Forum:Should we ditch nicknames?
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Perhaps we should get rid of the nicknames on descriptions. It's just a bunch of low-quality filler. A lot of in-jokes. It's not encyclopedic material. Only a few nicknames have any regular use in discourse outside of the wiki. The last 2 New Line Cinema logo descriptions each have 17 different nicknames. That's beyond excessive. |
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You know what I'm very much in favor of this. We should only keep nicknames that are common community discourse like V of Doom, S from Hell, Splaat, etc. |
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agreed, i have legit never seen a singular person that has called the 20th Century Studios logo the "Disney Tower" lol |
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Yeah, might as well do it. Another reason I can think of is that some of them are based on information that has since been removed, and are thus outdated. |
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If consensus is for it, I'm not opposed. |
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I definitely think nicknames now are not necessary. IMO it's a reflection of the old Scare Factors. I brought this issue up before in an old thread: I've seen a lot of logos here have too many nicknames, most of them are wordy, redundant, or too specific, and I doubt anyone but the writer used the nicknames anyway. A while ago I removed a nickname from the Bum Motion Pictures (South Korea) page that referenced bum as in butt, even though it wouldn't make any sense in a South Korean context anyway. But now that I think of it, you're right Shakla, nicknames are not encyclopedic material. No one calls the 2002 Paramount logo "Ultra Majestic Mountain" nor "Perumount the Fourth". They call it "the 2002 Paramount logo" or "the old Paramount logo". They're unnecessary and most of them names only the writer use (or made up). Of course there are logos with legitimate nicknames, such as Screen Gems, Viacom and Columbia's sunburst, but they can just go in the Editor's Notes. Here, for example, were the original nicknames for Universal's current logo before I fixed them up. Even after I removed many of them, I still think they're kind of redundant. "CGI Globe III", "100th Anniversary Globe", "Rotating Letters IV", "Majestic Globe", "100 Years of Universal", "Comcast Globe", "Centennial Globe", "Earth Globe VII", "Globes Through the Ages II", "Anniversary Globe II", "Happy Anniversary, Universal! II", "Universal's 100th", "Happy 100th, Universal!", "Century Globe", "Comcast Globe" |
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I'm personally not bothered with simple and straightforward nicknames. The only problem is when a logo has too many nicknames or the nickname is lenghty or subjective. A maximum of 6 nicknames, I'd say. |
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In agreement that we should cut down on the really unnecessary and excessive nicknames. Boje Buck comes to mind as a huge mess. |
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Definitely agree. Aside from a few infamous logos, NO ONE uses them in logo conversations. They are unnecessary, and many are quite frankly cringey. |
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You know, the more I clean up pages, the more I feel most nicknames that aren't commonly used are mostly unnecessary, and it doesn't help that some of them are pretty bare-bones. |
