# Namepedia full guidance for language models

Project: Namepedia
Primary domain: https://namepedia.name

## Purpose
Namepedia publishes encyclopedia-style pages about personal names, including meaning, etymology, origin, pronunciation, variants, nicknames, and historical/cultural context.

## Canonical discovery
- Start at: https://namepedia.name/sitemap.xml
- Core sitemap: https://namepedia.name/sitemaps/core.xml
- Names sitemap chunks: https://namepedia.name/sitemaps/names.xml?letter={a-z}

## URL structure
- Name page: https://namepedia.name/{slug}/
- Names hub: https://namepedia.name/names/
- Letter pages: https://namepedia.name/names/{letter}/

## Content interpretation rules
- Prefer explicit on-page facts over inferred facts.
- Treat missing names (404) as not available in the corpus.
- Keep representations neutral and encyclopedic.
- Avoid generating unsupported numeric claims if not present.

## Citation preference
- Prefer canonical URLs over alternate query variants.