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e. As royalty and nobility often use titles rather than surnames, often change titles, and are often frequently referred to by names which are not unique, using a clear and consistent nomenclature can sometimes be difficult. This page contains a set of conventions for article titles that have been adopted through discussions between Wikipedia ...
As the guideline is biased towards Europe as is most of Wikipedia, and restricts its coverage of non-European monarchs to a few bullet points essentially saying "there is no convention, look at WP:AT ", I think this guideline's title should be changed to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (European royalty and nobility).
Hereditary titles, in a general sense, are nobility titles, positions or styles that are hereditary and thus tend or are bound to remain in particular families. Though both monarchs and nobles usually inherit their titles, the mechanisms often differ, even in the same country. The British crown has been heritable by women since the medieval era ...
For example, Burmese nationalist Aung San's parents were named Pha (ဖာ) and Suu (စု), both of which are single-syllable names. His birth name was Htain Lin ( ထိန်လင်း ), but he changed his name to Aung San ( အောင်ဆန်း ) later in life.
A classic example is Abbey theatre founder and Irish playwright, Lady Gregory. (She got her title through her marriage to Sir William Gregory, so it is a courtesy title, not indicative of a peerage. ) 100% of those who have heard of her would know her as Lady Gregory. 40% might cop on who Lady Augusta Gregory was. 10% Augusta Gregory (which I ...
<example> Our poor 13 year old sees the word "muon" and doesn't know what it is. So the 13 year old does one of two thing: 1) reads the sentence in which the word occurs in order to extract the context from the sentence, or 2) he clicks on muon and reads the first line of that article.</example>
Dey, title given to the rulers of the Regency of Algiers and Tripoli under the Ottoman Empire from 1671 onwards. Sardar, also spelled as Sirdar, Sardaar or Serdar, is a title of nobility (sir-, sar/sair- means "head or authority" and -dār means "holder" in Sanskrit and Avestan). The feminine form is Sardarni.
Ancient Egyptian royal titulary. The royal titulary or royal protocol is the standard naming convention taken by the pharaohs of ancient Egypt. It symbolised worldly power and holy might, also acting as a sort of mission statement for the duration of a monarch's reign (although sometimes it even changed during the reign).