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<span style="color:#093">The attestation and idiomaticity requirements apply to names of specific entities, just as to any other terms: if a name is not found in use, or if its full meaning is transparent from component words, then it should not be included. Where allowed, descriptions should be succinct rather than encyclopedic.</span> |
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Revision as of 20:06, 25 January 2011
Names of individuals
- Voting on the following change to criteria for inclusion.
The section "Names of specific entities", which currently reads as follows:
This section regulates the inclusion and exclusion of names of specific entities, that is, names of individual people, names of geographic entities, names of mythological creatures, names of planets and stars, etc.
Many names of specific entities should be excluded while some should be included. With the exception of geographic entities (for which see the section "Place names"), there is no agreement on specific rules for the inclusion of names of specific entities.
will now read as follows:
This section regulates the inclusion and exclusion of names of specific entities, that is, names of individual people, names of geographic features, names of celestial objects, names of mythological creatures, titles of various works, etc. Some examples include the Internet, the Magna Carta, the Mona Lisa, the Qur'an, the Red Cross, the Titanic, and World War II.
Many names of specific entities should be excluded while some should be included. There is no agreement on precise, all-encompassing rules for the inclusion of names of specific entities, but policies exist for names of certain kinds of entities. In particular:
- No individual person should be listed as a sense in any entry whose page title includes both a given name or diminutive and a family name or patronymic. For instance, Walter Elias Disney, the film producer and voice of Mickey Mouse, is not allowed a definition line at Walt Disney.
- Names of specific companies and of specific places are governed by the “Company names” and “Place names” sections of this page, respectively.
- For fictional people and places, names as with other terms are governed by the “Fictional universes” section of this page.
The attestation and idiomaticity requirements apply to names of specific entities, just as to any other terms: if a name is not found in use, or if its full meaning is transparent from component words, then it should not be included. Where allowed, descriptions should be succinct rather than encyclopedic.
- Vote starts: 00:00, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
- Vote ends: 24:00, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
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- Vote created: DAVilla 02:11, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
- Discussion:
