Board Thread:Site Problems and Appearance/@comment-25094659-20141202185202/@comment-4854965-20141203232020

MinecraftPercabeth wrote: Peacexfreedom wrote: Point taken on the Grunkle vs Mr. thing, but there's also some logic to be used, I think. Part of the reason for the discussion is about asthetics, and what is easiest to read. "Stan" is easier (partially because it's shorter) to read/look at than Stanford Pines, Mr Pines (which can also be Dipper's dad) or Grunkle Stan. Also, for looking at the page, I'm using the logic my 4th grade teacher taught me many years ago. For presentations, she told us to act as though she were an alien from Mars who had no preexisting knowledge of whatever the subject was. Assume someone who knows nothing of the show is looking at it. His first name is Stanford, but no one really calls him that, so logically, you'd put the nickname that people use as the name. That's what the alias/full name section is for (also so that it'll show up in a Google search so long as it's on the page) I'm pretty sure alias' are for nicknames. Edit: Oh there's a full name section too :) They're only there for full information though. Even the page starts off with Stanford "Stan" Pines, his real name, then his nickname.

I see what you're saying, although I don't think "Stan" being easier to say is a strong argument. We might as well take everyone's shortest nickname.

The mars logic is probably better kept for essays. If I knew my audience was for mars I would redirect from the transcript to the actual episode somewhere xD And if they were aliens, I personally would like to tell him his full name, but that's sort of subjective.

Edit 2:

I do see some sense in the idea, I'm mostly looking from biased point of veiw with the Stanley theory in mind. But I agree Soos's name should stay Soos in the transcripts. The only problem now is defining the rule. We could say common name but we see with Grunkle Stan that it doesn't work well. An alias is not just for nicknames but for alternate names in general. Heck, "Dipper" is just a nickname. I totally get where you're coming from with the Stanley theory (I believe it, too) but I have two reasons for why to keep it as Stan rather than Stanford:

1) We'll cross the Stanley bridge when we get to it

2) I'm assuming (if/when Stanley is canon) that he'll be reffered to as Stanley, or something different, and that Stanford will continue to be called Stan.