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{{Policy}}With the multitude of subjects in the ''[[Rhythm Heaven Series]]'' series, it can sometimes be difficult to find the right way to name a page. Generally, the best source for naming will come from the game itself, but when subjects are not named within the actual game or the subject doesn't appear in video games at all, you may need to turn to secondary sources for an official name.

==Naming a page==

There are several steps to follow when naming a page:

*{{SITENAME}} is an English language wiki, so the name of a page should correspond to the {{Nihongo|most commonly used English name}} of the subject, which, given our user and visitor demographics, means the {{Nihongo|North American name}}. For example, the North American title of "''[[Rhythm Heaven Fever]]''" takes precedence over the PAL region's "''[[Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise]]''" title (although as the PAL name is also an English source, it is acceptable as a redirect).

*If a subject isn't released in North America, but is released in another English-speaking region (i.e. Europe or Australia), the name they provide should be used for the page. If there is a conflict of which source to use, the region where the game was released first will have priority (i.e. the {{Nihongo|first international English name}} will be used).

*If there is no official English name, then the {{Nihongo|first international name from a non-English region}} is used. For example, the venue where the [[Love Posse feat. MC Adore]] make their debut does not have an official English or French name. However, the official Japanese and Korean names are romanized as "Live House OGU", the German and Italian names are "Club OGU", and the Spanish name is "Sala de conciertos OGU". As the Japanese release came before every other release, the Japanese name "[[Live House OGU]]" gets the page name (or in this case, the redirect, as the venue did get localized as [[Rock 'n' Roll Hall]] in the previous game). However, if an official English name is found, then it becomes the name. Usually, this means the Japanese name is used in the absence of an English one, and the template {{t|Eigo}} is placed at the top of the page.

*If there is no official name in any language, the subject is mentioned in the closest relevant page. For example, the page [[Glass Tappers]] covers the gameplay of the [[Endless Game]] in question, but as the characters within it are never named (outside of the not very descriptive internal names), the page doubles as a character page.  

*When naming a page, do {{Nihongo|not}} use game abbreviations. (e.g. use [[Reading Material (Rhythm Heaven Fever)]] as opposed to "Reading Material (RHF)").

This is a list of acceptable sources when it comes to naming a page. If a source is not present, keep moving down the list until you have found the right way to name the page, and only create a conjectural title as a last resort.

# {{Nihongo|Name used in officially licensed media}} – A name from any officially Nintendo-licensed media source. This includes crossover appearances in other video games, cartoons, movies, magazines, comics and web content (if any). Like the above, North American media names get priority, followed by the first international English name and finally, the first non-English source.

Please note that ''regardless of the source'', the {{Nihongo|official North American name}} takes priority, followed by the {{Nihongo|first international English name}} if no North American name is available, and finally the {{Nihongo|first international non-English name}} if no English name is known. For example, if a subject is given a name in-game in the Japanese version only, and not in the English localization of the game, but an English strategy guide names it, that English name is used, rather than the Japanese.

Please also note that general and lengthy descriptions of a subject that are clearly not intended as the subject's name are not suitable sources for the page's title. For example, while straightforward titles like "[[Girl]]" are fine, if the subject is described as "this sad little lady" or "a kangaroo filled with a variety of fruit juices", that should not be the name of the page.

Any name from a source not covered above is considered unofficial and conjectural. Generally, conjecturally named subjects don't have pages because they are either not noteworthy enough to have a page or don't have much information to cover. However, subjects that are detailed and noteworthy enough to have pages still have to adhere to certain guidelines.

Conjectural names are usually decided upon by the users of {{SITENAME}} or commonly used names by the ''Rhythm Heaven'' community. When deciding on a name, the name must be simple yet accurate. Currently, the only applicable example is [[Tanuki & Monkey]], an unused game in ''[[Rhythm Tengoku]]'' with no title found in the code, with the name coming from a [[List of Scrapped Rhythm Games]] which fits the description of the game. The template {{t|Conjecture}} is used at the top of such pages.

In certain cases, names may be changed because the old name is replaced with a newer name. An example of this is how games like "The Clappy Trio" were changed to [[The Clappy Trio 2]] in ''[[Rhythm Heaven Megamix]]''. In these cases, the newer name will replace the older one with certain exceptions. Exceptions include naming errors, translation errors, the use of aliases/nicknames, or if a newer release is simply a rerelease of an older game (such as the Wii U eShop release of ''[[Rhythm Heaven Fever]]''). When mentioning subjects whose names have changed over time, the newest name generally takes greater priority, except in the context of older media where they went by previous names, in which case those are used instead. For example, the list of games on ''[[Rhythm Tengoku]]'''s page lists the game as [[The Clappy Trio 2|Pachi Pachi Sanninshu]], while the one for ''[[Rhythm Heaven Fever]]'' lists it as [[The Clappy Trio 2|The Clappy Trio]], as the game was known in those games.

It is possible to come across a subject which shares the same title as another subject, in which case identifiers must be used to show which one of the same-named subjects is covered in each page. If there is one subject that is clearly more popular than the others, the popular subject will keep the original title while the others use identifiers. For example, the game gets the ''[[Rhythm Heaven]]'' name, whereas the building's page is [[Rhythm Heaven (location)]]. If the subjects are equally likely to be linked to or searched for, both pages are given identifiers while the plain subject title is made into a disambiguation page (marked with {{t|disambig}}). For example, [[Samurai Slice]] is a disambiguation page linking to all the other uses of the title (or similar enough titles), such as [[Samurai Slice (DS)]] and [[Samurai Slice (Wii)]]. If there are five or more pages sharing the same name, a disambiguation page must be used. When disambiguation pages are used, the pages should only link to them in {{t|about}} when necessary, but if a disambiguation page is not used, the pages can merely link to the other same-named page.