Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (adjectives)

Could someone please provide an example?? -- Gelu Ignisque

I don't know who did this, but it's been done. -- Toby Bartels

See Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (ambiguous adjectives) for a proposed modification. -- Toby Bartels 08:37, 2005 Mar 7 (UTC)

What about something along the lines of:

Where an adjective is in more common use than a corresponding noun, and applies to a number of different concepts, a disambiguation page may also be appropriate.

By way of precedent, I note that British is already a disambiguation page, rather than a redirect. Alai 22:21, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This is certainly reasonable in cases (like British) where the corresponding noun is not clear. But it doesn't apply to the motivating example on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (ambiguous adjectives) (which is Bounded <-> Boundedness, a disambiguation page either way). -- Toby Bartels 23:59, 2005 Mar 12 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages are generally not considered to be standard "articles" but rather "navigational aids", being referred to as "pages" rather than "articles"; therefore, it would seem acceptable to suspend the nouns-only titling guideline for disambiguation pages as a class. I am presently considering the creation of a special disambiguation tag that would highlight these exceptions, something like {{Adj-disambig}}, to be appended to pages that are disambiguation pages and which title is an adjective. See Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages). Courtland 02:35, 5 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Dual adjectives and population groups

According to this convention, it would appear that dual adjectives are to be frowned upon, and should be re-named. Is there a willingness to set about renaming Russian Brazilian, African American and probably many other similarly named articles, and if so, which is preferered: Fooian Templatonians or Fooian Templatonian people? Kevin McE (talk) 11:34, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Redundant?

Do we really need this page? All it's saying (apart from a grammar lesson) is that adjectives should be redirected to nouns. We can (and do) say that on the main naming conventions page: WP:NC#Name construction. So why bother people with this page?--Kotniski (talk) 08:49, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Doing this then.--Kotniski (talk) 13:44, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]