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===Naming students and alums===
Even though it is convention in most Williams publications to include the class year whenever a student or alum is named, on Willipedia, the class year should usually not be part of the title of a page on a person (''ie'', "Joe Freshman" is preferred to "Joe Freshman '09"). This is for ease of linking: in this system, an editor who wishes to link to a person need only know his/her name. If class years were in titles, on one would need to know name ''and'' graduation year to link. You can still, of course, include the class year in your prose, e.g. "<nowiki>[[Joe Freshman]]</nowiki> '09".
===Use full names to be unambiguous===
Another common issue for Willipedia is that we have a lot of things named after people (namely, [[:Category:Building|buildings]]). This creates a need to resolve ambiguity about whether "Hopkins" is an article about [[Hopkins Hall]], [[Mark Hopkins House]], or [[Mark Hopkins]] the person.
The solution in most cases is to use the full name of something, even if it is rare in common parlance. So while it is typical to say, "I'm eating at Mission," the article on this it would have to be "[[Mission Dining Hall]]". Notice that all words in this titles title are capitalized, as it is the proper name of the place.
If you're feeling very helpful, create a [[#Disambiguation pages|disambiguation page]] at the common name that forks to many related pages. The [[Spencer]] and [[Dodd]] pages are examples of these.
