AoPS Wiki:Naming conventions

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The follow page creates guidelines for the systematic names of articles.

Capitalization

The search engine is case-sensitive. Like in normal English usage, all proper nouns should be capitalized.

  • Capitalize all non-trivial words in anything with any of the following words in it:
    • Theorem
    • Axiom
    • Postulate
    • Principle
  • definitely do not capitalize these:
    • Identity
    • Rule
    • Function
  • Always capitalize mathematical terms like Cosine or Sine that are not part of the general English language.
  • If in doubt, contact an sysop.

More discussion here.

Contests

For contest pages, the year should go before the contest name. If there is a compilation sheet of all of the problems, it should be located at YYYY Contest Problems. All of the solutions go to subpages at YYYY Contest Problems/Problem #. The answer key goes to YYYY Contest Answer Key.

Sections

Every non-trivial word in a section header should be captitalized without exception, like the title of a book.