Thread:ADour/@comment-5350299-20130904140930/@comment-1895174-20130904223719

I will, for transparency's sake, repost my response to Spencerz thread on my wall:

The issue is that certain things listed as aliases are not aliases. By definition, an alias is an assumed name, a false name someone goes by.(Free Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, Oxford Dictionaries)

In the case of, say, Peggy Carter, "Peggy Carter" is her name, so it is not, by definition, an alias. Neither is "Agent Carter", "Agent Peggy Carter", or whatever other variation of that may exist since titles are considered part of someone's name. Same could be said of Happy Hogan, Pepper Potts, or Erik Selvig. "Happy" and "Pepper", although a bit unusual, are still offered as the character's first name in the same way that "Peggy" is, while "Dr. Selvig" (or some variation of that) is by no means an alias for Erik Selvig.

If having "Dr. Erik Selvig" on top of the infobox could only be done by throwing it in the "Current Alias" section, I could understand it. However, we do have a tool so that doesn't have to happen. Instead, there is a simple fix, since all you have to do is throw the following in there:
 *  | Title = 

It doesn't matter if "Current Alias" trumps "Title" or the other way around, since there shouldn't ever be a case where both fields should be filled.

By the way, I'm not doing anything near new here. I've done this on every character page that I've edited where this is an issue.