Name the Concept in the Singular

A concept page is named in the singular — because the page at a name is the meaning of every link that points to it, and the singular is the concept itself; the plural is only many of it.

Cell. Quest. Story. Flow. Not Cells, Quests, Stories. The reason is not tidiness but meaning: every link is a claim about what a word means, and the place it lands is where that meaning lives. A plural name quietly says a group of these where the concept was wanted, and a body that has both ends up with two homes for one idea and a slow divergence between them (One canonical home per concept · Link concepts, not coordinates · Semantic Capture).

The plural is written by piping — [[Cell|Cells]] — so the sentence reads naturally and the link still lands on the concept. That single move is what lets prose stay human while the graph stays clean.

The exceptions are real and few: names where the plural or the collective is the concept. The First Three Percent, The 300, the Milestones, the Cycles of Growth, the Stories of Transformation. These keep their true names, because what is being pointed at is the group (The Twenty · The Two Hundred · Naming Forms).

New pages follow the convention; the existing wiki is brought to uniformity progressively rather than in one sweep — which is the canon's usual posture toward its own inconsistencies (Progressive canonization · Current Best Understanding · Weave, don't delete).

It is held as a current best practice and belongs to The LIØNSBERG Book of Conventions, with two companions doing adjacent work: Link concepts, not coordinates, which says a link should point at a meaning rather than at a location, and The Wiki Reflects the Present, which says a page carries only the present sense of its concept. All three are guards against the same failure — a name whose meaning has quietly drifted away from what points at it (Semantic Capture · Drift).

Also called: the singular rule Stands on: Naming · Language · The LIØNSBERG Book of Conventions Opens onto: One canonical home per concept · Link concepts, not coordinates · The Wiki Reflects the Present · Semantic Capture · Naming Forms · Neologism · Progressive canonization · A Word on Words In play: the Workshop — applied whenever a page is born Sources: Name the Concept in the Singular (root page, canon-grade — the rule, the reason, the piping form, and its own exceptions; a convention of the Book of Conventions) · The Wiki Reflects the Present (root page, canon-grade) · lionsberg.wiki: Name the Concept in the Singular Open: One inbound link for a convention that governs the naming of every page in the corpus. · The canon carries roughly thirty singular/plural name pairs at its root that this convention would resolve, and the progressive cleanup has not begun.