Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-16461120-20160218162200/@comment-1713281-20160312231338

I appear to have missed this entire discussion, which seems to have already reached a (partial?) conclusion, but I'm going to chime in anyway.

I think that the naming conventions were overly cumbersome at times, and I agree with updating them to a uniform setting, but I have to voice that anything really more than updating all the clone pages to a simple, uniform setting is a bit overboard. For instance, the changing of characters to "common" name over the previous standard of "birth name", with few exceptions, seems like a bad idea to me, if only for opening the door to creating more headache and user debates on what name to use and when to use it. Beauty may be in the simplicity, but we're not a work of art, we're an encyclopedia. Standards and uniformity are a given. I also don't see an issue in un-SEO-ing page names for the popular characters, but some of the other ideas thrown around (the removal of Earth-616 from page titles) is just more work for minimal reward.

TL;DR, I think we need a standard across the board, and updating the clones to simpler, uniform standards is a good start, but the changes from birth name to "common" name is an absolutely horrid idea. I won't fight over the common name thing if I'm in the minority, but I will say that we need to start making these change known to the user-base immediately to minimize any confusion or nonconstructive editing to the new names.