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

As an admin, I like to try and keep this wiki clean and consistent as much as possible. In doing that, a couple of users and I have tried to clean up character pages by deciding which of each character's names to put in the opening paragraph of their page and which names to put in their infobox. I thought I had come up with a simple way to do this, but that caused questions to arise. We decided upon NOT listing names in both the infobox and the opening paragraph, but we're not sure exactly what to list where. So, I want to know what other users think.

QUESTION 1:

Should ALL previous "legal" names be listed in the opening paragraph (the old way it was on this wiki)? This looks cluttered when you get someone like Skye Chandler-Quartermaine, whose entire name has changed many times.

or

Should the characters' names that are too different from their current name be listed as aliases in the infobox? (Like it is currently on Skye Chandler-Quartermaine's page.  We thought that if the name changed more than just the surname/last name, that it should be in the infobox only.)

QUESTION 2 (if you chose option 2 above):

Do we need to differentiate between former legal names and made up aliases in the infobox, and how should we do that? For example, Kristina Corinthos-Davis's page currently has Kristina Ashton, Kristina Davis and Kristina Corinthos as aliases. Ashton and Davis were at one time her legal last name, but Corinthos by itself never was. Should we label those former legal names the way I did (with birth name, etc)?

QUESTION 3:

Should we list character's aliases that are only part of their last name. For example, should we list Molly Davis as an alias for Molly Lansing-Davis, or Lulu Falconeri as an alias for Lulu Spencer-Falconeri?

or

Can it be assumed (by the reader/user) that a character with a hyphenated last name might occasionally be called by one last name or the other?

QUESTION 4:

What do you think of the 2 new fields I added to the infobox (like on the Michael Corinthos page)? I added birthname and legalname to yield "Birth name" and "Previous legal name(s)." This would only be used if these names are not listed in the page's opening paragraph (if the name is not exactly like their current name, if more than just their last name changed). 