Board Thread:Policies/@comment-867021-20121204173530/@comment-1895174-20130113025900

I have a question about naming: How much should we assume when naming unnamed characters in, for lack of a better term, "side stories"? Essentially anything outside Earth-616 (i.e. What-If comics, film and television adaptations, etc.) Let me provide a hypothetical situation: Assume there is a what-if comic that takes place in Earth-TRNX. In this comic, there is a character that is clearly a the in-universe version of Wolverine; however, the character goes unnamed (by any of Earth-616 Wolverine's various names) throughout the comic. What would be the proper name for this character's page: Should we assume this character has the aliases and/or real name as the Earth-616 counterpart? While this situation in particular is unlikely, it could help in naming pages for characters in "side stories" who are only referred to by an alias, characters not referred to by a name other than their legal one (i.e. maiden names, full forms of diminutives), and characters who only make an unnamed, cameo appearance in the background. I can think of a few examples of such cases off the top of my head.
 * Wolverine (Earth-TRNX)
 * Wolverine (Logan) (Earth-TRNX)
 * James Howlett (Earth-TRNX)
 * or some variation of Unnamed [ Insert Specific Details Here ] (Earth-TRNX)