WikiBound talk:Nomenclature: Difference between revisions

:There are times where forcing an official name can work against us. The reason we refrained from moving Mother to EarthBound Beginnings is because the English name was new while Mother was used for many years prior, moving the page would've resulted in the risk of our wiki getting less exposure, as most people using search engines will be using the names they are more familiar with due to being more widely known as they were used longer. Sure it's not an issue anymore as most casual gamers have adapted to the English name (while the more "hardcore" fans prefer Mother and EB zero), but the same problems would arise if say by some miracle a Mother 3 localization happens and all the characters and such recieve new names that are completely dissimilar to what they've been known by in the fan translation for many ''many'' years, and arguably on an even greater scale, along with causing confusion with our wiki using a different name than what basically every other EarthBound related site uses (say if, for example, [[Fassad]] gets moved to his official Japanese name "Yokuba", more people will be searching the former in search engines causing our wiki to be overlooked in the search results). On a related note, us using the Mother 3 fan translation's names means we technically are already using unofficial names in titles, and yes I fully realize this is an entirely different situation altogether as that's the closest we are able to get to an official English name, but my point on the benefits of using the names the general public are most familiar with still stands.