Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ice hockey)

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[edit] Summary

Convention: Ice hockey is an international sport and has players playing from all over the world. This proposed guideline is to ensure uniformity, consistency, and recognisability for article titles and spellings.

[edit] Guideline in a nutshell

Hockey article titles should use the most common spelling in English as described by reputable reference books and media outlets. In most cases this means the omission of diacritics and other characters not commonly found in English.

  • Hockey article titles should use the most common form of spelling found in English publications.
  • Hockey links going to hockey articles should use the most common spelling in English, situation appropriate, of course.
  • Hockey articles should show the native spelling of the subject in the first sentence (as per Wikipedia:Naming conventions#Use English words "Name your pages in English and place the native transliteration on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly used in English than the English form." After which, all other mentions of the subject should revert back to English spelling.
  • A redirect using the native spelling should be created.

[edit] Scope

This guideline is about standard letters (a-z/A-Z) with diacritics, existing in languages of which the native script is based on the Latin alphabet:

As a Wikipedia:Naming conventions guideline, this guideline is about article names, not about the use of alternate versions with or without diacritics in the body of the Wikipedia articles.

This guideline does not apply to redirect pages, which can (and should) use diacritics to ensure that all popular variations of a name's spelling, still redirect to the proper article.

[edit] Disambiguation

All articles should attempt to use the most common form in English, but due to shared names, this is not always possible.

[edit] Players

See also Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people)

In the event that a player shares the same name as another notable person, use one of the following options:

[edit] Teams

In the event that a team article shares the same name as another team from a different league or sport, use one of the following options:

Note: The most notable team from the most notable league should get preference over article title naming.

[edit] Rationale

Wikipedia is clear that the most common form in English be used (Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) for article titles. For most hockey players, this does include diacritics and other foreign characters. There have been many discussions on this topic. Some of the more notable are found here:

[edit] See also