading contain an indicator whether it is real or fictional. For example, the sub category ships, and article lepoard. It is not clear in the articles opening whether the article refers to the actual or fictional ship. The title bar could resolve this. If a standard convention is adopted now, it will avoid later confusion. --Sic Transit 01:02, 4 June 2007 (BST)

There is a note in the Naming conventions article that (ship) refers to ships in various books, while (historical ship) is a designation for an actual ship. Am I missing your point?

The pertinent bit from naming conventions:

For disambiguated names or names of secondary articles on a topic, the disambiguating text or secondary name should be placed inside parentheses following the primary name and the following conventions should be used:

* (novel) – for disambiguating book names

* (character) – for disambiguating character names

* (ship) – for disambiguating ship names

* (historical ship) – for articles on the real ships related to ships in O'Brian's work.

* for other less standard cases (like Jahleel Brenton), as concise an identifying description as possible --LadyShelley 02:35, 4 June 2007 (BST)