Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (numbers and dates)/Archive 02

message: The recommended format for separate articles on events that recur at regular intervals is as follows:<Name of event> ()Where:
*<Name of event> is the existing article title (non-redirect) that describes the event;
* is used only as a disambiguator, giving no more detail than is needed for disambiguation.
Example: Summer Olympics
* The article is at Summer Olympic Games (and not at "Summer Olympics" or "Olympic games" or "Summer olympics", etc...)
* The year suffises as time indicator, the month in which the Olympics were held is superfluous information, not retained in the article title;
* Formats like "Xth olympiad", etc. are not witheld to do the disambiguation of the article titles (though such formats may be used for redirect pages)
* So, for instance: Summer Olympic Games (1920) for the VII Olympiad, held in Antwerp.
Example: Champions league football competition
* The article is at UEFA Champions League
* A season is played starting in one year, and ending the next: time indication comprises two years
* Thus, for instance, UEFA Champions League (2005-2006) (note that each year is written in full, separated by a dash)
For events that recur at non-regular intervals, for instance Ecumenical councils, the articles on the individual events usually avoid a date indication, but are numbered/characterised otherwise (e.g. place of event, combined with numerical), for instance: Fourth Council of the Lateran; First Council of Lyons; Second Council of Lyons; Council of Vienne - similarly for Crusades: First Crusade, Second Crusade, etc... Note, however, that exceptions to the rule of avoiding dates are applied according to established practice, for instance: Crusade of 1101 (minor crusade, not numbered, and generally indicated by the year it occured).
Note that for numbering usually a text version of the numbers is used for these types of events, or (exceptionally) Roman numerals, if that is the most established practice (e.g. World War I, World War II). 
If a time indicator is used in the title of an article on an event that doesn't recur at regular intervals (or didn't recur at all) there's no "standard format" for the representation of the time indicator, so there is for instance: Crisis of the Third Century; German Crusade, 1096 (one of the developments of the First Crusade); May 1968, etc... The format of the date depends, in these cases, from established practice in history books and the like. In general, however, abbreviations for years or months are avoided (e.g., May '68 → May 1968); for centuries numerals are given in text, capitalised (e.g., Crisis of the 3rd century → Crisis of the Third Century)
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PS - Maybe this guideline proposal ought to be renamed to wikipedia:naming conventions (numbers and dates) or wikipedia:naming conventions (dates and numbers), and expanded to cover this whole topic (so that it becomes the "article naming" counterpart of Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). --Francis Schonken 11:52, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Started that, see Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (numbers and dates) --Francis Schonken 14:22, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Recurring events

message: This has been mentioned on this page and wikipedia:current surveys before. In the mean while several suggestions were incorporated, and others answered at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (numbers and dates).
So, proposing the updated Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates), to be accepted as guideline  in a week or so - unless there are still fundamental alterations required.
Note that this guideline proposal absorbs wikipedia:naming conventions (years in titles) (which would become a redirect). Also this is about the last wikipedia:naming conventions topic that doesn't have a "naming conventions" guideline yet, separate from the more general MoS, which doesn't discuss many "page naming" specifics. --Francis Schonken 21:35, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  re-proposing [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates)]]