Appropedia:Page naming

Page names in Appropedia should:

• Tell uninformed readers at a glance what the page is about (e.g. Deidre's vertical vegetable garden instead of "Daidre's project")
• Have only the first letter of the first word capitalized (e.g. Appropriate technology) except for:
  • Proper names (e.g. Rachel Carson)
  • Organization names (e.g. Fashion Revolution)
  • Publication titles (e.g. Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers)
• Be a complete name rather than an acronym (note that redirects can be created from the acronym) except where the acronym is better known (e.g. MIT)
• Avoid commas "," as much as possible, because some Appropedia templates rely on commas to separate values, so titles with commas can cause unexpected results.

Following are hints on naming different types of pages.

The name of the page should describe the specific subject area. The title should be, as far as possible:

• Brief
• Accurate
• Easy to understand
• Consistent with common usage

Examples: Energy or Transport.

• Organization name + Project type - e.g. AEF Greywater
• Project location + Project type - e.g. Occidental Greywater
• Your name + Project type - e.g. Aleiha's parabolic solar cooker

• Organization name - e.g. Potawot
• Organization name + Chapter name - e.g. EWB Australia

• Descriptive name - e.g. How to measure stream flow rate, How to avoid the heat island effect

• Full name of program - e.g. Parras summer program

• Your area name + supplies - e.g. Humboldt California supplies

• 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 - e.g. 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.

• Name of your thesis - e.g. Water management and culture in Indonesian cities

• Help:Moving a page - How to rename (move) a page

• Wikipedia:Article titles - Wikipedia page naming policy