Forum:Noble Prize

I suggest we make it policy that all noble families be referred to as "House _________". Currently, there seems to be no coherent format for referencing nobles. Using the "House" prefix immediately lets the reader know the family is nobility or else an extremely important family of commoners. The "House" prefix would also be appropriate for commoner houses that are explicitly referred to as a "House". Just my two coppers. Boo Too - &#34;Go for the eyes!&#34; (talk) 00:11, June 20, 2013 (UTC)


 * Darkwynters and I discussed this not long ago at User talk:BadCatMan. My view was:
 * Unfortunately, noble families tend to have different names in different cultures. Some are "House Kardashian", others may be "Kardashian House", or "Clan Kardashian", or just "the Kardashians", and so on. For example, Clan Battlehammer and so on for the dwarves. Changing them to a certain style would lose the flavour.
 * So I think it would be best just to use the official names given in the sources, if they are given, or the standard format for the culture. Say if most drow noble families of Menzoberranzan are House Do'Urden and so on, then a new noble family called the McSweeneys ("very old established family") could safely be assumed to be called House McSweeney. If there's no official name given, then say "the Kardashians".
 * And so on. A lot of the noble families already have established name formats, varying by culture, and it would be inaccurate or confusing to try to make these uniform across-the-board. Like a House Battlehammer, for example. It should only be uniform by culture, like all nobles families of Cormyr have this name, and all nobles families of Menzoberranzan have that name. — BadCatMan (talk) 01:57, June 20, 2013 (UTC)


 * How about ALL human houses use House first... plus drow, for dwarves, we use clan, and if it is strange nation, they use the rest, but I agree with Boo, the Cormyrian nobles and Waterdeep should use House... I understand what you are saying BadCat, (plus, I like structure) but maybe at least a few rules would help with the organization of these... ahhh organizations aka houses :) Thoughts? Darkwynters (talk) 17:48, June 20, 2013 (UTC)


 * I think we should stick to the official names given in the sources and add REDIRECT pages as needed. Redirects show up in the search suggestions as target of the redirect, so users will learn the correct terms quickly and not be frustrated by an empty search result. Authors can use whatever designation they wish as long as it links to the correct page. What do you think, sirs?&mdash;Moviesign (talk) 18:15, June 20, 2013 (UTC)


 * My only concern is the categories created from the Organization infobox... such as Category:Members of House Kendrick... but I guess... Members of the Kendricks or Members of the Kendrick family (Would family be capitalized?) would be okay... redirects would be cool... but this will not help the organization categories... Overall, I just want wiki rules, which I will follow, even though I like uniformity... I am torn by official terms for these groups... AHHH :) Darkwynters (talk) 18:32, June 20, 2013 (UTC)