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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.
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 ...
Names of genera are always italicized (and capitalized), even when not paired with a species name: Allosaurus, Falco, Anas. The entire binomial or trinomial scientific name is italicized, whether given in full or abbreviated: (Liriodendron tulipifera, N. v. piaropicola).
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
For a page on how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels, see Wikipedia:Tips; For advice on writing style and formatting in a bullet-point format, see Wikipedia:Styletips; For summaries of some Wikipedia protocols and conventions, see Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts; If you don't want to use wikitext markup, try Wikipedia:VisualEditor instead
Names of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, stars, constellations, and galaxies are proper names, and therefore capitalized (The planet Mars is in the constellation Gemini, near the star Pollux). The first letter of every word in such a name is capitalized (Alpha Centauri and not Alpha centauri; Milky Way, not Milky way).
Heading names: Editors may use any reasonable section and subsection names that they choose. [ k ] The most frequent choice is "References". Other options, in diminishing order of popularity, are "Notes", "Footnotes" or "Works cited", although these are more often used to distinguish between multiple end-matter sections or subsections.
In some cases (such as names which should begin with a lowercase letter, like eBay), a template can be added to the article to cause the title header to be displayed as desired. In other cases (such as names containing restricted characters) it is necessary to adopt and display a different title.