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Currently Wikipedia:Naming conventions (adjectives) states that article names should be at nouns, rather than at adjectives. In mathematics articles, this usually involves a noun like Bounded set in preference to an adjective like Bounded. However, adjectives like these often become perfect candidates for disambiguation pages -- as in this example. So the naming convention would require these to be at nouns, like Boundedness, that are rarely used (although they do exist). So some people (principally, I think, Oleg Alexandrov, but not only Oleg) think that these should be at adjective instead. This might apply outside mathematics (and anyway, some of these adjectives are used both inside and outside mathematics). There is already discussion on this matter at Talk:Boundedness (or Talk:Bounded, wherever it ends up); official naming convention discussion should probably be here. -- Toby Bartels 08:32, 2005 Mar 7 (UTC)