Thread:The Many-Angled One/@comment-1409931-20160211121728/@comment-61022-20160212212841

AnnabellRice wrote: In my opinion, there shouldn't be any exceptions. The policy should be consistent. I believe the potentially misnamed articles should be renamed and have asked for additional Admin opinions on the matter.

You surely would admit that there's no way that the Sisters are more defined than the hundreds of appearances of Kaine or Ben Reilly, yet they're not exempt, nor should they be.

If the conventions needs to be changed, that's fine, but it shouldn't be littered with arbitrary exemptions.

My comments were general in nature as opposed to specifically about "The Sisters", I haven't read any stories that feature them. So the specifics of that arc I'm not familiar with.

However, from the sounds of it, there is precedence here for the people who believe these characters should be named Belladonna, Zelda... whatever...

The Stepford Cuckoos is the best rebuttal I have against the specific argument here. The Cuckoos are all clones of Emma Frost. Yet they also do not follow this naming convention. Because they are commonly referred to by their adopted names. An average fan who doesn't know that Esme Cuckoo is a clone of Emma Frost is going to have a harder time looking up Emma Frost (Esme Cuckoo) (Earth-616).

Reviewing there is not a lot of consistency in terms of clones who have different names being categorized by the originators name, and a lot of them are because there are alternate reality versions of the same clone and people just used the same naming scheme for that one character.

If you wanted to do a comparison, the pages named by the conventions versus the ones named by their common nomenclature are about even (if you exclude alternate reality versions of characters and clones that don't go by an alternate name).

And really, if you wanted to argue using the Laura Kenney name that's not entirely accurate either. Her "birth name" if you will was X-23, and on top of that she is a clone of Wolverine.

So really, by the rules, if you're going to follow them to the letter you're going to name each page after the originator. James Howelett (Zelda) (Earth-616)... Which takes it back to what I was saying about being a balance between what is technically accurate and what makes for easy navigation.

Then there's the technical aspect: If someone is going to type in the name into the search bar, it's going to be less daunting to find the specific page they're looking for if typing in Laura Kenney or Peter Parker doesn't pull thousands of hits. The less typing someone has to do to find what they are looking for, the more user friendly the site is.