FamilySearch Wiki:Naming Conventions for Geographic Names - Revision history

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	== Country sub-divisions: as in the FHL Catalog ==		== Country sub-divisions: as in the FHL Catalog ==

−	For places smaller than a country use the name as it would appear if it were in the [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitysearch&columns=*,0,0 Place Search] of the Family History Library Catalog. However, normally write the name in order from smallest to largest jurisdiction, for example, ''Chicago, Cook, Illinois''.	+	For places smaller than a country use the name as it would appear if it were in the http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitysearch&columns=*,0,0 Place Search
		+	{{dead link}} of the Family History Library Catalog. However, normally write the name in order from smallest to largest jurisdiction, for example, ''Chicago, Cook, Illinois''.

−	Also, use diacritics as they would appear in the [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitysearch&columns=*,0,0 Place Search] of the Family History Library Catalog, for example, ''Höfgen (AH. Meißen), Sachsen, Germany''.	+	Also, use diacritics as they would appear in the http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitysearch&columns=*,0,0 Place Search
		+	{{dead link}} of the Family History Library Catalog, for example, ''Höfgen (AH. Meißen), Sachsen, Germany''.

	=== Administrative sub-divisions ===		=== Administrative sub-divisions ===

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	== Disambiguation ==		== Disambiguation ==
−	It is often the case that the same geographic place-name will apply to more than one place, or to a place and to other things of interest to genealogists such as a tribe or language; in either case disambiguation will be necessary. See [[~~Policy~~:Disambiguation]].	+	It is often the case that the same geographic place-name will apply to more than one place, or to a place and to other things of interest to genealogists such as a tribe or language; in either case disambiguation will be necessary. See [[FamilySearch Wiki:Disambiguation]].

	== See also ==		== See also ==
−	* [[~~Policy~~:Page or article naming]]	+	* [[FamilySearch Wiki:Page or article naming]]
	* [[Help:Naming conventions]]		* [[Help:Naming conventions]]

	[[Category:Style guideline proposals\|{{PAGENAME}}]]		[[Category:Style guideline proposals\|{{PAGENAME}}]]

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−	~~Please see the discussion~~ page for the ~~emerging debate~~ on ~~this issue~~. ~~Once consensus is reached on~~ the ~~discussion page~~, a ~~Manual of Style guideline will~~ be ~~posted here~~.	+	{{MOS Proposal}}
		+	This page describes proposed conventions for determining the names of Research Wiki articles on places. Our naming policy provides that article names should be chosen for the general reader, not for specialists. By following modern English usage, we also avoid arguments about what a place ''ought'' to be called, instead asking the less contentious question, what it ''is'' called.

−	== ~~Related pages~~ ==	+	== Country names in English ==

−	[[~~FamilySearch~~ Wiki:~~Manual~~ of ~~Style~~\|~~Manual~~ of ~~Style~~]]	+	Use the form of a current country's name as it appears in the CIA [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ ''World Factbook''].
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		+	When a ''widely accepted English name'', exists for a former country or empire, we should use it. For example, [[New Spain\|New Spain]] rather than ''Virreinato de Nueva España'', [[Ottoman Empire\|Ottoman Empire]] rather than دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه or ''Osmanlı İmparatorluğu''.
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		+	== Browse by Country page, and Category:Countries ==
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		+	Use the CIA [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ ''World Factbook''] to determine which nations are listed on the [[Browse by Country\|Browse by Country]] Wiki page, and in the [[:Category:Countries]]. Only continuously inhabited places with indigenous populations in the ''World Factbook'' are eligible.
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		+	Countries which are not listed in the ''World Factbook'' should not appear on the ''Browse by Country'' page, or in the ''Category:Countries.'' However, they may be appropriate as part of another country's page/category, or on the [[List of extinct states\|List of extinct states]] page, or in the [[:Category:Former Countries\|Category:Former Countries]].
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		+	== Country sub-divisions: as in the FHL Catalog ==
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		+	For places smaller than a country use the name as it would appear if it were in the [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitysearch&columns=*,0,0 Place Search] of the Family History Library Catalog. However, normally write the name in order from smallest to largest jurisdiction, for example, ''Chicago, Cook, Illinois''.
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		+	Also, use diacritics as they would appear in the [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitysearch&columns=*,0,0 Place Search] of the Family History Library Catalog, for example, ''Höfgen (AH. Meißen), Sachsen, Germany''.
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		+	=== Administrative sub-divisions ===
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		+	Names of '''''classes''''' of places do what English does. In particular, when dealing with administrative subdivisions, we write of ''United States counties'' and '''''Cook County, Illinois''''', or of ''Russian oblasts'' and the '''''Moscow Oblast''''', but of Chinese and Roman provinces, not ''sheng'' or ''provinciae''.
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		+	Also, use '''''Jackson Township, Hamilton, Indiana''''', but use '''''Cicero, Hamilton, Indiana''''' for an incorporated municipality.
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		+	== Disambiguation ==
		+	It is often the case that the same geographic place-name will apply to more than one place, or to a place and to other things of interest to genealogists such as a tribe or language; in either case disambiguation will be necessary. See [[Policy:Disambiguation]].
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		+	== See also ==
		+	* [[Policy:Page or article naming]]
		+	* [[Help:Naming conventions]]

	[[Category:Style guideline proposals\|{{PAGENAME}}]]		[[Category:Style guideline proposals\|{{PAGENAME}}]]

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	[[FamilySearch Wiki:Manual of Style\|Manual of Style]]		[[FamilySearch Wiki:Manual of Style\|Manual of Style]]
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		+	[[Category:Style guideline proposals\|{{PAGENAME}}]]

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New page: Please see the discussion page for the emerging debate on this issue. Once consensus is reached on the discussion page, a Manual of Style guideline will be posted here. == Related pages =...

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Please see the discussion page for the emerging debate on this issue. Once consensus is reached on the discussion page, a Manual of Style guideline will be posted here.

== Related pages ==

[[FamilySearch Wiki:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]]