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Yes, we have a policy of not using spoiler tags on moments pages, but that doesn't mean things should be intentionally spoiled like that.
Keet cleanup
At the very least it's needlessly confusing, since someone looking up something for the character from that period is more likely to be looking for the old name, not the new.
Edited by sgamer82
Can't look at the history because of the risk of spoiling something I haven't yet seen, so I'll ask about the case I know about.
Is the character's real name either Eobard Thawne or Hunter Zolomon? Both those characters were actively impersonating someone else for a long period of time, so it's confusing to talk about the characters they were claiming to be. Though in the case of the character Thawne was impersonating, it's confusing for other reasons.
As I said last time, in those two specific cases, scare quotes (or calling him "fake [character name]" or whatnot) could be the best option.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
So it's kind of like Mukuro impersonating Junko in Danganronpa?
Keet cleanup
We don't do that for other stories which use similar revelations. In Discworld's Thief of Time, we don't replace all examples of Ronnie with "Ronnie" or Horseman of Chaos. We simply say Ronnie Soak unless we're discussing the reveal or post-reveal. This falls within the site's rules of Present Perfect Tense for writing.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
There is a character in The Flash (2014) who went by a different name before a major reveal. goldenroad changed all references to him on the funny and nightmare fuel tabs to his real name, long before the reveal, therefore spoiling it for anyone who wants to look at the folder for episodes dozens of episodes before the reveal. And this isn't the first time.
I'm reverting it (it was too long ago for a system revert), but I'm requesting he get a hard tap on the shoulder.