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This Wikiproject aims to provide structured data to study people's names throughout history, in the whole world, in all languages, for all people present in Wikidata, through structural properties and linguistic information.

Participants

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The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:
{{Ping project|Names}}

Basic principles

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These are the basic principles of this project. For more specific info, see Wikidata:WikiProject Names/Help

Properties

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People names is a complex subject of study, because of historical, cultural, linguistical usages for naming. Therefore, we have a few generic properties, and a LOT of very specific ones, to be able to manage most cases.

→ See the dedicated subpage for a list: Wikidata:WikiProject Names/Properties.

Sample items

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Tools and gadgets

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There are many tools and gadgets that can help you:

Statistics

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see Wikidata:WikiProject Names/numbers

Lexemes

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  • Create lexeme entries for all common names (given names, family names, etc.) that meet Notability criteria. Use proper noun (Q147276) as the lexical category.
  • Every existing spelling and pronunciation variant should have a lexeme. If it has its own item in Wikidata, there should also be a lexeme for it.
  • Each gloss should include a transliteration into the gloss language if the script of the name is uncommon in the gloss' language.
  • If a proper noun is also a company or place name, there should be a sense within the same lexeme representing the place or company name.
  • If a name is also a regular noun, the other noun should have its own lexeme, and there should be homograph lexeme (P5402) claims connecting them.
  • Some dictionaries also have entries for names. Consider adding those with external identifiers or described by source (P1343) claims. If a dictionary doesn't have an entry for a specific name, but it it usually has, add a not found in (P9660) claim.

See also

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Template:Interwikis from P460 (Q21529474)
To display interwikis to similar names in Wikipedia, copy the template to your Wikipedia and transcluded it. This can display interwikis on a Wikipedia article about "Sylvain" from the items Sylvain (Q16281827), Silvano (Q677210), Silvan (Q17565057), Silvanus (Q17565188), Szilvánusz (Q17565212), Silviu (Q2286869), Sylwan (Q17565214)
Template:Interwikis from P1889 (family names) (Q56475678)
To display interwikis from family name items at Wikipedia, copy the template to your Wikipedia and transclude it on disambiguation pages. This can display additional interwikis on a Wikipedia disambiguation page about "Miller" (Q304896) from sitelinks of the item about the family name "Miller" (Q1605060).