@JohnTheGamer: Actually, no. They couldn't and can't. Moderators do not have the technical ability to rename objects, concepts, or locations. I've given up on making that point since people don't listen, but since you've made several such requests lately I suppose it bears repeating.
@LordAndrew: Okay, that's my bad then; it's hard to remember what mods can and can't do, especially after taking a "break" of sorts from editing. I'll try to remember that in the future.
@JohnTheGamer: Just remember, if you can add an alias then mods have those same rights. ;) Well, they've also got the ability to delete those pages, but they can't move them. And before the update a year ago aliases couldn't be added either. That update added alias fields to objects, concepts and locations, but they didn't lock it to mods only, and the ability to rename those pages wasn't granted to anyone. Admins can rename then presumably, because they had that ability before and I think they'd have noticed if it disappeared. :D
Charlie Macdonalds; rename to Charlie Macdonald. Silvia Christel; rename to Sylvia Christel, the correct spelling. Kimmy Howel; add a second l to her last name. Suzuki Superbikes; rename to Suzuki TT Superbikes Real Road Racing, it's full title.
101 Minigolf World needs to be changed to 101 MiniGolf World (the g needs to be capitalized). My source is the official press release from the developers.
Apparently proper capitalization isn't required anymore: in-game e-mail. Seems a valid concept, but we are so lazy as to avoid the shift key now? Does this bother anyone else? =P How about "In-Game E-mail" instead?
" Apparently proper capitalization isn't required anymore: in-game e-mail. Seems a valid concept, but we are so lazy as to avoid the shift key now? Does this bother anyone else? =P How about "In-Game E-mail" instead? "
Yeah, people don't seem to understand how titling things works. I've often seen people create biographies on Wikipedia without any capitalization. Biographies. For people. Using their names, which are always supposed to be capitalized. Not much you can do except point out to them the correct method of capitalization.
It can be a bit more troublesome on Giant Bomb than on most other wikis though for several reasons: A) The first letter in the title isn't automatically capitalized. Most MediaWiki installations automatically capitalize it. B) We use title case for page names, rather than the sentence case that they may be expecting. C) Only moderators and staff can move pages to better names. D) Only staff can move objects, concepts, and locations to better name. And unfortunately those are the types most often misnamed, likely a result of both points A and B.
He certainly doesn't think of himself as that man's son, he's made to hate him, actually. For that matter, at no point is he referred to by any name, we only know his first name is "Jack" because it's on the present in the opening cutscene. Change it to just "Jack" and make "Jack Ryan" an alias.
Free to Play should be renamed Free Online Games to make it more obvious that it is not the same thing as Free Games. Otherwise those two should just be merged.
" Free to Play should be renamed Free Online Games to make it more obvious that it is not the same thing as Free Games. Otherwise those two should just be merged. "
Free to play is an established term for that model. The real problem is the Free Games concept, which should be renamed to Freeware in order to avoid confusion with the completely different concept of free software.
Why? The character has no canon name, so one generic description is as good as another. I mean, people actually refer to you as 'vault dweller' in-game, so the only reason not to call the page that is that that name is already used to refer to the protagonist of the original Fallout. "Vault 101 Dweller" works just fine.
@Deusoma: Actually the canon name of the player character is The Lone Wanderer. Fallout 1's player character canon name was The Vault Dweller, Fallout 2's player character canon name was The Chosen One, and Fallout 3's player character canon name is The Lone Wanderer.
Edit:
In the Collector's Edition Fallout 3 Game of The Year Edition guide. The character profile for the character is "Lone Wanderer". So that is the characters canon name.
" Zelkova" (his proper name in English localizations) is misspelled as "Zalkova" in the current page. By the way, thanks for having a consolidated thread to make these requests!
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