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Merge with Multi

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I suggest merging this article with Multi. I am more used to the term "Alternate character" than Multi, so I propose merging to this article. Any objections? Clement Cherlin 01:19, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, I too have seen alternate/alt in much wider use than Multi, so I suggest the Multi article is merged here and turned into a disambig page (like someone suggests in Talk:Multi. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 08:49, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.139.196.72 (talkcontribs).
The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved per discussion. - GTBacchus(talk) 08:17, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]



Alternative characterAlternate character – Arguments have been made below; move remains contentious. Requesting a close of some kind. —chaos5023 (talk) 03:48, 12 July 2011 (UTC) This article was recently moved from Alternate character to Alternative character, in a a misapplication of WP:COMMONALITY. Since "alternate character" is the actual term in common use for this subject, it the proper name of the topic per WP:TITLE and particularly WP:COMMONNAME. (WP:COMMONALITY is meant to govern essentially discretionary choices of language use, mainly in article text, and I'd go so far as to say it should not be applied to article titles at all except when the title itself is essentially made-up, as with some list topics.) I propose that it be moved over redirect back to Alternate character, with Alternative character retained as a redirect.[reply]

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I've deactivated the template as no admin actions are needed at the moment. If you'd like more input, please list it at WP:RM instead. SmartSE (talk) 21:23, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – If anyone had actually bothered to read the policy WP:Article titles which contains WP:COMMONNAME, they would have seen that it is policy that American English is not preferred over British English just because more people speak American English. So this page should retain its current title per WP:COMMONNAME and WP:COMMONALITY. McLerristarr | Mclay1 15:54, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support. As most English-language MMORPGs are American-made, and most players are North American, it's not surprising that "alternate character" has become the standard term. "Alternative character" is almost unheard of, rendering WP:COMMONALITY not applicable. Furthermore, if we take WP:RETAIN into account, the article was originally titled alternate character. So it is to there it should be returned. Powers T 00:03, 13 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • WP:COMMONALITY overrides WP:RETAIN. WP:COMMONALITY is policy and it does not state "Follow this policy unless writing about an American topic". "Alternate characters", to me, means character that are constantly switched between back and forth. McLerristarr | Mclay1 05:41, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      • Did you even read what I wrote, or just focus in on a particular all-caps shortcut I used and respond to your straw-man version of what you think I might have written? As I said, WP:COMMONALITY is not really applicable here (I said nothing about it being overridden by WP:RETAIN, nor about being applied only to non-American topics). First of all, COMMONALITY is not itself policy; it is part of a policy document, which makes it more advisory than prescriptive. Second, COMMONALITY is written in the context of running text, with little indication that it applies strongly to article titles. WP:COMMONNAME is the overriding guideline for article titles, and that metric is clearly in favor of the proposed rename. Third, COMMONALITY does not require us to select a rarely-seen variant term just because the term was coined using an ambiguous or not-so-common word. COMMONALITY is intended to inform our word choice where we have options available, not to override COMMONNAME in cases where the common term can be interpreted as ambiguous. Powers T 13:20, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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