Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20161213202224/@comment-61022-20161225043831

Artful Dodger wrote: Shortening Use of Parenthesis - I have been thinking about this for a while. Of course, there are good arguments on both sides, but I agree with Nausiated that we should stop using names in parenthesis.

Yes, there is a slight benefit in having a name in parenthesis. However, since a character's name is so easily clarified by a mouse over or a touch/click it becomes far less beneficial to have extra text in the list. The names in parenthesis are either too long, too short, incorrect, nicknames (Sam Wilson, not Samuel), missing information (like Earth-Designation), adding too much information (Col. Carol Danvers shows up regularly), or just confusing.

I did touch on it on those reasons in the mire of other reasons actually. And I agree. When you're dealing with so many inconsistencies, redundancies (Thor (Thor Odinson) anybody?) and exceptions being made, it just makes more sense to eliminate the practice.

I should also point out that our sister site the DC Database has also abandoned the practice as well. On the one hand, I think we should have our unique voice, but I think that also needs to have a balance, appearance-wise, to our most closely associated Wiki as well.