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To clarify, Resident Evil: Degeneration page uses the name "WilPharma". According to the wiki, due to a supposed legal letter by a real company WillPharma and Capcom themselves, the wiki has changed the name to "WP Corporation". Should we change?
The answer is probably not until Capcom or Will Pharma contacts us. I can't find references to Will Pharma contacting Capcom anywhere but that wiki's message, and WilPharma is named in the movie (possibly in translation looking it up). If Capcom was bothered by their fictional company having a resemblance to a real company, they'd probably mention so somewhere public.
Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
^ Agreed. Leave it until we get an official public statement from Capcom or Will Pharma.
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I was on the wiki mod team when it happened. They didn't cite the exact reasons, but I suspect it's because of the pandemic not giving drug companies good press. If you're a drug company, the last thing potential investors need in 2021 is a fictional story about a drug company of the same name deliberately releasing a deadly virus in order to profit from the vaccine.
So, they got in contact with Capcom to get it stopped; due to weird licensing stuff most things introduced in animated films never appear again, so Capcom just needs to avoid mentioning it on webpages in future. Since the Wiki was top of the Google results however, both Capcom's and Will Pharma's legal teams got in contact with FANDOM to get that changed. The lawyers agreed that "WP Corporation" was vague enough to avoid confusion but similar enough users can recognise it when told about the legal dispute.
TL;DR - Will Pharma didn't like the RE Wiki entry on a fictional company being top of the search results so sent lawyers to Capcom and FANDOM to get it changed. They probably won't contact TV Tropes unless you ended up being top of the search results in future.
Asking because of this: https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/WP_Corporation