Wikipedia:Naming conventions (architecture)
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- Buildings
- Common name, plus the City / country where necessary. Examples:
- Eiffeltower (only one)
- Watts Towers (more than one)
- St Mary Aldermary, St Mary Woolnoth (many St Mary churches) - additions without comma or brackets (NOT: "St Mary, Aldermary" AND NOT: "St Mary (Aldermary)")
- compare: wikipedia:Naming conventions (Western clergy)#Buildings named after people (outdated? maybe time to separate that paragraph from a NC guideline that's essentially on people and not on buildings, and start a new NC on buildings - and landmarks? - in general - which maybe could be rather related to the places NC's, see wikipedia:naming conventions#Places for a few links).
- compare: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions/archive6#Mount, Mt., Mt and Saint, St., St and Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (names and titles)/Archive_9#"Saint" / inconsistent use of "St" and "St."- discusses tangentially whether to use "St." or "St" in names of buildings (for persons not abbreviated: "Saint"; for places there is some prior practice to use "St." for places in the US, "St" for places in the UK, and mostly without abbreviation if there's no established practice in the country of origin, e.g. Saint Petersburg in Russia; St. Petersburg, Florida for the US city, St Albans in the UK - would that work for buildings too?).
- Architects
- Le Corbusier, not "Corbusier, Le" nor "Charles Edouard Jeanneret(-Gris))", compare:
- Category:Architects
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) (PS: Le Corbusier is used as an example on that page, as are Antoni Gaudí and Josep Puig i Cadafalch... - Architects maybe need no separate NC from the "people" NC, while there are probably no special rules that can be defined for "architects": e.g. "artist's name" occurs in e.g. "artist's name" occurs in many other professions, and is already covered by the "people" NC guideline).
