Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-3418856-20140901102432/@comment-3418856-20140903055237

Okay, I feel there has been enough of a vote for me to make an executive decision. I know it's only been 24 hours though; so if you disagree, please let me know. Let's do the names this way:

Only put a character's previous legal names in the opening paragraph if only their last name changed. To test it, simply take their full current name and just switch out the last name; if this can be done, then keep the previous name(s) in the opening paragraph. For example, Caroline Leigh "Carly" Jacks (née Benson, formerly Quartermaine, Corinthos, Alcazar)  In contrast, for example, Christina Gail Baldwin would have Christina Devlin in the infobox because she was never Christina Gail Devlin, the test doesn't work.

We're also going to keep the 2 fields for Birth name (birthname) and Previous legal names(s) (legalname) to differentiate them from aliases (names that were never their legal name).

Also, please list partial last names that the character has sometimes been called (or used themself) in the alias field.

To make a mass wiki-wide change like this, I typically go to the characters category and start with A and work my way through to make sure I don't miss any. I can start doing this, but I don't know if it'll be tonight (it's actually morning now). Please let me know if you have any further questions or comments. Also, in implementing this, please let me know if you run into any weird situations; especially if you're not sure what to do or if something looks or sounds odd. Thanks!