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Most of these conventions are supported by active groups of map makers, and have been created and improved through long and serious discussions. The main intentions are: to display efficiently selected data; to create screen, web, print, creation & share friendly maps; to create a wiki style free of nationalism issues.
A convention influences a set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted standards, social norms, or other criteria, often taking the form of a custom.. In physical sciences, numerical values (such as constants, quantities, or scales of measurement) are called conventional if they do not represent a measured property of nature, but originate in a convention, for example an average of many ...
Convention (political norm), uncodified legal or political tradition; Convention (meeting), meeting of a (usually large) group of individuals and/or companies in a certain field who share a common interest Fan convention, a gathering of fans of a particular media property or genre Anime convention, centered on Japanese anime and manga
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters § Proper names – guideline for proper names, e.g. place names and personal names; Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) – more on place names, including the use of alternate names, contemporary names and transliterations, with some advice potentially applicable to non-geographic names
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, late 2004. Wikimania 2006: Photo of some participants during the lunch break. Wikimania is an international conference of users of Wikipedia and other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, which has been held annually since 2005.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) gives the general principles of how Wikipedia deals with the representation of numbers and dates. This present naming conventions guideline concentrates on the aspect of how numbers and dates are represented in article titles, that is the names of the articles where the content is (as opposed to redirect pages that also allow non-standardized ...
This guideline documents an English Wikipedia naming convention. Editors should generally follow it, though exceptions may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus .
Wikipedia has many naming conventions relating to specific subject domains (as listed in the box at the top of this page). In rare cases, these recommend the use of titles that are not strictly the common name (as in the case of the conventions for medicine). This practice of using specialized names is often controversial, and should not be ...