Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-122657-20130529193009

So KalKent and I had a difference of opinion about a topic and wanted to get the collective admin feedback to clear it up. Please review the situation as described below and vote in the subsequent poll. Feel free to extrapolate on your viewpoint in comments. Thanks!

The Crimson Dynamo of Earth-4400 appeared in an Exiles story where the individual was never specifically named. Our naming conventions state, "Most well known codename is better than the latest, and the real name is better than the alias, even if it should be more complete."

Because the team the character was in consisted of other Iron Man villains like Titanium Man and Gremlin, and those versions were the originals of their aliases, Kal figured the same would be applied to this Crimson Dynamo, and the page should therefore be named Anton Vanko.

I hesitate to name characters who aren't identified specifically because I feel it's inaccurate. In this specific case, this Crimson Dynamo's armor is different than any other Dynamo's in any other Universe. So to me, we don't know if this is even a man or a woman, let alone specifically Anton Vanko.

So we may have discussed it before, but not gotten into the nitty-gritty details like this one.

What should this page be named? Anton Vanko (Earth-4400) Crimson Dynamo (Earth-4400) Anton Vanko (Crimson Dynamo) (Eart-4400) Something else I'll specify in the comments

In general: How should we name a character who has a common codename but isn't obviously any specific version of that name? Use the codename Assume the most common real name Use the most common real name and the codename together Something else I'll specify in the comments  