Clairvoyant Entertainment:Naming Policy

The **Naming Policy** is a basic guideline and the uniform set of rules used when naming articles in order to keep the Clairvoyant Entertainment Wiki organized due to its large amount of articles and images.

This policy attempts to cover the vast majority of situations, though exceptions may arise. As with every other policy, following it is not optional since often unseen aspects of the site's inner workings depend heavily on consistency.

If any special circumstances arise within the franchise in the future and are not explicitly covered within these current conventions, we will review them and we will either establish a new, relevant convention or direct them to the existing convention that applies to the circumstances.

## General Conventions

### Page Names

* **Page names always begin with a capital letter** - No matter what the circumstance or word that may start the article title. (This is a software requirement.)
* **Spaces in the title of your page** - If you are creating a page with more than one word in the title, using an underscore between the words is the same as a space. (This is a software requirement.) (e.g. Clairvoyant\_Entertainment = Clairvoyant Entertainment)

* **Prepositions, conjunctions and articles should not be capitalized in a page name unless they are the first word (see above). This usually includes, but is not limited to, the following words:**

* **Capitalize EVERY word in the title (except as above)** - The convention prevents the confusion of whether certain words should be capitalized or not. (e.g. Clearance Level, not Clearance level)

* **Do not use a pound symbol (#) in page names** - The # symbol is reserved in html code to signify links to a specific area of a page. For more information on this subject, please refer to our help file on how to edit. (This is a technological restriction.)

* **Do not begin a top-level page name with a slash (/ or \)** - Using the / symbol at the beginning of a page name can cause unexpected behavior. (This is a software requirement.) Using a slash inside a page name is acceptable. If a page called 'foo' already exists, you can use a forward slash to create sub-pages of 'foo'. (e.g. 'foo/bar') In this case, the forward slash symbol (/) is reserved in our software code to signify a separation between sub-pages. If 'foo' does not yet exist, the page will be called 'foo/bar' and no sub-page will be created.

* **Avoid using a period (aka full-stop) (.) at the end of a page name** - In certain cases having a period at the end of your page name can cause some very unexpected and unwanted results. This is not a requirement as this only occurs when the page is viewed with certain web-browsers.

## Articles

### Characters

* Character articles are perhaps the most notable in-universe articles of the whole Clairvoyant Entertainment Wiki. In order to maximize that notability and improve awareness through internal and external search engines, a **codename** is the preferred way for the name of an article.
* **Character Entries** - Character entries should be listed by their main codename if it is used for the character either as a codename (e.g. Iron Man) or used as an alias for the character within the Clairvoyant Entertainment (e.g. Spider-Man), in case he is the latest or current user of the codename. This includes the official credits for a movie or TV episode.
* If the codename is not used, or the character does not have a codename, his real name should be the name of the article. Other casual aliases or familiar names should never be the name for an article unless there is no other option.
	+ If codename is given:
		- Codename should be written using the general naming conventions.
		- Codenames should never begin with ***The*** (e.g. Punisher, not **The Punisher**; Collector, not **The Collector**)
		- Latest (current) codename is better when it's been equally used through the franchise (e.g. War Machine, not Iron Patriot)
		- Any titles that appear within the proper codename will be written completely. (e.g. *Doctor, Mister, Captain*, instead of *Dr., Mr., Cptn.*)
		- The character will not be named using his codename in case it has been explicitly discarded or replaced by a new codename (e.g. Iron Patriot discarded in favor of using War Machine again), the codename has been given to another person (e.g. Hank Pym handling the Ant-Man's mantle to Scott Lang), or the alternate persona associated with the codename has been discarded by the character.
	+ If codename is not given, but real name is given:
	+ If codename and real name are not given:
		- Name consists of the most well-known alias given in dialogue.
* **Multiple Articles of the same name**
	+ Articles receive a parenthesis to specify the difference between two or more articles with the same name, usually referring to their job or affiliation. (e.g. *Gary (Cameraman), Gary (Supervisor).*)
	+ **Alternate versions of established characters** - Alternate versions of established characters are named as sub-pages of the main version of the character, adding the chosen name of the reality they hail from, or the nature of their alternativeness, as a differentiative. (e.g. *Doctor Strange/Illuminati Assembled* as counterpart to *Doctor Strange.*)
		- If an alternate version of an established character is given a codename unique to said version, that codename is used following the general rules for naming character articles, while the name chosen according to the rule for alternates characters is used as a redirect.
		- If an alternate version of an established character is given a codename that usually belongs to another character from the main reality, the article is named according to the rule for alternate characters nevertheless, and the differences are highlighted through the "See Also" sections on both character hubs.
		- *Exceptions*: Exceptionally, some of these alternate characters can be named without following the system if, and only if, they are given a very unique designation to differentiate them that, while not technically a codename, it is both widespread and unique enough to differentiate the characters.