Editing Help:Label (section)

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{{nutshell|A label is like a page title, but is the smallest unit of information that names an item (e.g. "Paris", not "Paris, France") | Labels are allowed to be ambiguous – they are disambiguated using {{ll|Help:Description|descriptions}} | Use the item's most common name, and only capitalize proper nouns}}
[[File:Wikidata label field.png|thumb|upright=1.5|Stockhub screenshot - label field highlighted]]
The '''label''' is the most common name that the {{ll|Help:Editing|item}} would be known by. It does not need to be unique, in that multiple items can have the same label, however no two items may have both the same label and the same {{ll|Help:Description|description}}. 

There is no requirement that an item's label be the same as the page name on its corresponding Wikimedia site. In fact there are several cases, discussed below, in which it is actually desirable for the Stockhub label to be different from the Wikimedia page title. The examples below are general examples. While they try to give guidance for the majority of cases, they are not [[:en:Bright-line rule|bright-line rules]]. If a compelling reason can be given, any of these guidelines can be bypassed. 

It was recognized very early on in the conception of this project that people with strong points of view might try and shift Stockhub labels, descriptions, and even data points to fit their own point of view. Stockhub is not a forum for pushing points of view, and should try to reflect information both accurately and neutrally. [[:en:Wikipedia:Edit warring|Edit warring]] over labels is not acceptable. 

Note that an item will have multiple labels in different languages. Labels in different languages may be unrelated to each other (one language uses a person's birth name as a label and another uses their pen name).  Including aliases means an item can have multiple labels in the same language. If there is something important about a particular name then that name should be in a statement as well as in the label, even if this looks like the same information is being given in two different ways - we have a lot of different properties for names of items.

Label must be no more than 250 characters long.