Wikipedia:WikiProject London/Naming conventions

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Geographic

  • Localities: when the only locality with the name is in London (or if the London locality has primacy of meaning) the article should just be called Bethnal Green
    • If it needs to be disambiguated with another article the suffix ", London" should be added e.g. Wimbledon, London
    • In rare cases where two localities within London shares the same name, the suffix should be the borough e.g. Hayes, Bromley and Hayes, Hillingdon
    • Postal geography (post towns, postcode districts etc.) are not used for article naming or disambiguation

Buildings, structures, things...

Transport

Served by suffix Example
National Rail only
(this includes Elizabeth line and London Overground)
railway station Fenchurch Street railway station
Woolwich railway station
Hackney Wick railway station
Romford railway station
London Underground only tube station Aldgate East tube station
Tramlink only tram stop Addiscombe tram stop
DLR only DLR station Westferry DLR station
Any combination of the above station Stratford station

Lists

Categories

  • Categories covering all of London use the form "Category:X of/in London" e.g. and
    • If broken down by borough it takes the form "Category:X of/in the London Borough of " e.g. and
    • 'London Borough' becomes 'City' for Westminster and 'Royal Borough' for Greenwich, Kensington and Chelsea and Kingston upon Thames