Help:Page naming

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1 General Guidelines
2 Specific Guidelines
3 See also

[edit] General Guidelines

Page names in Appropedia should:

have only the first letter of the first word capitalized, e.g. Appropriate technology, unless it is:
- a proper name,
- the name of an organization,
- the title of a publication.
be a complete name rather than an acronym, except where:
- the acronym is better known,
- the acronym is part of a longer article name - in which case the full meaning should be made clear in the beginning of the page.
be a unique name,
use very few, or better yet, no symbols - especially ampersands (&).

[edit] Specific Guidelines

Following are hints on naming different types of pages

[edit] Project

Organization name_Project type - Example: AEF Greywater
Project location_Project type - Example: Occidental Greywater
Your name_Project type - Example: Aleiha's parabolic solar cooker (although without the apostraphe may be better).

[edit] Organization

Full organization name - Example:Potawot

[edit] How to

Detailed name - Example: Moonbased homemade herbal tinctures

[edit] Program

Full name of program, Example: Parras summer program

[edit] Supplies

Yourareaname_supplies - Example:Humboldt CA Supplies (although Humboldt California supplies would be better)

[edit] Engineers Without Borders

EWB NameOfChapter - Example: EWB Australia

[edit] Coordination

Name of organization, program, project or location where coordination is taking place - hoped for final product name.
For global coordinations, just use the hoped for final product name, Example: Low cost computer guide

This is for resources that would be placed under a topic. These pages are almost always under another category as well. Please peruse the other categories, to see if there is one that can direct your naming better.