Board Thread:Shingeki no Kyojin Wiki/@comment-5774380-20150401073146/@comment-424719-20150425065104

Apologies for 'reviving' this discussion but I wasn't even aware it was ongoing.

I agree with the first point and am not even sure why it was raised before.

With no official name it is a very tricky situation. I believe that we should hold off on the page until such time that a canon name is revealed. We need to establish rules for this and not just allow subjective means to dictate what names sound 'silly' or not. To some, Goggles is much sillier than Kenny's Subordinate. We could have a random person make a very convincing case, based on convention, that we need to create a page titled Not-Annie or something. To me, that is out of place. My recommendation is to investigate other wikis and see what their response to this challenge is, and until that time we continue to rely on official names. I could see my way to providing an exception for UNIVERSAL fan agreement and the unlikelihood that a character will ever be named, Smiling Titan here being the example. However, that would need to be defined very narrowly and not open to much interpretation.

I disagree with a List of Minor Characters because it is subjective and not seen on other Anime/Manga Wikis. Every character in One Piece, regardless of their role, is given a page on the wiki. This way, we apply the rules evenly and are not having endless debates about why or why not Mrs. Ackerman is minor or not. Frankly, her status doesn't matter since all characters should have an article. By following this method, we avoid arguments and don't have to establish rules to try and make something objective, when it will always be subjective. No amount of rules or wordplay can convince some people that Uri Reiss is not a minor character.