Forum:CT Archive/"Yoda's species" vs. "Unknown tridactyl species"

Currently, Yoda's species is described in an article titled Unknown tridactyl species, with "Unidentified tridactyl species", "Unknown Species (Yoda, Yaddle, and Vandar Tokare)", "Yoda's race", "Yoda's species", and variants used as redirects. Talk:Unknown tridactyl species contains several requests to move the article to another title. I've suggested Yoda's species a couple of times there, for the following reasons:


 * 1) Many people have said that describing the species as an "unknown tridactyl species" is more "encyclopedic." On the other hand, having three fingers on each hand is one of his least important and distinctive features.  The only species I could think of offhand which are named for their number of toes are the three-toed and two-toed sloths, where the number of toes actually serves to distinguish the two types.  Are there some four-fingered creatures who Yoda's species is distinguished from mostly by the anatomy of their hands?  Are Yoda's people the only three-fingered aliens in the galaxy?  (Besides, Yoda apparently has more than three toes per foot, so "tridactyl" is only half-accurate.)


 * 1) The New Essential Guide to Alien Species is written as an in-universe document (though, unlike its predecessor, no IU author is specifically identified), and it uses "Yoda's species" as the title for the entry. Meanwhile, I'm unaware of any IU sources which use the term "tridactyl species."  Our somewhat Byzantine rules for naming articles suggest using the "most commonly known name in universe."  It also prefers full names to nicknames, but the full name of this species is not known.


 * 1) No one seems to like the "Google hits" argument which crops up whenever there's a discussion of page titles, but casual fans unaware of Wookieepedia are probably more likely to find this article by searching for "Yoda's species" than by guessing whatever characteristic we've decided Yoda's species should be named for, and googling for that.

Note: I am putting this move request in a CT rather than on the article talk page, because so many articles refer to Yoda or Yoda's species that a move would amount to a fairly substantial change to the site as a whole. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 19:16, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Move to Yoda's species

 * 1) And who uses the word "tridactyl" anyway? &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 19:16, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Keep at "Unknown tridactyl species" or "Unidentified tridactyl species"
Comment: Forum:Unnamed, unknown, nameless will probably mean the article needs to be put at "unidentified" anyway. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 19:16, 29 March 2008 (UTC)