Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics/Style

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This page is part of the Manual of Style, and is considered a guideline for Wikipedia. The consensus of many editors formed the conventions described here, and Wikipedia articles should heed these guidelines. Before making any major changes to these guidelines, please use the discussion page to ensure that your changes reflect consensus.

The following is a style guide for those who edit Numismatic-related articles under Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics. Please remember, this is simply a guide, and may change depending on Wikipolicy or participant consensus. For other guidelines, please

See also: Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia#Manual of Style

Contents 1 Article titles 1.1 Articles about a specific country's currency 1.2 Articles, categories, galleries about a country's coins and banknotes 2 First paragraph 3 Article contents 3.1 General rule 3.2 Coin articles 3.3 Currency articles 4 Images 4.1 Fair Use Picture Rationale 5 Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia

[edit] Article titles

Competing/overlapping proposals: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Currency and/or Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics/Style#Article titles.

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• An article should be titled according to the key subject of the article.
  • Lists should be named "List of...x". For example, List of currencies.
• If possible, make the title the subject of the first sentence of the article (as opposed to putting it in the predicate). In any case, the title should appear as early as possible in the article — preferably in the first sentence.
• The first time the title is mentioned in the article, put it in bold using three apostrophes. Here is an example: '''article title''' produces article title. You should not put links in the title.
• Do not capitalize second and subsequent words unless the title is a proper noun (such as a name) or is otherwise almost always capitalized (for example: Canadian "Loonie", but British pound sterling). This especially applies to denominations, which are not proper nouns, (e.g., euro, kwacha, peso, yen).
• In general only create page titles that are in the singular (Greek drachma not Greek drachmas).
• Except in titles of works or in official names, avoid the definite ("the") and indefinite ("a"/"an") articles at the beginning of a page name. This applies even if the subject of the page is usually preceded by the definite article "the" in speech or writing: Thus, for example, Denarius is preferred over The Denarius.

[edit] Articles about a specific country's currency

• If the currency is listed at ISO 4217, use the name given there. However, do not capitalize the denomination. It has not yet been decided if there should be some exceptions to this rule, or if the country name should be added in cases where ISO 4217 does not list it. Feel free to discuss this on the talk page. Note that two exceptions are already in use, Aruban florin and Lebanese livre.
• If the currency is not listed at the ISO 4217 page, use the standard name of <Adjectival country name> <denomination> (e.g., French franc, not Franc or Franc (currency)). To determine the adjectival form, please use a dictionary, like http://www.m-w.com or http://www.dictionary.com or others. If there is no adjectival form listed, use the shortened form of the country name (e.g., Rhodesian pound, but Rhodesia and Nyasaland pound). An exception to this is the United States whose official adjectival form is "American" which is ambiguous when it comes to currency, and is also not NPOV. It has been recommended that the CIA World Factbook be used for adjectival forms, but this would only work for current currencies, which are covered by ISO 4217.
  • Use English names for the country in the title, if possible (e.g., German mark, not Deutsche mark), though in the article itself, you can use the domestic name if it is in common use in English. A redirect from Deutsche mark is appropriate in this situation.
  • Use the local name for the denomination even if there is an English translation (e.g., Czech koruna, not Czech crown). If the currency name contains non-ASCII characters, use them (e.g., Polish złoty). Be sure to include a redirect from the ASCII version (e.g., Polish zloty)
    • Use local grammar for plural form (i.e., 1000 yen, not 1000 yens)
    • Known exception includes
      • All different rubles, even though it is spelled рубль, рубель, and рубл in Russian, Belarusian, and Tajik. And no transliteration standards will result in "ruble".
      • Finnish mark (spelled markka in Finnish)
      • Swiss franc (spelled Frank in German, spoken by 64% of Swiss)
      • Plural Yugoslavian dinar is spelled dinars for the duration when Yugoslavia was multi-lingual
• If there is only one country that has used the denomination (you can check at List of currencies, please create a redirect from the denomination, (e.g., kwanza). If multiple countries have used it, please create an article from the denomination with links to all of them, and potentially information about the denomination itself (e.g., franc).
• If disambiguation is needed (e.g., the South Korean won, which was used before and after the South Korean hwan), use a descriptive word (e.g., South Korean old won and South Korean won. These do not necessarily have to be on separate pages but can be referred to consistently with these names). If you can determine common use for these desciptive words, use that. If you are not sure, you can check Global Financial Data which seems to use relatively standard descriptors (although their naming conventions differ from ours in other ways).

[edit] Articles, categories, galleries about a country's coins and banknotes

• Use Currencies of Somewhere for an article or category about the coins and paper money from a given country or region (e.g., Category:Currencies of the Eurozone and Category:Currencies of Scotland, not Category:Eurozone currencies or Category:Euro or Category:Scottish currencies or Category:Currency of Scotland).

	Coin	Banknote
Article	Coins of the SomeCurrency, where SomeCurrency is the proper article title mentioned above. (e.g. Coins of the Hungarian pengő, not Coins of Hungary, Hungarian coins, or Hungarian coinage)	Banknotes of the SomeCurrency, where SomeCurrency is the proper article title mentioned above. (e.g. Banknotes of the Swiss franc). However, replace "banknote" with "paper money" when the word "banknote" cannot properly include everything described in the article. Examples include Paper money of the Zimbabwean dollar.
Gallery	Gallery of XYZian coins	Gallery of XYZian banknotes

Important to remember: A title should be descriptive of the page. This helps people to know what the article is about before reading it.

[edit] First paragraph

In every article there should be a leading paragraph where gives a brief description of what the subject of the article is, or what the article is about, before elaborating.

1. The first mention of the subject of the article should be in bold, and italicised thereafter.
2. The first sentence should include the subject of the article and describe what the article is in a bare-bones way so a user can easily understand whether they have found the right article or not.
3. Articles for any Numismatic title usually include the name of the coin, bold and italicised, and a description, as well as the optional coin template.
   1. A typical example of this is:
      United States dollar coin.
4. The first paragraph does not include any specific details.
5. Use {{redirect}} or {{for2}} when appropriate

[edit] Article contents

[edit] General rule

1. Try to divide the article into various subsections (e.g., History, Minting, etc.)
2. A wikilink only needs to appear in the article once - at the first mention. If denarius is linked early on, it does not need to be linked anywhere else in the article.
   1. The only exception to this rule is when See also: is used, or Main article: where the article should be linked also.
3. Articles should include any possible information about the coin or subject which could be considered useful. Remember, it may not seem useful to you, but others might find it comes in handy.
4. Remember, categories are inherited: an article placed in Category:Coins of India does not also need to be placed in Category:Coins.

[edit] Coin articles

1. Designers names, mint names or other names should not be italicised unless to highlight it.
2. Coins sets or series should be in "double quotes".
3. Articles should be categorized in the correct subcategory of Category:Coins.
4. Include {{Infobox Coin}}

[edit] Currency articles

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics/Style/Currency article

[edit] Images

1. It is encouraged to upload images to Commons, as the images can be use on wikipedias of all languages. On commons, tag the images with subcategories of commons:Category:Money by country.
2. However, commons has more restricted rules about copyright. If you resort to uploading to English wikipedia, you should place it in Category:Currency images, unless the image is tagged with {{money}}, which would automatically place the image in that category.

[edit] Fair Use Picture Rationale

Pictures that are using fair use tags or a fair use related tag (i.e., coins or paper money), should have an added blurb explaining why the picture is fair use. This should comply with the following wikipedia policy.

The above is merely a guideline. Should consensus change, please change the article above. Also, feel free to edit at any time to include any standard we should include when editing articles. Please also use the talk page to discuss this.

Note: There are maybe a few things wrong with this. If there are, please feel free to fix them, and leave a note of what you added, deleted or modified on the talk page.

[edit] Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia

Therefore, articles should be encyclopaedic.