 | This is an explanatory essay about the Wikipedia:Article titles policy and the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (events) guideline. This page provides additional information about concepts in the page(s) it supplements. This page is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. |
Article titles for events such as assaults, shootings, stabbings, deaths, suicides, executions, killings and murders are very controversial. Requested move discussions on such articles have led to inconsistent results. COMMONNAME may prove to be unhelpful, especially for more recent events, where sources may not have settled on a single commonly-used name for the event. This explanatory supplement aims to provide a framework for establishing a CONSISTENT naming scheme that ensures NPOV (neutral point of view), protects the subjects of BLP (biographies of living persons) and avoids the pitfalls of systemic bias, for articles where a commonly recognisable name is not apparent. This explanatory supplement is not intended to overrule any policy or guideline.