Category talk:Player organizations

Naming convention for player organizations and families

As part of the drive for standardizing page name conventions, we have come to the point we need to decide how to handle the page names of player organizations. Caraamon and I had a very brief discussion and came up with a basic guideline, but now need to open it up for suggestion and comment. What we came up with is as follows:

• Pages for official player organizations will have their page names be exactly as it appears in the Official Player-Run Organizations folder on the official forums.
• Pages for unofficial player organizations or families that have a folder in the Unofficial Player Guilds, Clans and Families folder on the official forums will have their page names be exactly as it appears in that folder.
• Player families without a folder on the official forums will have their page name indicate their functional status as opposed to a nickname or other designation. E.g. "Fancypants family" instead of "House Fancypants" or "The Fancypants Imperium." This includes multiple-family structures.
• Player organizations without a folder on the official forums that do not have a family structure will have their page name be the functional name of their organization without any nicknames or shortened versions. E.g. "Acenamacra militia" instead of "Acenamcrannihalators" or "The Acenamacra Reds."

In short, the suggestion is to have the page name be simply the functional name of the organization/family unless they have a folder on the official forums in which case the page name will be that instead. Note that a page's contents can include any nicknames or other designations without issue as long as they meet general content standards. These guidelines are only for the page title itself.
Again, I stress this is currently up for consideration as part of a general drive for page name standards and feedback is welcome.--ABSOLON (talk) 22:24, 24 January 2015 (CST)