Wikipedia:Naming conventions (country-specific topics)
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[edit] Guideline
In general, country-specific articles should be named using the form: "(item) of (country)".
- This will usually hold true in other geography-specific topics, such as for cities, continents, provinces, states, etc.
For country-specific categories, see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)
[edit] Examples
- History of Portugal (vs "Portuguese history")
- Category:Wars of Great Britain (vs "Great British Wars")
[edit] Caveats
- It is important to be able to differentiate when a topic is actually country-specific. Oftentimes what may look like a country adjective is really describing a set of people or a language. Notice that "Polish" may mean "From or related to Poland" or "referring to the Polish people or language." For example Polish language, Polish people, even Polish literature (since these articles most often deal with the literature of the set of people, not the country necessarily). By contrast, Culture of Poland, Politics of Poland and Economy of Poland are all describing the country itself.
- "In", "from", or another preposition may be substituted for "of" as appropriate.
[edit] Reasoning
There are a number of reasons why this method is preferable. See the talk page for details.
