User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-5617235-20130504054126

I've noticed lately that the infobox field "Main aliases" is often being used in ways that I'm not sure would qualify as "main aliases."

For example, over at Strom and Loxx, a pair of (totally unrelated) Sontarans, we see that their "main aliases" are "Commander Strom" and "Commander Loxx," which aren't nicknames or alternate names so much as titles. It's a very similar situation at pages such as Brian Carstairs, Barman (The Wormery), Boemina, Stella Stark... and that's not even the full first page of search results for "main aliases."

There's also a second way that I feel "main aliases" is being misused, and that's when the alias in question is substantially different for their real name, but the alias isn't a main alias. I see this happening less often, but it still bugs me. For example, according to the article on Hex, one of his main aliases is "Nurse Ken." A quick search reveals that he was referred to by that name exactly once, by Ace in scene 77 of AUDIO: Black and White. This also briefly happened at The Crooked Man, where it was stated he had main aliases "The Bogeyman" and "Old Romeo," but these were deleted by CzechOut.

So, here are my questions: is there a reasonable justification for people putting titles/rarely-used nicknames in the "main aliases" infobox field? And if there isn't, how do you propose we deal with this?

Thanks, Bubblecamera