Forum:CT Archive/Clone trooper names vs. numbers

This proposal is pretty simple: move clone troopers from their letter/number distinctions to their chosen names. For example, CC-1119 would be moved to Appo. Obviously, if a name is not known, the trooper wouldn't be moved. There are several reasons I think this would make sense:


 * 1) Our policy is to go by the latest given name, which their chosen names obviously would be.
 * 2) In the cases of Sith Lords, we use their Darth names over their original names; I think this is pretty much the same situation.
 * 3) In every case I have seen, characters (including the troopers themselves) refer to them by their new names. How many times have you read Bly being called "CC-5052" or Alpha being called "Alpha-17"?
 * 4) We already have N-10 moved to Jaing Skirata.

Change to this new policy

 * 1) Kuralyov 03:08, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) It would make articles much easier to find on lists and categories rather than memorizing their id numbers. Definatley.&mdash; Darthtyler Talk 03:34, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Greyman ( Paratus ) 03:36, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Almost nowhere are they commonly identified by their numbers. - Graestan  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( This party's over ) 03:38, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) This makes excellent sense. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Talk page ) 05:47, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) The search function already takes into account clones' given names. Why not make it official?--Goodwood 06:12, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Leave the way it is

 * 1) -- Reignfire 03:15, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Comments

 * I think we should leave it. I do see your point that their names are used more often than their numbers, but the fact is their numbers are their given names and the names they use are just nicknames. -- Reignfire 03:25, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * And my point is that they're not just nicknames. In the Republic comics the Jedi are adamant about the troopers taking on official names to become more like people. In Cestus Deception, Nate is Nate and not N-98. Etc etc. Kuralyov 03:27, 28 July 2007 (UTC)