Board Thread:Manual of Style/@comment-1259419-20160607124335

There are many (human and animal) characters who's name isn't spoken or shown on screen. For some characters, like Billy and Ryan Crest, their names are shown in movie-related material like the script, trading cards, props etc.

However, there are a lot of characters for who we do not have a (full) name in even movie-related media. This is bad because names are very important, not in the least because it is easier to write an article about them.

Like the famous writer G.R.R.Martin said: "until I can find a right name [for a character], it is like I do not know who he is, and I can't proceed on it".

For many characters we have started to use names that are given to them in other media. Like the novels and video games. LEGO Jurassic World has given almost all characters a name. We have used these LEGO names to name their articles and refer them too in text.

The Gyrosphere Operator is now called Josh, the guy who fell in the Raptor Pen is called Leon. I could go on. Sure, this video game is certainly not canonical with the movies, but it is better to have any name for character if there is one.

Because of all this I assumed we (long ago) silently adopted the rule:

'A character needs a name. If in ANY media a character/building/animal is given a name, we use that one in the articles.'

Therefore, it surprised me that the JP:TG haters proposed that we can't name the Tyrannosaurus from the first film "Rexy" (a nickname that comes from the original novel) somehow because JP:TG is not canonical. Instead, some admin proposed to replace it with hideous 'names' like "JP1/JW rex" or "T. rex of Jurassic Park/World".

If that is true we also can not keep the names of the characters we named after their LEGO counterparts. And I think it should be obvious that would be terrible.

I'd appriciate it if we could, with this thread, settle the issue and officially adopt the naming rule I mentioned above.

No time-wasters, please. 