Talk:Vacuum Accelerator

Isn't "teleporter" more of a descriptor than it is a name like "Vacuum Accelerator" is? I mean, "Vacuum Accelerator" is the first thing that we're told it's called, and "teleporter" seems more like to this device what the term "time machine" is to the "Temporal Station". --Sabrblade (talk) 08:25, 3 March 2014 (EST)

As far as I know, teleporter isn't a common term in science fiction like "time machine" is, and even Doc Greene was referring to it as the teleporter. --abates (talk) 14:24, 3 March 2014 (EST)

It really, really is a common, generic term. - SanityOrMadness (talk) 15:27, 3 March 2014 (EST)

It's still what they commonly called the device in the episode outside of one line from Boulder. --abates (talk) 15:40, 3 March 2014 (EST)

Same with the Temporal Station. It's called a "time machine" more than anything else, yet we know it has a proper name. It's also like how people say "car" more than they say what specific type of car it is because it's easier to just say "car" like how it's easier to just say "teleporter". But "car" isn't a specific car's proper name, and nor is "teleporter" the proper name of the Vacuum Accelerator. --Sabrblade (talk) 20:06, 3 March 2014 (EST)

I disagree that they're using "teleporter" in a generic sense. --abates (talk) 21:00, 3 March 2014 (EST)

Why? That doesn't make any sense. How much science fiction have you seen? The word "teleporter" is so abundantly common and generic a word that it holds about as much weight in formality as the word "blaster" does. Also, "Vacuum Accelerator" is the first thing that the device is ever even called, and as its official given name by Doc and Boulder. Shouldn't that alone give it precedence over any eventual nicknames and layman's terms? --Sabrblade (talk) 22:18, 3 March 2014 (EST)

When has the first thing something has been called dictate what an article is named? Josie Beller's article is at Circuit Breaker precisely because it's her most prominent name, not because it's her first. --abates (talk) 23:38, 3 March 2014 (EST)

And what proof is there that "teleporter" is any more formal and proper a term than "Vacuum Accelerator" when thousands of uses of the word in fiction show that the word is anything but formal and proper? Otherwise, wouldn't we have just named the Temporal Station page as just "Time machine"? Or even the Charlie Burns and Luskey pages as just "Chief" and "Mayor" (since those are the most common terms that they're referred to)? --Sabrblade (talk) 23:58, 3 March 2014 (EST)

I give up. --abates (talk) 01:11, 4 March 2014 (EST)