AoPS Wiki:Naming conventions

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The following page creates guidelines for the systematic names of articles.

Titles

Capitalization

The search engine is case-sensitive. Like in normal English usage, all proper nouns should be capitalized.

• Capitalize all theorems, lemmas, postulates, axioms, laws, formulas, etc.
• Nothing else but proper nouns should be capitalized.
• If in doubt, contact a sysop.

More discussion here

Nouns

Generally, nouns should be used. For example, bisection should be used instead of bisect.

Singular nouns

Plural nouns should be avoided. A convention for categories is undecided.

Contests

Main article: AoPS Wiki:Contest Problems Standards

For contest pages, the year should go before the contest name. A compilation of all of the problems should be located at YYYY Contest Problems. All of the solutions go to subpages at YYYY Contest Problems/Problem #. The answer key goes to YYYY Contest Answer Key.

Sections

Every non-trivial word in a section header should be capitalized without exception, like the title of a book.

Alphabetization

Pages can be alphabetized in categories. Mathematicians should have last name first, like [[Category:Mathematicians|Zeitz, Paul]]

See Also

• AoPS Wiki:Contest Problem Standards