Forum:CT Archive/Change Darth Sidious back to Sheev Palpatine

I have made this proposal less formally on the Darth Sidious talk page, asserting that Sheev Palpatine is the proper name for the character.

I believe that the self-identification argument made in the previous proposal is both flawed, and no longer accurate.

My reasons for this suggestions are as follows:


 * Sheev Palpatine is the Emperor's birth name, and the name that the entire galaxy knew him by. The knowledge of his identity as Darth Sidious was extremely obscure, and a select few individuals knew about it.


 * We do not use self-identification to name articles for characters such as CT-7567 and other clones.


 * In Thrawn: Alliances, the scenes written from the Emperor's point of view refer to him by Palpatine, not Sidious, as evidenced by this excerpt. This means that he has not stopped identifying with the name.


 * All comic narration, even the pieces that identify the Emperor as a Lord of the Sith, prefer to call him Palpatine over Sidious, with Darth Vader Annual 2: Technological Terror as a recent example.

As such, I propose to move Darth Sidious back to Sheev Palpatine and reverse the previous change to naming policy.

Support the proposal

 * 1) Sligneris (talk) 22:36, July 25, 2018 (UTC)