Commons:Naming categories  From Wikimedia Commons, the free
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in other languages:  English | 日本語 | +/−  This page provides
guidelines to choose a correct name for a Commons category page.
You have to make such choice:    1. when you create a new
category page to categorize media related to a new subject in
Commons;   2. when there are several duplicate categories about
the same subject, and you want to choose the correct category to
gather media files and subpages in a single category page;   3.
when there is one or several duplicate category(ies) about a
given subject, but no correct category name(s), and you want to
create a new category page about an existing subject.   Category
names should generally be in English (see Commons:Language
policy). However there are exceptions:    • Proper names of
individual people, places, buildings, organizations etc. and
other specific names of local phenomena, should in general use
the name most frequently used