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The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The purpose of this RfC is to gauge whether enough consensus exists to designate these road naming conventions as an official guideline. These have so been far discussed at the Australian Roads Wikiproject and are built upon the pre-existing informal consensus created by most existing road names in Australia. The aim of the guidelines are to help assist editors in forming a consistent approach to roadway naming. The US Roads Wikiproject has a similar set of guidelines available at WP:USSH. We require a different scheme due to regional differences in the importance of road naming and route markers (also known as shielding). -- 11:44, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
I will shortly be contacting WP:AURD, WP:HWY, WP:RFC , and WP:AT via their talk pages; as well as posting on both WP:VPP and WP:VPR. -- Nbound ( talk) 11:44, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
Could you add where the appropriate "government gazette(s)" can be found? Thanks. AfricaTanz ( talk) 12:53, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
What is with the small type? Non-normative bits? It seems hard to read, so it should be brought up to normal size and perhaps distinguished in a different way.
Also, the second bullet point in small type, relating to common names sometimes being allowed, could do with an example: such as, in Victoria, Airport Drive and Warrigal Road have official government names (Airport Connection Road and Warrigal Highway) that are literally never used, not even on signage. — E This, that and the other (talk) 07:23, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
"For an article title, use a commonly recognizable name. The preferred name is usually the most prevalent name used in reliable English-language sources. This preferred name may or may not be an official, scientific, birth, original, or trademarked name.
In determining the prevalence of a name, consider the usage in the sources referenced in the article, and you may also consider other reliable sources. Also consider the choice made by other encyclopedias.
The most prevalent name used may be discounted in favor of another of significant but lesser prevalence, due to problems such as: ambiguity, inaccuracy, non-neutrality, vulgarity or pedantry."
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The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The purpose of this RfC is to gauge whether enough consensus exists to designate these road naming conventions as an official guideline. These have so been far discussed at the Australian Roads Wikiproject and are built upon the pre-existing informal consensus created by most existing road names in Australia. The aim of the guidelines are to help assist editors in forming a consistent approach to roadway naming. The US Roads Wikiproject has a similar set of guidelines available at WP:USSH. We require a different scheme due to regional differences in the importance of road naming and route markers (also known as shielding). -- 11:44, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
I will shortly be contacting WP:AURD, WP:HWY, WP:RFC , and WP:AT via their talk pages; as well as posting on both WP:VPP and WP:VPR. -- Nbound ( talk) 11:44, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
Could you add where the appropriate "government gazette(s)" can be found? Thanks. AfricaTanz ( talk) 12:53, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
What is with the small type? Non-normative bits? It seems hard to read, so it should be brought up to normal size and perhaps distinguished in a different way.
Also, the second bullet point in small type, relating to common names sometimes being allowed, could do with an example: such as, in Victoria, Airport Drive and Warrigal Road have official government names (Airport Connection Road and Warrigal Highway) that are literally never used, not even on signage. — E This, that and the other (talk) 07:23, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
"For an article title, use a commonly recognizable name. The preferred name is usually the most prevalent name used in reliable English-language sources. This preferred name may or may not be an official, scientific, birth, original, or trademarked name.
In determining the prevalence of a name, consider the usage in the sources referenced in the article, and you may also consider other reliable sources. Also consider the choice made by other encyclopedias.
The most prevalent name used may be discounted in favor of another of significant but lesser prevalence, due to problems such as: ambiguity, inaccuracy, non-neutrality, vulgarity or pedantry."