User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4139960-20121217140825/@comment-24894325-20160320171649

It's an old discussion, but there is a new controversy that seems almost like the cases discussed but with a twist. So far the discussed examples include The case that I'm proposing to explicitly codify in this thread is when
 * a character with no name in a story and some name only in the novelisation, in which case "some kind of name wins out", and
 * with first name in a story and last name only in the novelisation, in which case "T:ONE NAME takes precedence".
 * a character is given last name in a story with the first name appearing only in the novelisation.

Case in point is Harry Osgood, only recently renamed from Osgood (The Seeds of Death). I strongly suspect that it should be treated the same way as when the last name appears only in the novelisation. But it would be great to have a confirmation.