Forum:CT Archive/Naming conventions: Stage names?

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Joh Yowza's been moved back and forth a couple of times. Bearing in mind that our current guidelines state that we should use the "most commonly known name in universe, sans titles, with later names preferred to earlier names, and full names preferred to partial names or nicknames.", and that we have interpreted this to use Mon Calamari (planet) rather than Dac, Greivous rather than Qymaean jai Sheelal, but Mitth'raw'nuruodo rather than Thrawn, the questions are:


 * 1) Is Joh Yowza merely a short form of his original name?  I say it isn't.


 * 1) Is a stage name a legitimate full name, or is it merely a alias?  As I said on the talk page, "Short of finding the guy's landspeeder operation license or musician's union card, the fact that everyone calls him Joh Yowza is proof enough for me that he adopted the new name."


 * 1) If and only if people think we should move the article back (and it was 4-1 for Joh Yowza up until Rodtheanimegod4ever's move), does this mean that all characters who end up almost exclusively using a stage name or other alias that could be interpreted as a full name should be moved?
 * For that matter, are there examples other than Max Rebo?

Comments? &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 01:46, 26 September 2006 (UTC)