Help:Naming conventions

Forms

HIP wiki uses forms for the guided input of the structured and semi-structured data about:

• Films
• Agencies
• Projects of Agencies for the Films
• Assets or content created within the Projects
• Awards and their categories

The data you enter will be read by others:

• For consistency, please enter all data in form input boxes in Upper and Lower case.
• Please be sure the Agency, Film, Projects, Awards, Categories, Persons names are complete and precise.

Page Titles

The names of Films and Agencies will be used as page names. Therefore they should follow these guidelines:

• Do not include the following special characters in page titles (aka. Film and Agency names): # < > [ ] | { }
• Avoid using & +
• Do not begin names with a colon :
• The use of a slash / in the names of Films and Agencies is not recommended, this character is used to separate subpages.

A note about Projects

Projects are data objects on the intersection of a Film and an Agency. Please, note the automated Project page naming convention and make sure that the total number of characters in a title does not exceed 255:

Agency Name/Film Name (Year)

Other restrictions

• Avoid titles beginning with a namespace alias (Project:, Image:, etc. see Namespaces)
• Avoid titles beginning with a prefix that refers to another wiki project (see Interwiki)
• Avoid titles containing 3 or more consecutive tildes. (~~~)
• Avoid titles beginning with any non-standard capitalization of a namespace prefix, alias or interwiki/interlanguage prefix, or any of these with a space before or after the colon. For example, it is not possible for a title to begin such as: HELP:, HeLp:, Help :, Help:_
• Avoid titles consisting of only a namespace prefix, with nothing after the colon.