Wikipedia:WikiProject Belgium/Castle, country house, château and kasteel naming conventions

This is a guideline on naming articles on a castle, country house, palace, château or kasteel.

Note that:
 * 1) Both the Dutch word kasteel and the French word chateâu refer both to fortified defensive buildings (castles proper) and to stately aristocratic homes (chateâu, manor houses or country houses).
 * 2) As a result, it is common to see both types of building translated into English as 'castle', although many of them are not castles proper.
 * 3) Combined with the complication that some aristocratic homes were once intended for defence, it is difficult to separate them.

How to name the articles:
 * 1) Keep the local name. Example: Kasteel van Arenberg, Château de Seneffe
 * 2) If it is a château (stately residence, the French term is the normal one in English), describe it as such on the article's page.
 * 3) Obvious fortified defensive buildings (castles proper) may be called 'castle' if desired. Example: Gravensteen
 * 4) Grand buildings with obvious connections to royalty may be called 'palace'. Example: Royal Palace of Laeken