 | This guideline documents an English Wikipedia naming convention. Editors should generally follow it, though exceptions may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on this guideline's talk page. |
The purpose of this page is to offer some guidance to Wikipedia articles when titling articles or referring to persons, places, and things whose names are originally from Tibetic languages or written in the Tibetan alphabet. These include names in Old Tibetan or in any of the languages and dialects descended from it: Standard Tibetan (including the language of Ü-Tsang), Khams, Amdo, Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Ladakhi, Balti, and Burig.
Under Wikipedia's article naming policy, article names should be based primarily on reliable sources and supported by consensus. Article names should be determined on the basis of recognizability, naturalness, precision, conciseness, and consistency. Alternative names are best suited as redirects and as content within the appropriately named article. Instances of alternative names and spellings, when required, should be piped to appropriately named articles.