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:::You may have noticed that I've recently shied away from my obsession with avoiding redirects. I now accept that they can be our friends. Anyway, I agree that simplifying our article nomenclature would be for the best. The "Variant-class MJOLNIR" setup would work nicely since it's often used in official media these days. However, given the ''H4EVG''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s clarification that "MJOLNIR" is the project and "Mjolnir" is the armor (mirroring the SPARTAN/Spartan dichotomy) it may be preferable to render armor titles as "Variant-class Mjolnir"; frankly, I think "Variant-class Mjolnir armor" flows a just teensy bit better. --[[User:Braidenvl|<span style="color:gray">'''''Our vengeance is at hand.'''''</span>]] [[File:Gravemind.svg|14px]] ([[User talk:Braidenvl|<span style="color:gray">Talk to me.</span>]]) 09:10, 12 November 2014 (EST) | :::You may have noticed that I've recently shied away from my obsession with avoiding redirects. I now accept that they can be our friends. Anyway, I agree that simplifying our article nomenclature would be for the best. The "Variant-class MJOLNIR" setup would work nicely since it's often used in official media these days. However, given the ''H4EVG''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s clarification that "MJOLNIR" is the project and "Mjolnir" is the armor (mirroring the SPARTAN/Spartan dichotomy) it may be preferable to render armor titles as "Variant-class Mjolnir"; frankly, I think "Variant-class Mjolnir armor" flows a just teensy bit better. --[[User:Braidenvl|<span style="color:gray">'''''Our vengeance is at hand.'''''</span>]] [[File:Gravemind.svg|14px]] ([[User talk:Braidenvl|<span style="color:gray">Talk to me.</span>]]) 09:10, 12 November 2014 (EST) | ||
::::If it means we're soon going to have articles such as "Plasma pistol", "Needler", "Mongoose", "Lich" and so on, then I'm all for it. As long as there are no other variants of course, otherwise it'll stay "M392 DMR", for example. Same for the Mjolnir armors, though my own favorite would be "Mjolnir Example armor" (somewhat similar to [[ODST armor]]), i.e. "[[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/R variant|Mjolnir Recon armor]]", "[[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/EOD variant|Mjolnir EOD armor]]",... along with "[[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor|Mjolnir armor]]", "[[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark VI|Mjolnir Mark VI armor]]", "[[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN2)|Mjolnir (GEN2) armor]]", etc. My main concern with your suggestions is that: First, the forward slash (i.e. "Mjolnir/Recon") may be awkward in an article, since it's a mixture of formal and informal naming scheme; Second, "Recon-class Mjolnir armor" —though an interesting technical term that could become the "official" bold name in the article, in my opinion— is still not always very practical when you're placing it in an article, i.e. anywhere where the technicality of the term is unneeded. (For the same reason, we would, as of now, almost never really call the plasma pistol the "Type-25 plasma pistol" outside of a technical section.) [[User:Imrane-117|Imrane-117]] ([[User talk:Imrane-117|talk]]) 18:50, 13 November 2014 (EST) | |||