Witcher Wiki:Naming Conventions

The following naming conventions apply for article titles, section headings, categories as well as text within an article. In general, they should be written in correct English, unless they refer to a name or a title.

When to use lowercase

 * Creatures. While these some types of creatures encountered in-game are written with capitalized, they are not names.


 * ✅ "A water hag..."


 * ✅ "A Water Hag..."

When to capitalize
These are treated as names and should be capitalized as proper nouns.


 * Quest, e.g., "Lilac and Gooseberries"


 * Item, e.g., "Sulfur"


 * Ability, e.g., "Igni"


 * Place, e.g., "White Orchard"


 * Any kind of title, event, etc., e.g., "War of the Unicorns"

Exceptions
Some words must be always capitalized, regardless of the above guidelines.


 * Races, such at Dwarves


 * Named creatures, such as White Lady.

Differences between capitalized and non-capitalized words

 * Nilfgaard:


 * Capitalized: "Nilfgaard" refers to the kingdom or group of people (e.g., he is loyal to Nilfgaard)


 * Non-capitalized: "nilfgaard" refers to the adjective used to identify a particular person or object (e.g., nilfgaard soldiers)

Game terminology
Sometimes, the terminology in one game differs from that of another. If using a newer/different terminology ensure that a distinction is somehow made to show that it refers specifically to the game from which it originated.

Acts
Like the official game guide, the wiki refers to "Acts" to delinate major sections of the games. Always capitalize them and use the Arabic numeral system when referring to a specific act, e.g.:


 * ✅ "During Act 1..."


 * ✅ "During act I..."

Personal titles
When creating a page about a character who has a title, the title should not be used in the page name. This is done for the sake of brevity and because the title a character has may change over the course of their involvement in the series.

Plurals
In general only create page titles that are in the singular, unless that term is always in a plural form in English.