Talk:Necrotitan
I would think this article should stay at Necrotitan. That's what it was known as through the entire run, the after-the-fact reveal of the name Quintessa shouldn't override that. --KilMichaelMcC (talk) 09:35, 14 November 2018 (EST)
- IIRC, "Necrotitan" wasn't even said once in the comic. It was just in solicitation text and was more of a descriptive nickname than an actual name. Saix (talk) 10:28, 14 November 2018 (EST)
- There was a whole gag where Brainstorm and Bluestreak? talk about the proper way to pronounce Necrotitan. It might not have ever been used as a proper name (IIRC it was always THE Necrotitan), but it WAS used. Doc Chloroplast (talk) 12:48, 14 November 2018 (EST)
- Even if it was used in the trade, the actual name should be where the page title is. We have lots of characters, locations, and other things at titles that were never used in the published or broadcast material, sourced from word-of-god, because they're the actual, official, proper names. There's no real reason to make an exception. - TBR (talk) 18:19, 14 November 2018 (EST)
- There was a whole gag where Brainstorm and Bluestreak? talk about the proper way to pronounce Necrotitan. It might not have ever been used as a proper name (IIRC it was always THE Necrotitan), but it WAS used. Doc Chloroplast (talk) 12:48, 14 November 2018 (EST)
I want to bring this up again - with the name "Necrotitan" being used in Forged to Fight and "Quintessa" being relegated to Unicron backmatter, I think it's more user-friendly to have this page at "Necrotitan", similar to how we put G.I. Joe characters at their codenames rather than their "real" names. It helps that doing so would avoid the disambig tag. --Riptide (talk) 14:38, 19 September 2022 (EDT)
- I agree. Grum (talk) 15:21, 19 September 2022 (EDT)
- I agree too, having just reread Dark Cybertron. That's the Necrotitan right there. I had no idea it was ever called Quintessa until just now! Much more useful and less confusing to have it at Necrotitan. —The Wadapan (talk) 16:25, 19 September 2022 (EDT)
- I disagree. To reiterate TBR's point, we have lots of articles named after a name that wasn't said in comic, i.e. the USS Enterprise crew's full names. Don't see why this one should be the exception. Outside of Bluestreak and Brainstorm's accent gag, Necrotitan wasn't even used in the comic. TimeLord11 (talk) 17:57, 19 September 2022 (EDT)
- So we have one name that wasn't even used except for when it was, and one name that wasn't used ever and was only revealed in a single piece of backmatter after the end of the series? -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 02:45, 20 September 2022 (EDT)
Non-story names should only be used if there is no other name, i.e. Trachis. There was a whole bit in the story about how to pronounce Necrotitan. That's the name, make "Quintessa (IDW)" a redirect, I guarantee no one will ever, ever be sent to that page by it. --Thylacine 2000 (talk) 07:11, 20 September 2022 (EDT)- Eh, it had to have some real name before it got necro'ed, so, sure, as alienating as it is to pretty much everybody who read the story in "realtime," I guess go with Quintessa. --Thylacine 2000 (talk) 10:25, 11 October 2022 (EDT)
- So we have one name that wasn't even used except for when it was, and one name that wasn't used ever and was only revealed in a single piece of backmatter after the end of the series? -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 02:45, 20 September 2022 (EDT)
Re-reading Dark Cybertron, and the first time the thing is called "Necrotitan" is actually by Bumblebee at the end of chapter 8, when he's telling Megatron that they're going to fight it instead of running away. Megatron later repeats it in chapter 9. Bluestreak and Brainstorm's conversation doesn't happen until chapter 10, after it's already dead. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 03:09, 9 October 2022 (EDT)
- "Quintessa the Necrotitan" as a compromise for the main title, with all existing redirects? --Xaaron (talk) 10:01, 11 October 2022 (EDT)
Per our help pages: "Characters with multiple names (as in the case of alter-egos) should have their article listed under their most prominent name, even if that means a human is listed under a code name instead of their real full name." -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 16:15, 11 October 2022 (EDT)
- I think a similar example, then, would be the members of the DJD whose pages are all at their codenames rather than their real names. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 19:05, 11 October 2022 (EDT)
Did discussion about this ever reach a conclusion? Its been a few years at this point, but the article remains titled Quintessa and the discussion reminder remains at the top of the page. If were not moving the article, we should probably remove said thing yes? Frightfursowo (talk) 13:17, 5 June 2024 (EDT)
- Doesn't seem like it, but rereading it two years later, my vote would still be for Necrotitan. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 19:19, 5 June 2024 (EDT)