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This guideline contains conventions on how to name Wikipedia articles about individual people. It should be read in conjunction with Wikipedia's general policy on article naming, Wikipedia:Article titles, and, for articles on living or recently deceased people, also in conjunction with the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons policy, which explicitly also applies to article titles.
The format is the same as for any entity reference: &name; where name is the case-sensitive name of the entity. The semicolon is required. Because numbers are harder for humans to remember than names, character entity references are most often written by humans, while numeric character references are most often produced by computer programs. [1]
Use the format Name (1950–present) for current partner and Name (1970–1999) for former partner(s). children: Typically the number of children (e.g., 3); only list names of independently notable or particularly relevant children. Names may be preceded by a number to show total children and avoid implying that named children are the only ...
Private Use Area (PUA) characters are in three ranges of code points (U+E000–U+F8FF in the BMP, and in planes 15 and 16). PUA characters should normally be avoided, but they are sometimes used when they are found in common fonts, especially when the character itself is the topic of discussion.
Usernames that resemble IP addresses (as these are expected to designate non-logged-in users), timestamps, or other names which would be confusing within the Wikipedia signature format. Usernames that appear similar to naming conventions used by community administrative processes, such as those starting with Vanished user (see Wikipedia ...
See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Fictional characters/Categories, a list of categories that fall under our project. As a word of warning, be careful of overcategorisation and from adding a category after adding one of its subcategories (e.g. if you have an article categorised under Category:Marvel Comics angels , it is automatically considered ...
It may not contain various control characters, unusual whitespace, or Private Use Area characters: U+0080–U+009F, U+00A0, U+2000–U+200F, U+2028–U+202F, U+3000, or U+E000–U+F8FF. It may not be an IP address, nor may it look like an IP address (for example, "564.348.992.800" is not a valid IP address, but since it looks like one, it is an ...
A common practice is to entitle list articles as List of ___ (for example List of Xs).If (as is often the case), the list has multiple columns and so is in layout table form, the name or title List of Xs is still preferable to Table of Xs or Comparison of Xs (though the latter may be appropriate for articles that are actual tables of data comparing numerous features, e.g. Comparison of Linux ...