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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 would need to know name ''and'' graduation year to link.
===use Use full name of a place names to be unambiguous===<div style="float:top"><font size="-2">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Be_precise_when_necessary ''Wikipedia origin'']</font></div>
Another common issue for Willipedia is that we have a lot of things named after people (namely, [[:Category:Buildings|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.
If you're feeling very helpful, create a [[#Disambiguation pages|disambiguation page]] at the name that forks to many related pages. The [[Spencer]] and [[Dodd]] pages are examples of these.