Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals)

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.

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This page in a nutshell: Article titles should use singular form, except for nouns that are always in their plural form.

In general, Wikipedia articles have singular titles; for example, our article on the Canis familiaris species is at Dog, not Dogs. This rule exists to promote consistency in our article titles, and generally leads to slightly more concise titles as well.

Exceptions exist for two general types of articles.