User blog:LilyLacreag/Current problems

Hi! As I annouced, my new blog post is here on Sunday, September 23.

For people, who don't know me - I'm LilyLacreag, I come from Slovakia and I'm currently No.1 at this wiki.

Why I'm writing this blog post at the moment? Because there are some problems and we must solve them. Everything has its order and rules. Please, follow the rules - otherwise there is a chaos and lot of unnecessary work.

So...

Names
Our biggest problem is names of characters. Every character page has three types of these names. First in the name of page, second in first sentence of article and third at the top of Infobox.

Name of the Page
Page name is simple and contains short form of name (James Blythe, Mary Vance, Jerry Meredith...). These names are more common. Please, don't use full name with nickname. You don't see such names at Wikipedia, do you? Simple name looks better.

Female names - Please, use their maiden names (Anne Shirley, not Anne Shirley-Blythe, Diana Barry, not Diana Wright...). However, some women are better known with their later names (Elizabeth Barry and Emily Harrison).

First sentence
At the beginning of the first sentence we write full name of character with nickname (James Matthew ,,Jem" Blythe). Females - First name, husband's surname and then (nee maiden name). (Bertha Marilla ,,Rilla" Ford (nee Blythe) )

Infobox
At the top of infobox we write only full name of character - females with maiden names. (Thomas Carlyle Meredith, Bertha Marilla Blythe...)

If it isn't need, please, don't rename character pages. Please, write their nicknames in A.K.A. section in infobox.

I don't have so much time. My priority is finish decades pages and timeline of World War I. Also, finish pages from August Anne of Windy Poplars month. But can't do that when I correct mistakes in the names etc.

Have a nice day!

LilyLacreag (talk) 12:19, September 23, 2012 (UTC)