Board Thread:Site Problems and Appearance/@comment-25094659-20141202185202/@comment-25094659-20141203230810

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.

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.