Care should be taken in giving a title to an article. In deciding on how precisely to word the title, some general rules that should be borne in mind:
In a title, prefer the more common of two or more names for a thing, unless one of the less common titles is for some clear reason clearly more appropriate. Thus our music section may prefer to title an article about the orchestral instrument as cello, not violincello; but we may use automobile rather than car due to the ambiguity of the latter. Bear in mind that, for searching purposes, all variants on names should be in the Nupedia database as keywords. Bear in mind, too, that article subtitles may list alternative names or spellings associated with a topic.
Ambiguous words in titles are to be disambiguated with parenthetical clarifications. Thus: Athens (Greece) and Athens (Georgia, U.S.A.). Also: Madonna (popular singer) and Madonna (Virgin Mary).
Subtopics of more general topics are to be indicated without the use of commas. Thus: history of morality, not morality, history of (or history of morals--that's up to our cultural historians to decide); nineteenth-century German drama, not drama, nineteenth-century German. In an online encyclopedia, articles that are found by searching a database rather than looking an article up in an alphabetically-arranged volume, there is no need for rearranging titles in this way.
Similarly, names of persons should be stated with first names first and last names last, as follows: George Washington; Sir Walter Scott; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Catherine the Great.
The words for things given in article titles should be the common
words for the things in the language in which the article is written. Thus, for articles in English: use "Rome," not "Roma"; use "Avicenna," not "Ibn Sina." When articles are translated into other languages, titles will also be translated, of course. Also, titles in other languages may be indicated in the articles themselves and as alternate titles (as per the above discussion)--but only if relevant for some special reason.
Avoid creating two topics that are, conceptually, closely related. The point here is to avoid confusion and duplication of effort. An example should help. Ethics is a subcategory of philosophy and will certainly be a topic (and probably a subcategory). So, perhaps, the topic morality should not also be created, except as part of a distinct topic such as history of morality or an article about the state of morality in the contemporary world. Alternatively, we might have an article explaining the meaning of 'morality' as understood by philosophers and other groups, concluding with a prominent link to the article on ethics for more in-depth exploration of morality. Topics should not be created for alternate designations for a single place, person, etc.; it's either Cicero or Tully, or perhaps even better, Marcus Tullius Cicero.