Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2016-02/Entry name 3

The name of the entry is the term, phrase, symbol, morpheme or other lexical unit being defined.

For languages with two cases of script, the entry name usually begins with a lowercase letter. For example, use work for the English noun and verb, not "Work". Words and phrases which begin with a capital letter in running text are exceptions. Typical examples include proper nouns (Paris, Neptune), German nouns (Brot, Straße), and many abbreviations (PC, DIY). Compare: you can't judge a book by its cover and Rome wasn't built in a day. If someone tries accessing the entry with incorrect capitalization, the software will try to redirect to the correct page automatically.

Omit an initial article unless it makes a difference in the meaning. E.g., cat's pajamas instead of the cat's pajamas. For multi-word entries, prefer the generic personal pronoun for the main entry. (one, oneself, someone, one's, etc.) Common forms with other pronouns are usually redirected to the main form. For example, fall over oneself would be the main entry and these are some entries that would redirect to it: fall over himself, fell over himself, falling over himself, fall over herself, fall over themselves, etc. Use the infinitive form of the verb (but without to) for the principal verb of a verbal phrase, for example: rain cats and dogs. In English, sometimes the lemma should include a specific personal pronoun. For example, the proverb you can't fight City Hall would be the lemma, not one can't fight City Hall. For prefixes, suffixes and other morphemes in most languages, place the character "-" where it links with other words: pre-, -ation, -a-, etc.

When multiple capitalizations, punctuation, diacritics, ligatures, scripts and combinations with numbers and other symbols exist, such as pan (as in "frying pan"), Pan (the Greek god), pan- (meaning "all-") and パン (pan) (Japanese for "bread"), use the template {{also}} at the top of the page to cross-link between them. When there are too many variations, place them in a separate appendix page, in this case Appendix:Variations of "pan".

Use the "Alternative forms" header for variations of the same word kept in multiple pages, including:

• regional variations: color, colour; center, centre
• historical variations: anæmia, anaemia; coördinate, coordinate
• hyphenization/compounds: tea cup, tea-cup, teacup
• style variation: naiveté, naïveté
• some misspellings: see WT:CFI#Spellings
• uncertain capitalization: laser, LASER
• different scripts: реч, reč (Serbo-Croatian for word) (sometimes, this is located in the headword line)

Some page titles can't be created because of restrictions in the software, usually because they contain certain symbols such as # or |, or are too long. The full list of those entries is at Appendix:Unsupported titles. They are named using the descriptive format "Unsupported titles/Number sign", while using JavaScript to show the correct title like a normal entry.

Matched-pairs, such as brackets and quotation marks, can be defined together as single entries. The entries are named with a space between the left and right characters. Examples: ( ), , “ ”, ‘ ’, " ", „ ”, « », ⌊ ⌋, ¡ ! and ¿ ?.

References

Idiomatic phrases

Many phrases take several forms. It is not necessary to include every conceivable variant. When present, minor variants should simply redirect to the main entry. For the main entry, prefer the most generic form, based on the following principles:

Pronouns (subsection)

Prefer the generic personal pronoun, one or one’s. Thus, feel one’s oats is preferable to feel his oats. Use of other personal pronouns, especially in the singular, should be avoided except where they are essential to the meaning.

Articles (subsection)

Omit an initial article unless it makes a difference in the meaning. E.g., cat’s pajamas instead of the cat’s pajamas.

Verbs (subsection)

Use the infinitive form of the verb (but without “to”) for the principal verb of a verbal phrase. Thus for the saying It’s raining cats and dogs, or It was raining cats and dogs, or I think it’s going to rain cats and dogs any minute now, or It’s rained cats and dogs for the last week solid the entry should be (and is) under rain cats and dogs. The other variants are derived by the usual rules of grammar (including the use of it with weather terms and other impersonal verbs).

Proverbs (subsection)

A proverb entry's title begins with a lowercase letter, whether it is a full sentence or not. The first word may still be capitalized on its own:

• you can't judge a book by its cover
• Rome wasn't built in a day