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===Article Titles===
 
Titles of articles should be singular. However, it is easy to have wikilinks that are plural which direct to singular titles. For example: <code><nowiki>[[Highprince]]s</nowiki></code> instead of <code><nowiki>[[Highprinces]]</nowiki></code>. You can also use apostrophes similarly.
 
Generally speaking, character articles should be titled with the character's full name. For [[Shin]], this means the complete "Name-son/daughter-Parent" name. There are two exceptions to this: [[Vin]] is used over Vin Venture and [[Szeth]] is used over Szeth-son-Neturo or Szeth-son-son-Vallano. If a character's full name is not known ''and'' they are generally addressed with a title, the article's title should include the character's title. For example, it's <code>[[Mrs. Chamwit]]</code> not <code>Chamwit</code> and <code>[[Lady Lentin]]</code> not <code>Lentin</code>. Titles may also be used when the article name needs to be made [[wikipedia:Help:Disambiguation|unambiguous]], for example <code>[[Lady ZoBell]]</code> and <code>[[General Khal]]</code>.
Character articles should not include honorifics (don't include, say "Highprince" to a person's name, and should consist of their full name, like [[Torol Sadeas]] (one exception to the full name rule is that [[Vin]] should not be moved to "Vin Venture")).
 
In situations where a character is addressed both with and without a title and one isn't much more common than the other, consider the surrounding context (e.g. the two lords who switch their votes from [[Ashweather Cett|Cett]] to [[Ferson Penrod|Penrod]] are given the pages [[Lord Hue]] and [[Lord Habren]]; Lord Habren has an equal number of references with the "Lord" title and without it, but Lord Hue is always called Lord Hue, and so Lord Habren's page is titled "Lord Habren" to match Lord Hue's), but you should generally consult with the [[Coppermind:Keepers|Keepers]] when naming the articles in grey areas like this.
Beware that, on multiple word wiki titles, there is a difference between "Shattered plains" and "Shattered Plains". Always use standard capitalization for terminology. MediaWiki also differentiates articles depending on whether apostrophes are smart quotes or not, so be sure to use regular quotes, not the curlier quotes a rich word processor like Microsoft Word produces.▼
 
▲Beware that, onarticle multipletitles wordare wikicase titlessensitive for all letters except the first (so, there is a difference between "Shattered<code>[[BioChromatic plains"Breath]]</code>, <code>Biochromatic Breath</code>, and "Shattered<code>Biochromatic breath</code>, but not between <code>[[BioChromatic Breath]]</code> and <code>[[bioChromatic Breath]]</code> [though, even if you made that first <code>b</code> lowercase when you created the page, MediaWiki would still render it as Plains"uppercase]). Always use standard capitalization for terminology. MediaWiki also differentiates articles depending on whether apostrophes are smart quotes or not, so be sure to use regular quotes, not the curlier quotes a rich word processor like Microsoft Word produces.
 
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