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Article titles are based on how reliable English-language sources refer to the article's subject. There is often more than one appropriate title for an article. In that case, editors choose the best title by consensus based on the considerations that this page explains. A good Wikipedia article title has the five following characteristics:
The use of modified letters (e.g. those with accents or other diacritics) in article titles is neither encouraged nor discouraged; when deciding between versions of a word that differ in the use or non-use of modified letters, follow the general usage in reliable sources that are written in the English language (including other encyclopedias and reference works).
Consistency in titles means that: titles for the same kind of subject should not differ in form or structure without good reason.Where multiple titles are available, and where titles are equally usable in terms of recognizability, naturalness, preciseness, and conciseness, then the title to be used should be consistent with titles used for similar or related topics in Wikipedia.
The core of what is presently a Wikipedia policy named WP:Article_titles (shortcut: WP:AT) developed organically over Wikipedia's early years (mostly as an essay then guideline name WP:Naming conventions), and was a jumble of points ranging from crucial to just good-but-optional. Many of the latter sort have since been moved to split-off ...
The concerned editor proposes that the article be renamed to Subject in the United States, and that we create a new article about Subject, or have no article at all. Another typical request is to move articles about body parts to Body part in humans , instead of adding information about non-human animals to the existing Body part .
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.
In all cases, default the article title to the form of the name that is used by the band themselves, and use "(band)" to disambiguate if necessary. If a band is officially known without a definite article, but the members typically refer to their group as "the (Name)" in everyday speech, then the definite article should be included in running ...
Each article or list is of high quality, including the referencing. With featured topics only: At least one half (50%) of the items are featured class (featured articles or featured lists), with a minimum of two featured items. All other articles are good articles. With good topics only: All items are at least featured lists or good articles.