Category:Surname disambiguation templates

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This is a category for templates that help disambiguate family names. These include both page-top inline notes about name order and the like, as well as tables of various spellings and transliterations.

The pages listed in this category are meant to be navbox (navigational) templates.

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This category is for templates used at the top of biographical articles to disambiguate or clarify family names. The use cases generally fall into five types:

Family names that come before given names, as is common throughout much of Asia (as in "Fu Che-wei")
Surnames that do not use entirely plain English or Western European characters, including names with accent marks in them, but are often approximately transliterated to use the 26-letter English alphabet (as in "Bogdan Wołkowski", often imprecisely transliterated "Wolkowski")
Surnames that use some completely different character set than Western European (e.g. Cyrillic or Chinese), transliterated into Western European (i.e. with diacritics) or the unadorned 26-letter English alphabet (as in "Пу́тин", transliterated "Putin"). Such templates should not be used in this case if the non-Western representation of the whole name is known, since this should be given in the article immediately after the transliterated name. However if the transliteration is accented Western European and not plain English characters, a template of this sort may be used to distinguish them from each other. (For example, Chinese uses diacritics in some styles of transliteration, but not others.)
Multi-part surnames that can be mistaken for a separate middle name and surname by readers unfamiliar with such names (as in "Johann von Burgen")
Single-part surnames that can be mistaken for multi-part if juxtaposed with a middle name that is identical to parts of multi-part surnames from other parts of the world (as in "Lee Van Corteza")