I probably should've explained myself a little more clearly initially, but these are my reasons (and probably those of some other editors of this page) for using INNs. BANs are now the same as INNs, thus the INN spellings aciclovir, valaciclovir and famciclovir seem justified. He used 'acyclovir', 'valaciclovir' and 'famciclovir' because these were the British Approved Names (BAN) at the time (when the UK was in the process of full transition to INNs). This contribution was in British English. Even if you use the 'all else fails' option, the first major contribution to this article was edit 8404076 by User:Jfdwolff.(And incidentally, even the USAN is 'famciclovir'). Looking through the 'What links here' on each of those articles, it seems the general consensus is to link the INN – it simply doesn't make sense to use the United States Adopted Name (USAN) when article titles are INNs. Because of that policy, article titles for the drugs in question are the International Nonproprietary Names (INN): aciclovir, valaciclovir and famciclovir.

Firstly, you're correct in that I was referring to the Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(chemistry)#Drug-related_articles.

Otherwise, I intend to follow the policy at the manual of style and return the spelling used in this article by 'following the spelling style preferred by the first major contributor (that is, not a stub) to the article.' Gentgeen 02:20, 2 June 2006 (UTC) The Manual of Style says that use of the 'style preferred by the first major contributor' only applies where 'all else fails'.

If there is some other policy I'm not aware of, please let me know. A WikiProject established naming convention regulates where an article resides in the database, it does not establish what spelling is used in other articles, especially ones not covered by the WikiProject. The only thing I could find to support Techelf's idea of 'WP policy' was a naming convention at Wikipedia:WikiProject Drugs, which does establish a convention to use INN names for article titles, with redirects at the other accectped spellings. I checked WikiProject Medicine to see if there was any guideline on drug name usage, and found none.

I checked the style guide to see if any changes had happened recently that I was not aware of, and drug naming in articles is still not covered there. User:Techelf reverted a change I made to the article, about how to spell acyclovir, valacyclovir and famcyclovir, vaguely citing 'WP policy'.

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