Talk:List of Canon Characters/Names A-E

Nicknames
Nicknames, aka, alias, moniker,...

There are lots of names that one really has to dig through the fandom to find out whom they belong to. Also simple searching the fandom will not reveal the link to the page one looks for and thus have to retort to search for him with a search machine...

Thus nicknames and such, also those, which are only used in user talks and the like should be as well in the character list.

Hence, I want Doffy too in the character list. If you have a better solution, please do instead of just deleting everything Dragonus Nesha. Hiryo (talk) 22:24, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

Nicknames usually redirect to a character's page, so if they're put into the wiki search bar the character will show up. For example, Doffy redirects the user to Donquixote Doflamingo.

Anyways, this page is a list of characters, not of their nicknames. Walrsu (talk) 23:01, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

The problem is that when you search for "Doffy" in the fandom website then there is only pictures and no article or redirect linked to this!

Usually there is an entire list with all names/nicknames for each anime on a fandom but that is only for a FEW characters. There one can easily click through the 10 or so characters and see each nickname, aka, alias, moniker... Here with over 600 characters one is too overwhelmed when getting there anew and for those that use the fandom as source its tedious to search for a character in so many points: Whereby even no article is linked or he/she appears there, not even talking about renamed articles that don't show up anymore, or simple due the name change that the older articles names aren't redirected to anymore and cannot be find via the regular search. I for one had too many instances here in this fandom, where I needed to search outside of the fandom for hours and only then come up with who that was on the fandom and look for the correct name. For that reason I added the Doffy in the character list, so others don't have to search for half an hour or hour until they find that.

At this size of characters it's needed that one has a central place with all the names together. Alias, Moniker etc are as well names to be able to find them. Contrary to other fandom there is the character list done like this, instead of all listed under A etc and combined found in the fandom search.

If you have a better place for finding all names/nicknames/aka/alias/moniker/..., and time to do so, how we can do this for all of the characters, please enlighten me!

Hiryo (talk) 23:49, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

I'm not sure why, but your search is specified to sort "Everything", so it includes Files, Users, etc. When searching by "Articles" (i.e. existing pages), Doflamingo's page is the third result (see here). Unless I'm mistaken, that's usually the default search bar Fandom uses.

Old names, page moves, etc. should all have redirects updated accordingly; redirects that point to non-existent pages would be listed here, which there are none. When pages are moved a redirect is usually created to point to the new page by default, so it would need to be manually turned off by the user moving the page.

Either way, this wouldn't be the place to list aliases or nicknames, as DN mentioned in the edit summary here. It would be more appropriate on Name Variants, though I still think it doesn't fit; if you think it does, feel free to create a talk page there. If you find any aliases or nicknames missing redirects, feel free to create them yourself to make it easier for future users to find the pages; set the page up with the below code and it'll turn up correctly. Walrsu (talk) 01:15, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

In the search result example you gave, Hiryo, the top of the page says, "There is a page named "Doffy" on this wiki." Is that not the page you were looking for? A nickname should only be listed on this page if a range of characters use it as an alternative to their real name, e.g. Hachi for Hatchan. Dragonus Nesha (talk) 18:46, 20 February 2023 (UTC)