User talk:ThomasRWade

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Please do not move pages
Hi, unfortunately, I had to undo your edits based on Jack's other name being revealed. I understand where you're coming from and why you thought it was the right thing to do.

I am to tell you, it was not, not yet at least. First of all, on this wiki, only admins should move pages for reasons explained in detail at Thread:128198, entitled Please don't move pages yourself. Ordinary users should use the or  templates instead.

Note that you only updated two links out of many links to Gray and to Franklin and that you could not avoid the redirects.

One of the main reasons why only admins are allowed to move pages is because such moves have to both comply with the policies and to not impede the searchability functionality of the wiki. For this reason, it is a good practice to first discuss such moves. Note that I did not put a "speedy rename", the clear-cut-nothing-to-talk-about version. This is because there are truly things to discuss.

As the most obvious hurdle that would have to be cleared before the rename can go on, let me ask you: how do we know that Jack signed up to the agency under his real name? Or that the agency used his real name in their files? Establishing that requires a closer textual analysis of the audios and other multiple stories than just saying "Gray's last name is Thane because his brother used Thane at some point in his life". We still don't have Thane applied to Jack during his life with his father and brother.

Secondly, it may affect the ability to search the page if its title is based on a name with several spellings possible. "Gray" we know from credits. Thane? Not Thain? Are we sure. Again, research is in order.

At any rate, please do not move pages in the future. Use the one of the rename templates instead. Amorkuz ☎  19:56, June 18, 2017 (UTC)

Re: Gray Thane and Franklin Thane
There is a detailed explanation I provided to you personally right above this message at the time I did the move. If something is still unclear I'll be happy to explain.

On a completely separate note, I would also ask you to adhere to Tardis:Signature policy and sign your messages using ~. It is simple to do and is completely indispensable when one returns to a month-old conversation. Amorkuz ☎  12:06, June 23, 2017 (UTC)