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This should only be used for Filipinos born after 1900, but who normally prefer to render their name using Spanish naming order. {{ Philippine name |de la Cruz|ph=natural}} → In this Philippine name for natural children , there is no middle name nor paternal family name , but the surname or maternal family name is de la Cruz .
The Filipino given name Dranreb was invented by reversing the spelling of the English name Bernard, and someone calling himself Nosrac bears the legal name Carson. Joseph Ejército Estrada , the 13th president of the Philippines , began as a movie actor and received his nickname Erap as an adult; it comes from Pare spelled backwards (from ...
As a general rule, article titles of municipalities follow the [[municipality-name]] format, without the name of the province, unless a disambiguation is needed or is necessary. In that case, article titles follow the [[municipality-name, Province]] format. Thus: Guiuan and Shariff Aguak but Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay and Santa Praxedes, Cagayan.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles (MOS:JP) Mostly issues of romanization and plural, but also terminology, addresses and related matters; Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Philippines-related articles (MOS:PHIL) Choice of ethnonym, use of diacritics, disambiguation, name of subdivisions; Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Poland-related articles ...
Wikipedia article titles and section headings use sentence case, not title case; see Wikipedia:Article titles and § Section headings. For capitalization of list items, see § Bulleted and numbered lists. Other points concerning capitalization are summarized below. Full information can be found at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters.
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 present name of the Philippines was bestowed by the Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos [1] [2] or one of his captains Bernardo de la Torre [3] [4] in 1543, during an expedition intended to establish greater Spanish control at the western end of the division of the world established between Spain and Portugal by the treaties of Tordesillas and Zaragoza.
Articles titled in the "City, State" format should also have a stand-alone redirect pointing to the full-name article. In many cases, such as for Paris, Texas, that will be impossible, because the base name may have other uses, in which case a DAB entry or hatnote should be used.