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:Would also like to point out some pages actually have longer titles now <.< [[User:Sith Venator|<span style="color:green">Sith-venator Wavingstrider</span>]] [[File:Fett helmet.jpg|20px]] ([[User talk:Sith Venator|<span style="color:blue">Commlink</span>]]) 13:29, 11 December 2013 (EST) | :Would also like to point out some pages actually have longer titles now <.< [[User:Sith Venator|<span style="color:green">Sith-venator Wavingstrider</span>]] [[File:Fett helmet.jpg|20px]] ([[User talk:Sith Venator|<span style="color:blue">Commlink</span>]]) 13:29, 11 December 2013 (EST) | ||
::I've often found myself questioning the decision to rename the weapon and vehicle pages (yes, I know I originally supported this), particularly since redirects are a thing—we now end up with bizarre mishmashes of formal and colloquial terms, like "Type-25 plasma pistol" or "Type-1 energy sword", when the designation is really only useful when there are multiple models of the weapon and this is immediately relevant to the content at hand. Redirects would've saved us all the trouble in the first place, though users tend to have a bizarre fixation on holding the article titles as gospel everywhere and "correcting" term use that may be perfectly fine in the context into whatever the article title happens to be at the time—e.g. "[[plasma pistol]]" is preferable to [[Type-25 plasma pistol]] in a recounting of an event because the weapon's formal model designation isn't all that relevant there, while "[[Type-25 Directed Energy Pistol]]" would work the best in a more technical equipment listing. Since linking all of those things produces the same result, i.e. a user clicking on the link will be led to the same page, there's no reason to homogenize the names in every context to match the current title. | |||
::@Subtank: While I would prefer putting the variant's name first (as in "Variant-class MJOLNIR", which is used even in technically-oriented material), thus solving the search issue, "MJOLNIR/Variant" is also fine by me as long as we get this thing implemented. --[[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> 02:25, 12 November 2014 (EST) | |||