Forum:Naming an article subject with no official name

This notice has to do with various things within the Metroid Universe that currently have no official name ascribed to them. A special naming system has been devised to give uniform names to these kinds of articles. The naming system used to assign names to these nameless subjects is described below. A is placed behind one of these acronyms to identify the order in which these are named (with this acronym-style naming system.)


 * UCB # - Unknown Celestial Body (This is used to name astronomical objects with no official name, including stars, planets, nebulas, astroid belts, etc.)
 * ULF # - Unknown Life Form (This is used to name creatures with no official name. ULF is used rather than "U.C.", to differentiate between "Unknown Celestial Body". This does not include simple bacteria-like organisms.)
 * USLF # - Unknown Simple Life Form (This is used to name simple multi-cellular organisms on the microscopic scale with no official name.)
 * UAM # - Unknown Artificial Mechanism (This is used to name robots or technologies with no official name.)
 * US # - Unknown Substance (This is used to name substances or materials with no official name.)
 * UMS # - Unknown Miscellaneous Subject (This is for naming anything else with no official name.)

If any other significant naming acronyms are needed, (meaning that more than one thing falls into the proposed name category) discuss them on the talk page. Armantula513 [ADMIN] (Talk&bull;Contribs) 09:15, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Be sure to include alternative names of the unknown subject in any new articles. This will help to identify the subjects when no pictures are present.
 * Be sure to spell out the acronyms when used in other articles, or use a more well-known name for the subject if possible. Remember that all previous names still link to the articles using this naming system.
 * Articles are assigned numbers according to their occurrence in a particular category (UCB, ULF, etc.) in the entire Wiki, not just according to occurrence in a particular video game. For example, if there is a ULF 1 for Metroid Fusion, this will be the only ULF 1 in the entire Wiki. There will not be seperate ULF 1s for every Metroid game.