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Willipedia:Naming conventions

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use full name of a place to be unambiguous
===use full name of a place to be unambiguous===
 Another common issue for Willipedia is that we have a lot of things named after people (namely, [[:exCategory: Dodd Dining Buildings|buildings]]). This creates a need to resolve ambiguity about whether "Hopkins" is an article about [[Hopkins Hall]], [[Mark Hopkins HallHouse]], or [[Mark Hopkins House (notice ]] 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 these words in these this titles are capitalized, as they are all it is the proper names)name of the place. :if If you're feeling very helpful, create a disambig [[#Disambiguation pages|disambiguation page ]] at the name that forks to many related pages. ie, "The [[Spencer]] and [[Dodd"]] pages are examples of these.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Be_precise_when_necessary
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