Name's the Same subpage cleanup

As I was looking through the subpages of Names The Same, it seems that the pages appear to be quite a mess. Some examples—and to an extent some pages—are unsorted, for starters, making it hard to find certain names, and risking the chance of some examples being repeated. It would be great if they were sorted a little better.

Furthermore, I think creators/series that tend to use this as a trend may need their own pages. Capcom (found in the Video Games subpage) is one example.

Are there any other ways that we can clean up these pages?

There aren't any readily apparent standards for how examples are listed. Or how they're written, for that matter.

Some are listed by work, franchise, or creator, with all the characters in a from a given work, franchise, or creator as bullet points. This means there may be duplicate entries (ex. Work A and Work B have a character named Bob. Work A's entry says "Bob shares a name with a character from Work B." Work B's entry says "Bob shares a name with a character from Work A):

Some are listed by the name of the character, with there being examples from the same work in different places:

There's also the problem of which subpage something should be listed on. The Cross-Media page seems to be for when Work A is a video game and Work B is a movie and they both have a character named Bob. This implies that the media-specific subpages should contain only examples where Work A and Work B are both the same type of media. But in practice, many examples seem to be listed either on a media-specific subpage (or even on multiple media subpages) rather than the Cross-Media page.

I would think that this last issue would need to be dealt with before attempting cleanup/alphabetization/reorganization/whatever else of the subpages. Wow, that was long. Thoughts?

edited 3rd Sep '15 8:23:59 PM by phoenix

Wait, wait, wait. Names The Same is supposed to be cross-fiction? That seems completely useless, if not an open call to Fan Myopia-type fan-pushing. I thought it was supposed to be within a single work or setting, like the opposite of One-Steve Limit.

edited 3rd Sep '15 9:17:58 PM by nrjxll

Yeah, and it also doesn't encompass works with the same name. That's Similarly Named Works. I'm kinda thinking this may be the most trivial Trivia ever. I could maybe see it as having a point for names like "Terra" or "Megatron", but there's literally a list of Bobs on Western Animation. Do we really want a list of every fictional use of common given names? How about some kind of minimum standard for examples, like the characters have to share first and last names (if they have them)?

edited 3rd Sep '15 10:07:08 PM by phoenix

When it comes to common names, I think there should be more similarities to justify their placement. Like if they had a common last name or a common role, that should justify it enough.

Anyways, the Western Animation subpage got quite a surgical operation, though it's not finished yet. I recently nixed a few shoehorns (some not in the right genre!) and a whole mess of sub-bullets.

Some clean up has to be done for characters that just share part of a name. The description specifically states that they have to share an entire name, not just part of one.

I cut out a bunch of Mayas the other day because they just share a given name, not a family name.

Due to the way the tropes is setup to be cross-fiction, I think axing on-page examples would be the best thing to do.

edited 10th Sep '15 2:14:18 PM by Karxrida

Nevermind

Edited by MacronNotes on Mar 31st 2022 at 10:02:11 AM