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::::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)

:::::To clarify, simplifying the titles further is not exactly what I meant; I was merely noting that we could've kept our titles as they were in the first place because you might as well link to redirects like [[plasma pistol]] with no ill effects (as long as the redirects make sense and their numbers stay in acceptable limits). It's just that a lot of users tend to view the use of redirects as "wrong" somehow (I was one of them for a long time until I realized there's really no difference between linking a redirect and the actual page title). Redirects can also be useful when linking to subsections of pages; <nowiki>"[[human technology]]"</nowiki> is functionally identical to <nowiki>"[[Human#Technology|human technology]]"</nowiki>, just quicker to type and tidier looking when you're editing an article. --[[User:Jugus|Jugus]] ([[User talk:Jugus|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|Contribs]]) 09:17, 14 November 2014 (EST)

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	::::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)		::::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)

			:::::To clarify, simplifying the titles further is not exactly what I meant; I was merely noting that we could've kept our titles as they were in the first place because you might as well link to redirects like [[plasma pistol]] with no ill effects (as long as the redirects make sense and their numbers stay in acceptable limits). It's just that a lot of users tend to view the use of redirects as "wrong" somehow (I was one of them for a long time until I realized there's really no difference between linking a redirect and the actual page title). Redirects can also be useful when linking to subsections of pages; <nowiki>"[[human technology]]"</nowiki> is functionally identical to <nowiki>"[[Human#Technology\|human technology]]"</nowiki>, just quicker to type and tidier looking when you're editing an article. --[[User:Jugus\|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus\|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] \| [[Special:Contributions/Jugus\|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 09:17, 14 November 2014 (EST)