Category:Surname disambiguation templates

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This category is a "template category". It is used to categorise pages which are in the template namespace. The category is part of the Wikipedia project infrastructure and should not be used to categorise pages belonging to other namespaces, in particular project main namespace pages  such as articles. For this namespace Category:Wikipedia templates is the top (root level) template category. Description This is a category for templates that help disambiguate family names. These include both page-top inline notes about name order and the like, as well as tables of various spellings and transliterations.

How to add a template to this category  To add a template to this category, use the following code at the end of the template: <noinclude> [[Category:Surname disambiguation templates|{{PAGENAME}}]] </noinclude> If you add this code at the end of the template, please make sure that the opening <noinclude> starts on the same line as the last char of the template code. Experience confirmed by experiments revealed that some templates became seriously defunct when that rule was violated.

This category is for templates used at the top of biographical articles to disambiguate or clarify family names. The use cases generally fall into five types:

1. Family names that come before given names, as is common throughout much of Asia (as in "Fu Che-wei")
2. Surnames that do not use entirely plain English or Western European characters, including names with accent marks in them, but are often approximately transliterated to use the 26-letter English alphabet (as in "Bogdan Wołkowski", often imprecisely transliterated "Wolkowski")
3. Surnames that use some completely different character set than Western European (e.g. Cyrillic or Chinese), transliterated into Western European (i.e. with diacritics) or the unadorned 26-letter English alphabet (as in "Пу́тин", transliterated "Putin"). Such templates should not be used in this case if the non-Western representation of the whole name is known, since this should be given in the article immediately after the transliterated name. However if the transliteration is accented Western European and not plain English characters, a template of this sort may be used to distinguish them from each other. (For example, Chinese uses diacritics in some styles of transliteration, but not others.)
4. Multi-part surnames that can be mistaken for a separate middle name and surname by readers unfamiliar with such names (as in "Johann von Burgen")
5. Single-part surnames that can be mistaken for multi-part if juxtaposed with a middle name that is identical to parts of multi-part surnames from other parts of the world (as in "Lee Van Corteza")