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WikiProject Anthroponymy is a WikiProject aimed at improving Wikipedia's coverage of anthroponymy, that is information related to the names of people. The scope of this project includes articles about anthroponymy itself and related topics.

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Given names or surnames
• Wikipedia:Deletion policy/names and surnames (discussion reached conclusions in May 2005)
• Wikipedia:Lists
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (long lists)
• Wikipedia:Red link

• We need to create an article that can be an example of the model page that all name article should reflect
• Infobox names that includes useful information
• Start assessing the quality of each name article and utilize the bot to index these pages. As of 2008-03-22, 75% are not assessed along either of the two assessment dimension.
• For each WP:PROD and WP:AFD day - comprehensive identification of pending deletions
• There are articles needing attention listed below
• Create a new name article — see Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy/Articles that could be created for some suggestions for name articles
• Other ideas?
• Please join the discussion Wikipedia_talk:Disambiguation#Given_names about a policy of listing people with a given given name.

Task forces

1. Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy/Arabic names task force, converted from 'WikiProject Arabic names' 2008-04-03

Pending deletions

all deletion types: AfD, PROD, CfD, TfD, etc.

Throughput for this section is relatively low. If items are listed below, please review them and take appropriate action

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allahyarov (Dec 28, 2010)
• Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Cliburn_(surname) (Dec 5, 2010)

Resolved items

Assessment

Featured content

Currently there are no featured articles within the project. Former featured (and demoted) articles include:

• Names of the Greeks
• Yuan (surname)
• Korean name

Example of high-quality name articles

• William (name)

Articles needing attention

B-class

• Family name
• Smith (surname)

Start-class

• Adrian — needs references and more meat
• Ciarán
• Name change - Please see start page for structure proposal
• Sinclair (surname); Just added a whole bunch to it, its a list page mostly at the moment, I cleaned it up and added lots, will continue with this, just sticking it here for any extra help, thanks. ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ(^Ταλκ) 20:25, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stub-class

• Fraser (surname), split from Clan Fraser
• Grajek, orphaned and unreferenced since mid-2006
• Gul (name), needs infobox, origin, meaning & categories
• Loretta, currently redirects to an asteroid belt, needs a page

Merge suggestions

• Family name and Surname
• Martin (name) and Martyn (I have suggested a merger) (2008-01-27)

New articles

Please feel free to list newly created anthroponymy-related articles here (newest at the top); see also the non-redundant #Splits from disambiguation pages below. Interesting or unusual anthroponymy articles can be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page; see Template talk:Did you know.

Splits from disambiguation pages

2010

Old new articles and new splits information

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy/Articles activity archive for New Articles content from December 2007 forward.

Surname template

{{surname}}

or

{{surname|unqualified name}}

This template should be used only in the article (main) namespace.

Note: the above warning appears because this is not an article page.

Given name template

{{given name}}

or

{{given name|  |  }}

WikiProject banner template

{{WikiProject Anthroponymy}}

or

{{WikiProject Anthroponymy| class =  | importance =  }}

Anthroponymy Unassessed

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Anthroponymy, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the study of people's names on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AnthroponymyWikipedia:WikiProject AnthroponymyTemplate:WikiProject AnthroponymyAnthroponymy articles ??? This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

WikiProject participant template

{{User WikiProject Anthroponymy}} <br style="clear:both;"/>

This user is a participant in WikiProject Anthroponymy.

Deletion discussion template

{{Delsort WPAnthropo}}

Given name Infobox

{{Infobox given name
| name          = 
| image         = 
| image_size    = 
| caption       = 
| pronunciation = 
| gender        = 
| meaning       = 
| region        = 
| language      = 
| origin        = 
| alternative spelling = 
| nickname      = 
| related names = 
| name day      = 
| derived       = 
| popularity    = 
| footnotes     = 
}}

For example:

{{Infobox given name
| name          = William
| image         = William1.jpg
| imagesize     = 200px
| caption       = [[William the Conqueror]], The Duke of Normandy in the [[Bayeux Tapestry]]. The name William became very popular in the English language after the [[Norman Conquest]] of 1066 by William the Conqueror.
| pronunciation = wiljəm
| gender        = Male
| meaning       = ''will + helmet (protection)''
| region        = Germanic
| language      = Germanic
| alternative spelling = Will.i.am
| nickname      = [[Will]], [[Bill]], [[Billy]], [[Willy]]
| related names = [[Wilhelm]] 
| name day      = June 8
| popularity    = if you say so
| footnotes     = <ref>[http://www.babynames.co.uk/meaning_origin_name_William.htm William - Meaning and origin of the name William]</ref>
}}

produces:

Family name infobox

{{Infobox family name
| name          = 
| image         = 
| image_size    = <!-- width in pixels -->
| caption       = 
| pronunciation = 
| meaning       = 
| region        = 
| language      = 
| related names = 
| clans         = 
| footnotes     = 
}}

For example:

{{Infobox family name
| name          = Smith
| image         = Blacksmith at work02.jpg
| image_size    = 200 <!-- width in pixels -->
| caption       = A close-up of a [[blacksmith]] at work. Smith became a popular surname for those with this occupation.
| pronunciation = 
| meaning       = derived from smitan meaning ''to smite'' or ''strike''
| region        = 
| language      = Anglo-Saxon
| related names = [[Smit]], [[Smithe]], [[Smither]], [[Smithers]], [[Smithies]], [[Smithy]], [[Smyth]], and [[Smythe]]
| clans         = 
| footnotes     = <ref>[http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html 1990 Census Name Files]</ref>
}}

produces:

Redirect templates

{{R from surname}}

{{R from given name}}

Stub templates

• {{name-stub}}
• {{given-name-stub}}
• {{surname-stub}}

Subpages

• List of all subpages of this page

• Special:Prefixindex

Members

addition of "^A" indicates the member is an active admin

1. Remember (talk · contribs)
2. Nomenphile (talk · contribs)
3. Visviva (talk · contribs)^A
4. hmwith (talk · contribs)^A
5. JHunterJ (talk · contribs)^A
6. Blast san (talk · contribs)
7. Dina (talk · contribs)^A
8. User:Hailey C. Shannon
9. Swannie (proposer of the People Name Origins WikiProject)
10. Chris 11:31, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
11. Daamien 22:15, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
12. Fayenatic london (talk · contribs)
13. The Fat Man Who Never Came Back (talk · contribs)
14. Ceyockey (talk · contribs)^A
15. Celtus (talk · contribs)
16. Quickmythril (talk · contribs)
17. Emperor (talk · contribs)^A
18. Arcayne (talk · contribs)
19. Bookworm857158367 (talk · contribs)
20. TedSwarovski (talk · contribs)
21. WTGDMan1986 (talk · contribs)
22. Leodmacleod (talk · contribs)
23. SamuelTheGhost (talk · contribs)
24. Tyciol (talk · contribs)
25. Ivan Akira (talk · contribs)
26. Jc3s5h (talk · contribs)
27. Brianyoumans (talk · contribs)
28. Hutcher (talk) 05:19, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Inactive members

1. Ypetrachenko (talk · contribs)

Related WikiProjects

An explanation as to why each WikiProject is relevant and related to the Anthroponymy Project has been provided here. Listed WikiProjects each have a reciprocal back-linkage to WikiProject Anthroponymy unless otherwise noted.

• Linguistics^umbrella (no back-linkage)

  Linguistics is relevant to name studies in at least three ways: by providing the limits on vocalization and spelling that apply to human names in addition to other words in a language; by providing a language context from which new human names may emerge (e.g. brown the color becoming Brown the surname; smith the occupation becoming Smith the surname); and by providing transformation rules that apply to human names as they traverse linguistic boundaries alongside the migration of peoples and the evolution of languages.

• Etymology^inactive (no back-linkage)

  The etymology of a surname or given name is an essential part of a complete surname or given name article

• Clans of Scotland

  Scottish Clans are the origin of a significant number of surnames emerging from the British Isles. These surnames are often used as male forenames too. For instance, Ross, Cameron, or Campbell.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation (no back-linkage)

  As of Q1 2008 there is an ongoing discussion around what distinguishes a dab page from a name article and what things belong in each.

Background reading

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anthroponymy/Lists of names
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)/Archive 25#Hndis needs its own Manual
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)/Archive 27#See also

Controversy

the items here are meant to be representative of discussions, not comprehensive; please consult before adding more

• Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Names (June 2005) (Conclusion: It is undesirable to categorize people by name.)
• Allen (surname) at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allen (surname) (24 August 2006 – 30 August 2006) Keep
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive135#Name pages and disambiguation (September 2006)
• Lǐ (李) (surname) at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lǐ (李) (surname) (22 November 2006 – 1 December 2006) No consensus
• Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 November 22#Family name categories (Conclusion: Nine nominated categories deleted)
• List of people with the first name Julie at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people with the first name Julie (6 April 2007 – 12 April 2007) Delete
• List of people by name at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/List of people by name (17 May 2007 – 19 May 2007) No consensus (suspended discussion)
  • List of people by name at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 May 23#List of people by name Overturn and delete
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 11#Category:Jewish surnames (Conclusion: No consensus)

Name information links

• http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx?ln= This interface provides access to U.S. census data from 1920, 1880 and 1840 as well as England/Wales census data from 1891 in a geographical distribution context. Examples of use: Ballabon talk page (prep for article); Gius
• http://www.tr62.de/names/default.html This is an interesting site that provides access to maps of surname distribution in Germany based on telephone directory analysis along with interpretation of the mapping data. Unfortunately, not all content is free and it is meant as something of a portfolio to generate interest in ordering 'custom' maps.
• http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/arval/badpages.shtml: a site that looks at many different name-information web resources and provides a critique of their content, supporting information and overall utility and validity

• Frequency sites
  • Names of Jews in Rome, 1550: http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/yehoshua/rome_stats.html
  • England, Wales, Isle of Man: http://surnames.behindthename.com/top/lists/500ens1991.php/
  • Northern Ireland: http://www.nisra.gov.uk/ (referring URL: http://www.dfpni.gov.uk/index/news/most-popular-baby-names.htm)