Wikipedia:Category names

This page contains a list of guidelines concerning naming conventions for categories. If you wish to propose a new naming convention for categories or modify an existing convention, please do so on the talk page.

Descent
For categorizing people by ancestry or ethnicity, the format is: "FOOian people of BARian descent", where "FOOian" is the person's nationality (country of citizenship) and "BARian" is the person's ethnic ancestry (such as Category:Irish people of Ghanaian descent and Category:American people of German descent).

Occupation
Currently, Wikipedia supports categorizing people by occupation, such as: People by educational institution and People by company, as well as other more specific categories.

For categorizing people by occupation, the format is: FOOs, where FOO is the occupation name (such as Category:Editors); or People in FOO or FOO people, where FOO is the topic of the occupation (such as Category:People in agriculture‎ or Category:Music people).

Occupation categories should not be divided into "current" or "former" categories. For example, Category:Former child actors and Category:Current Minnesota Twins players should not exist.

Residence
For categorizing people by place of residence, the format is: People from Foo (not "Natives of Foo"). Where the commonly used English name for residents of a place is well-known globally (usually the original place of that name), Fooite demonym categories should be category redirected to People from Foo, in order to assist with automated categorization (for example, Category:New Yorkers).

Place of burial
For categorizing people by place of burial, the format is: Burials at Foo Cemetery.

Time periods
By convention, a category name designating a time period with a number (in Arabic numerals) represents a calendar year in the Common Era. For categorizing people by years BCE, the format is: " BC", for example Category:220 BC deaths.

For categorizing people by century, the format is: Category:xx-century foos or Category:xx-century BC foos.

Categories by country
All categories whose subcategories are categories by country (roughly all categories that are members of Category:Categories by country) shall have a per-category naming convention which will apply to all of their subcategories. These naming conventions, their guidelines and their exceptions are listed here. Non-conformance to these naming conventions shall be treated as a criterion for "speedy category renaming" as defined on WP:CFD.

Events
Categories regarding events in countries (along with years and time) are named "... in country." This guideline applies to:

Millennia - Centuries - Decades - Years - Establishments - Disestablishments

Manufactured objects
For categorizing permanently located manufactured objects by country, the format is: "... in country". This guideline applies to:

Airports - American football venues - Amusement parks - Archaeological sites - Art museums - Association football venues - Athletics (track and field) venues (mostly named "athletics" as per non-U.S. usage) - Baseball venues - Basketball venues - Bridges - Buildings and structures - Casinos - Castles - Cathedrals - Cemeteries - Churches - Cities - Cricket grounds - Forts - Gardens - Ghost towns - Golf clubs and courses - Horse racing venues - Hospitals - Hotels - Indoor arenas - Libraries - Monasteries - Motorsport venues - Mosques - Museums - Palaces - Parks - Prisons - Railway stations - Reservoirs - Roads - Rugby union stadiums - Schools - Shopping malls (or shopping centres, based on local usage) - Skyscrapers - Sports venues - Theatres - Towns - Universities and colleges ("Universities" categories are also legitimate in countries where universities and colleges are distinct, i.e. most countries, and are often a subcategory) - Villages - World Heritage Sites - Zoos

Landforms
For categorizing landforms by country, the format is: "... of country". This guideline applies to:

Landforms (top category) - Beaches - Hills - Islands - Lakes - Mountains - Mountain passes - Mountain ranges - Peninsulas - Rivers - Volcanoes

Companies
For categorizing "by country" subcategories of all  by country categories, the format is: ... of country. This guideline applies to:

Airlines - Banks - Book publishing companies - Companies - Defunct companies - Engineering companies - Financial services companies - Insurance companies - Manufacturing companies - Retail companies

State-based topics
For categorizing topics usually in the domain of the state, the format is: "... of country".

Administrative divisions - Foreign relations - Government - Military - Military equipment - Military units and formations - Municipalities * - National parks - Postal systems - Protected areas
 * Administrative divisions use the "of" format and settlements use the "in" format. Municipalities are usually found in non-English speaking countries as third tier administrative divisions covering the whole country including rural areas. In most cases, there are separate designations for settlements such as cities and towns. However where the designation "municipality" is used solely for urban settlements (example, Romania) or where it is the only official designation for cities and towns (example, Spain), the category takes the "in" form.

Political office-holders
For categorizing subcategories of  by country, the format is:
 * ... of country for those concerning holders of a specific office with jurisdiction over a country
 * ... in country for those that group offices of a certain type, operating within a country

This guideline applies to:

Political office-holders - Heads of government - Heads of state - Legislators - Government ministers (or "cabinet secretaries" if that is local usage) - minister lists - Presidents - Prime ministers


 * For categorizing specific jurisdictions within a country, province, state, or equivalent, the format is: ... of places in ...
 * For categorizing the specific jurisdiction, the format is: ... of place

This guideline applies to:

Mayors

Sport
For categorizing "by-country" subcategories of all  by country, the format is: ... in country. This guideline applies to:

Athletics - Association football (Australia, Canada and USA: "soccer") - Baseball - Basketball - Clubs and teams - Cricket - Cycle racing - Golf - Horse racing - Ice hockey - Motorsport - Rugby league - Rugby union - Sport (or sports if that is local usage) - Tennis

Miscellaneous "of country"
For categorizing subcategories of these categories, the format is: "... of country".

Cinema - Coins - Demographics - Economies - Environment - Fauna - Geography - History - Languages - Natural history - Politics - Ships - Trade unions - Weapons

Miscellaneous "in country"
For categorizing subcategories of these categories, the format is: "... in country".

Aviation - Business - Capital punishment - Communications - Crime - Disasters - Education - Ethnic groups - Health - Human rights - Landmarks - Law enforcement - Mass media - Nature conservation - Political parties - Populated places - Public holidays - Rail transport - Religion - Science and technology - Television - Tourism - Transportation (or transport if that is local usage)

Miscellaneous "involving country"
For categorizing subcategories of these categories, the format is: "... involving country".

Battles - Military operations - Naval battles - Sieges - Wars

Miscellaneous
Aircraft ("manufactured by Foo") - Charities ("based in Foo") - Environmental organizations ("based in Foo") - Newspapers ("published in Foo") - Organizations ("based in Foo")

Undecided by country
The convention for these categories is yet to be decided. See the talk page for details. These will be moved up as consensus develops.


 * Films - Category:Films by country
 * Magazines - Category:Magazines by country
 * Law - Category:Law by country (currently mostly "Fooish law")

Technical categories

 * For categorizing Images by country, the format is: "Images of country".
 * For categorizing Lists by country, the format is: "Country-related lists"
 * For categorizing Stubs by region, the format is: "Country stubs".

How to name the country
For "of country" and "in country" categories, the name of the country should appear as it does in the name of the article about that country, with a lowercase "the" if needed for grammatical purposes. Non-sovereign, disputed, supranational, and historical countries and geographic equivalents may be included if the articles to be categorized require it. For reference, see List of sovereign states, List of dependent territories, and the following list.

In category naming, country names should not be abbreviated (except to the extent that they are already in their respective article titles - for example, "United Kingdom", but not "UK" or "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland").

(Note: Links to articles are shown only for reference; links obviously cannot appear in the actual title of a category.)


 * of the Republic of the Congo for Congo-Brazzaville
 * of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for Congo-Kinshasa (formerly Zaire)
 * of China (common name for the People's Republic of China)
 * of Taiwan (common name for the Republic of China)
 * See also: Naming conventions (Chinese)
 * of the Republic of Ireland (for the modern-day state)
 * of Northern Ireland (for the modern-day country)
 * of Cyprus (Greek and Turkish Cyprus usually have combined categories)
 * of Samoa (independent country)
 * of American Samoa (U.S. territory)
 * of Russia (for the modern-day country)
 * of the Bahamas
 * of Bosnia and Herzegovina
 * of the British Virgin Islands
 * of the Cayman Islands
 * of the Central African Republic
 * of the Comoros
 * of the Cook Islands
 * of the Czech Republic
 * of the Dominican Republic
 * of Eswatini
 * of the Falkland Islands
 * of the Faroe Islands
 * of the Federated States of Micronesia
 * of the Gambia
 * of Georgia (country)
 * of the Isle of Man
 * of Ivory Coast
 * of Kosovo
 * of the Maldives
 * of Malta
 * of the Marshall Islands
 * of the Netherlands
 * of North Macedonia
 * of the Philippines
 * of the Pitcairn Islands
 * of Saint Kitts and Nevis
 * of Seychelles
 * of the Solomon Islands
 * of Ukraine
 * of the United Arab Emirates
 * of the United Kingdom
 * of the United States
 * of the United States Virgin Islands
 * of Vatican City
 * of Wallis and Futuna
 * of Western Sahara
 * of Azerbaijan
 * of East Timor
 * of Yemen (the modern-day country that unified former North and South Yemen in the 1990s)
 * of North Korea
 * of South Korea
 * of Slovenia
 * of Croatia
 * of Serbia
 * of Montenegro

Supranational:
 * of the European Union
 * of Ireland (island-wide)
 * etc., on a case-by-case basis

Historical:
 * of the Irish Free State (historical material only)
 * of the Netherlands Antilles (former dependent territory only)
 * of the Soviet Union (former country only)
 * of Yugoslavia (former country only)
 * of Serbia and Montenegro (former country only)
 * etc., on a case-by-case basis

Dealing with overlaps
When historical and political complexities (such as mergers and splits) create articles that belong to two countries, do not create a "Foo of X and Y". Instead, list articles in both "Foo of X" and "Foo of Y"; for example, "Foo of Russia" and "Foo of the Soviet Union", not "Foo of Russia and the Soviet Union". The same applies for geographic features that cross national borders, for example "Foo of the United States" and "Foo of Canada", not "Foo of the United States and Canada".

Categories by nationality
All categories whose subcategories are categories by nationality (roughly all categories that are members of Category:People by nationality or Category:Works by nationality) shall have a per-category naming convention which will apply to all of their subcategories. These naming conventions, their guidelines and their exceptions are listed here. Non-conformance to these naming conventions shall be treated as a criterion for "speedy category renaming" as defined on WP:CFD. Changing these conventions shall require a consensual discussion either directly at WP:CFD or publicized there.

Cultural topics
National subcategories of these categories are named using the nationality rather than the country name, as they follow the national diasporas. However, the container categories are named "by country", e.g. Category:Art by country and Category:Culture by country.

Art - Cuisine - Culture - Literature - Music - Plays

Note that many other sub-topics of "Society" are named using the country name, and so are some cultural topics e.g. Architecture and Classical music.

People by nationality
For categorizing subcategories of People by nationality, the format is: "nationality ...".

Murderers - Musical groups - People by nationality and occupation - People by occupation and nationality - People

Nationality and occupation
For categorizing people by their nationality and occupation, the format is: "fooian fooers", such as Category:Ethiopian musicians.

Concurrent citizenship may be reflected by categorizing the article by each nationality. For example, Category:Canadian actors and Category:American actors for a dual American–Canadian citizen. Categories that combine two nationalities with an occupation, generally should not be created.

The category description should mention the most commonly used names ("Fooians", or "Fooers"), which can be found in verifiable reliable sources.

The template Fooian fooers can be used to provide navigation on each category page. For example:


 * Please note that this template may need to be modified for some categories. To avoid ambiguity, some nationalities are listed as "People of Foo" instead of "Fooian"; for example, "Georgian people" could mean either Category:People from Georgia (country) or Category:People from Georgia (U.S. state). For those categories, use Fooers from Boo. For sub-categories of Category:People from Northern Ireland by occupation, use Fooers from Northern Ireland.
 * Similarly, some nationalities are listed as "Country people" instead of "Fooian people", such as Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina musicians and Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo musicians. In those cases the value used for "nationality" is the name of the country.

How to name a nationality
A list of adjectival forms of place names is available on Wikipedia. In situations where multiple adjectives are possible for a particular nationality (e.g., Argentine vs. Argentinean), discussions at categories for discussion have frequently opted for one alternative over another to ensure consistency in category naming. Note that the singular-form demonym and adjective for many nationalities are not interchangeable. (i.e., Icelander vs. Icelandic; New Zealander vs. New Zealand). Most category names use the adjectival form, not the noun-form demonym.

Some states do not possess unambiguous (i.e., "Congolese" for Democratic Republic of the Congo) or universally-applicable (i.e., "Bosnian" for Bosnia and Herzegovina) adjectives. In these circumstances, the format is: "Country FOO", where Country is the unamended name of the country.

The list below reflects the most recent consensuses on what form to use for particular nationalities. These adopted forms may be subject to change by consensus and proposals to do so can be made by nominating the affected categories at categories for discussion. References are included to discussions that have discussed particular name formats.

Current nationalities
• Abkhazian FOOs (Abkhazia)

• Afghan FOOs (Afghanistan)

• Albanian FOOs (Albania)

• Algerian FOOs (Algeria)

• American FOOs (United States)

• American Samoan FOOs (American Samoa)

• Andorran FOOs (Andorra)

• Angolan FOOs (Angola)

• Anguillan FOOs (Anguilla)

• Antigua and Barbuda FOOs (Antigua and Barbuda)

• Argentine FOOs (Argentina)

• Armenian FOOs (Armenia)

• Aruban FOOs (Aruba)

• Australian FOOs (Australia)

• Austrian FOOs (Austria)

• Azerbaijani FOOs (Azerbaijan)

• Bahamaian FOOs (The Bahamas)

• Bahraini FOOs (Bahrain)

• Bangladeshi FOOs (Bangladesh)

• Barbadian FOOs (Barbados)

• Belarusian FOOs (Belarus)

• Belgian FOOs (Belgium)

• Belizean FOOs (Belize)

• Beninese FOOs (Benin)

• Bermudian (Bermuda)

• Bhutanese FOOs (Bhutan)

• Bissau-Guinean FOOs (Guinea-Bissau)

• Bolivian FOOs (Bolivia)

• Bonaire FOOs (Bonaire)

• Bosnia and Herzegovina FOOs (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

• Botswana FOOs (Botswana)

• Brazilian FOOs (Brazil)

• British FOOs (United Kingdom)

• British Antarctic Territory FOOs (British Antarctic Territory)

• British Indian Ocean Territory FOOs (British Indian Ocean Territory)

• British Virgin Islands FOOs (British Virgin Islands)

• Bruneian FOOs (Brunei)

• Bulgarian FOOs (Bulgaria)

• Burkinabé FOOs (Burkina Faso)

• Burmese FOOs (Myanmar)

• Burundian FOOs (Burundi)

• Cambodian FOOs (Cambodia)

• Cameroonian FOOs (Cameroon)

• Canadian FOOs (Canada)

• Cape Verdean FOOs (Cape Verde)

• Caymanian FOOs (Cayman Islands)

• Central African Republic FOOs (Central African Republic)

• Chadian FOOs (Chad)

• Chilean FOOs (Chile)

• Chinese FOOs (China)

• Colombian FOOs (Colombia)

• Comorian FOOs (Comoros)

• Democratic Republic of the Congo FOOs (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

• Republic of the Congo FOOs (Republic of the Congo)

• Cook Island FOOs (for people); Cook Islands FOOs (for inanimate things) (Cook Islands)

• Costa Rican FOOs (Costa Rica)

• Croatian FOOs (Croatia)

• Cuban FOOs (Cuba)

• Curaçao FOOs (Curaçao)

• Cypriot FOOs (Cyprus)

• Czech FOOs (Czech Republic)

• Danish FOOs (Denmark)

• Djiboutian FOOs (Djibouti)

• Dominica FOOs (Dominica)

• Dominican Republic FOOs (Dominican Republic)

• Dutch FOOs (Netherlands)

• East Timorese FOOs (East Timor)

• Ecuadorian FOOs (Ecuador)

• Egyptian FOOs (Egypt)

• Emirati FOOs (United Arab Emirates)

• English FOOs (England)

• Equatoguinean FOOs (Equatorial Guinea)

• Eritrean FOOs (Eritrea)

• Estonian FOOs (Estonia)

• Ethiopian FOOs (Ethiopia)

• Falkland Islands FOOs (Falkland Islands)

• Faroese FOOs (Faroe Islands)

• Fijian FOOs (Fiji)

• Filipino FOOs (for people); Philippine FOOs (for inanimate things) (Philippines)

• Finnish FOOs (Finland)

• French FOOs (France)

• French Guianan FOOs (French Guiana)

• French Polynesian FOOs (French Polynesia)

• Gabonese FOOs (Gabon)

• Gambian FOOs (The Gambia)

• FOOs from/of Georgia (Georgia)

• German FOOs (Germany)

• Ghanaian FOOs (Ghana)

• Gibraltarian FOOs (Gibraltar)

• Greek FOOs (Greece)

• Greenlandic FOOs (Greenland)

• Grenadian FOOs (Grenada)

• Guadeloupean FOOs (Guadeloupe)

• Guam FOOs (Guam)

• Guatemalan FOOs (Guatemala)

• Guinean FOOs (Guinea)

• Guyanese FOOs (Guyana)

• Haitian FOOs (Haiti)

• Honduran FOOs (Honduras)

• Hong Kong FOOs (Hong Kong)

• Hungarian FOOs (Hungary)

• Icelandic FOOs (Iceland)

• Indian FOOs (India)

• Indonesian FOOs (Indonesia)

• Iranian FOOs (Iran)

• Iraqi FOOs (Iraq)

• Irish FOOs (Ireland)

• Israeli FOOs (Israel)

• Italian FOOs (Italy)

• Ivorian FOOs (Ivory Coast)

• Jamaican FOOs (Jamaica)

• Japanese FOOs (Japan)

• Jordanian FOOs (Jordan)

• Kazakhstani FOOs (Kazakhstan)

• Kenyan FOOs (Kenya)

• I-Kiribati FOOs (Kiribati)

• Kosovan FOOs (Kosovo)

• Kuwaiti FOOs (Kuwait)

• Kyrgyzstani FOOs (Kyrgyzstan)

• Laotian FOOs (Laos)

• Latvian FOOs (Latvia)

• Lebanese FOOs (Lebanon)

• Lesotho FOOs (Lesotho)

• Liberian FOOs (Liberia)

• Libyan FOOs (Libya)

• Liechtenstein FOOs (Liechtenstein)

• Lithuanian FOOs (Lithuania)

• Luxembourgian FOOs (Luxembourg)

• Macau FOOs (Macau)

• Macedonian FOOs or North Macedonian FOOs or FOOS from/of North Macedonia (North Macedonia) per the specific naming convention

• Malagasy FOOs (Madagascar)

• Malawian FOOs (Malawi)

• Malaysian FOOs (Malaysia)

• Maldivian FOOs (Maldives)

• Malian FOOs (Mali)

• Maltese FOOs (Malta)

• Marshallese FOOs (Marshall Islands)

• Mauritanian FOOs (Mauritania)

• Mauritian FOOs (Mauritius)

• Mexican FOOs (Mexico)

• Federated States of Micronesia FOOs (Federated States of Micronesia)

• Moldovan FOOs (Moldova)

• Monegasque FOOs (Monaco)

• Mongolian FOOs (Mongolia)

• Montenegrin FOOs (Montenegro)

• Montserratian FOOs (Montserrat)

• Moroccan FOOs (Morocco)

• Mozambican FOOs (Mozambique)

• Namibian FOOs (Namibia)

• Nauruan FOOs (Nauru)

• Nepalese FOOs (Nepal)

• New Caledonian FOOs (New Caledonia)

• New Zealand FOOs (New Zealand)

• Nicaraguan FOOs (Nicaragua)

• Nigerian FOOs (Nigeria)

• Nigerien FOOs (Niger)

• Niuean FOOs (Niue)

• North Korean FOOs (North Korea)

• FOOs from/of Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland)

• Northern Mariana Islands FOOs (Northern Mariana Islands)

• Norwegian FOOs (Norway)

• Omani FOOs (Oman)

• Pakistani FOOs (Pakistan)

• Palauan FOOs (Palau)

• Palestinian FOOs (State of Palestine)

• Panamanian FOOs (Panama)

• Papua New Guinean FOOs (Papua New Guinea)

• Paraguayan FOOs (Paraguay)

• Peruvian FOOs (Peru)

• Pitcairn Islands FOOs (Pitcairn Islands)

• Polish FOOs (Poland)

• Portuguese FOOs (Portugal)

• Puerto Rican FOOs (Puerto Rico)

• Qatari FOOs (Qatar)

• FOOs from/of Réunion (Réunion)

• Romanian FOOs (Romania)

• Russian FOOs (Russia)

• Rwandan FOOs (Rwanda)

• FOOs from/of Saba (Saba (island))

• Sahrawi FOOs (Western Sahara)

• Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha FOOs (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha)

• Saint Kitts and Nevis FOOs (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

• Saint Lucian FOOs (Saint Lucia)

• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines FOOs (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)

• Salvadoran FOOs (El Salvador)

• Samoan FOOs (Samoa)

• Sammarinese FOOs (San Marino)

• São Tomé and Príncipe FOOs (São Tomé and Príncipe)

• Saudi Arabian FOOs (Saudi Arabia)

• Scottish FOOs (Scotland)

• Senegalese FOOs (Senegal)

• Serbian FOOs (Serbia)

• Seychellois FOOs (Seychelles)

• Sierra Leonean FOOs (Sierra Leone)

• Singaporean FOOs (Singapore)

• Sint Eustatius FOOs (Sint Eustatius)

• Sint Maarten FOOs (Sint Maarten)

• Slovak FOOs (Slovakia)

• Slovenian FOOs (Slovenia)

• Solomon Islands FOOs (Solomon Islands)

• Somalian FOOs (Somalia)

• Somaliland FOOs (Somaliland)

• South African FOOs (South Africa)

• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands FOOs (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)

• South Korean FOOs (South Korea)

• South Ossetian FOOs (South Ossetia)

• South Sudanese FOOs (South Sudan)

• Spanish FOOs (Spain)

• Sri Lankan FOOs (Sri Lanka)

• Sudanese FOOs (Sudan)

• Surinamese FOOs (Suriname)

• Swazi FOOs (Eswatini)

• Swedish FOOs (Sweden)

• Swiss FOOs (Switzerland)

• Syrian FOOs (Syria)

• Taiwanese FOOs (Taiwan)

• Tajikistani FOOs (Tajikistan)

• Tanzanian FOOs (Tanzania)

• Thai FOOs (Thailand)

• Tokelauan FOOs (Tokelau)

• Tongan FOOs (Tonga)

• Trinidad and Tobago FOOs (Trinidad and Tobago)

• Tunisian FOOs (Tunisia)

• Turkish FOOs (Turkey)

• Turkish Cypriot FOOs (Northern Cyprus)

• Turkmenistan FOOs (Turkmenistan)

• Turks and Caicos Islands FOOs (Turks and Caicos Islands)

• Tuvaluan FOOs (Tuvalu)

• Ugandan FOOs (Uganda)

• Ukrainian FOOs (Ukraine)

• United States Virgin Islands FOOs (United States Virgin Islands)

• Uruguayan FOOs (Uruguay)

• Uzbekistani FOOs (Uzbekistan)

• Vanuatuan FOOs (Vanuatu)

• Vatican City FOOs (Vatican City)

• Venezuelan FOOs (Venezuela)

• Vietnamese FOOs (Vietnam)

• Wallis and Futuna FOOs (Wallis and Futuna)

• Welsh FOOs (Wales)

• Zambian FOOs (Zambia)

• Zimbabwean FOOs (Zimbabwe)

Former nationalities
In general, the formats for people of former nationalities is less settled. The list below represents examples which are reasonably well settled.

After September 2022, "of" is now deprecated and "from" will become the standard for former countries that have compound names.

Therefore, for categorizing people of former nationalities with a compound name, the format is: "FOOs from Country".

• Austro-Hungarian FOOs (Austria-Hungary)

• Byzantine FOOs (Byzantine Empire)

• Czechoslovak FOOs (Czechoslovakia)

• Dutch Antillean FOOs (Netherlands Antilles)

• Ancient Egyptian FOOs (Ancient Egypt)

• East German FOOs (East Germany)

• West German FOOs (West Germany)

• FOOs from the Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Empire)

• Rhodesian FOOs (Rhodesia)

• FOOs from the Russian Empire (Russian Empire)

• Serbia and Montenegro FOOs (Serbia and Montenegro)

• Soviet FOOs (Soviet Union)

• Republic of Venice FOOs (Republic of Venice)

• North Yemeni FOOs (Yemen Arab Republic)

• South Yemeni FOOs (South Yemen)

• Yugoslav FOOs (Yugoslavia)

Works of art categories by artist
All categories whose subcategories are categories by creative artist (roughly all categories that are members of Category:Works by artist) shall have a per-category naming convention which will apply to all of their subcategories. These naming conventions, their guidelines and their exceptions are listed here. Non-conformance to these naming conventions shall be treated as a criterion for "speedy category renaming" as defined at WP:CFD. Changing these conventions shall require a consensual discussion either directly at WP:CFD or publicized there.

Music by composer
For categorizing music by composer, the format is: "Compositions by [composer]".

Compositions by composer – Operas by composer – Symphonies by composer – Songs by composer

Music by performer
For categorizing music by performer, the format is: "[Performer] works".

Albums by artist – Songs by artist

Visual arts
For categorizing articles of each type of work of an artist, the format is: "[type of work]s by [artist]" (for example, Category:Paintings by Salvador Dalí). For categorizing subcategories of different types of work of an artist (for example, for paintings and sculpture), the format for the parent category is: "Works by Foo".

Paintings by artist – Sculptures by artist

Architecture
For categorizing architecture by architect, the format is: "[Architect] buildings", with exceptions for architects involved in more than one type of work.

Buildings and structures by architect

Literature
For categorizing literature by writer, the format is: "[Work]s by [writer]".

Works by writer – Novels by writer – Books by writer – Essay collections by writer – Essays by writer – Picture books by writer – Plays by writer – Poetry by writer – Short stories by writer – Short story collections by writer

Stage and screen
For categorizing stage and screen works by contributor, the format is: "[Works] by [person]".

– – –

Name of the artist
The name used should match the name of the biography article about the person, including any disambiguator, e.g. Category:Books by Peter Carey (novelist). The only exceptions are categories for visual arts, where the name used for the artist may instead match usage within the articles on the works; e.g. Category:Paintings by Sergei Ivanovich Osipov does not have to follow the article name Sergei Osipov (artist).

Works of art categories by subject
Category names of a subject should match the name for that subject within articles and citations (including spelling and capitalisation), rather than the name of the Wikipedia article on the topic. For example:
 * Category:Entombment of Christ in art and Category:Paintings of the Entombment of Christ, although the generic parent Category:Burial of Jesus follows the article Burial of Jesus
 * Category:Venus in art and Category:Temples of Venus etc, although the generic parent Category:Venus (mythology) follows the article Venus (mythology)