Thread:Dexcuracy/@comment-27025402-20160620211551

Hi, Josh!

Percy's page is consistently one of the most frequently viewed pages on this wiki, and based on what I've seen from Twitter, I'd wager that a significant portion of those views are because people are attempting to find the proper spelling of his name for fan art, fan fic, memes, and general curiosity. I recommend that Percy's full name be returned to the lead paragraph, given that:
 * 1) it is his official character name;
 * 2) it is the quintessential form of Percy's own self-introductions; and
 * 3) the lead paragraph is used to generate the google search results preview.

I also recommend returning the page name to the character name, which is the standard naming convention that we began using a while ago, and to which we've been transitioning a backlog of character pages. Here is the reasoning:
 * Google search results will use the page name, providing better information when the page name is accurate.Percy-Google-Top-Result.png
 * Specifically for Percy, here's the way it looks with his full name, which is incredibly useful to googlers.  All I typed into Google was percy de rolo.
 * Although there's a long, long way to go, this wiki is naturally more oriented toward an encyclopedic nature than, for example, the subreddit (which is more relaxed), Crit Role Stats (which is more original research), and the TVTropes page (which is more relaxed and omits reliable sources).  The encyclopedic nature of the wiki makes full character names more appropriate, due to reliability, disambiguation, standardization, "officialness", and so forth.
 * At no point in an article thus far has "Percival de Rolo" been a preferable page link in the text of an article in comparison to the casual "Percy" or his official full name.  When necessary to use a short link, we've found redirects for nicknames and diminutives (such as Percy) to be preferable to renaming character pages to partial character names.
 * Aside from infoboxes, navboxes, and tables, character names are typically only linked to their respective articles in the first instance in the body of an article.  We do not link the repeated uses of a name.  Therefore, since it's really only used rarely, it's not a huge burden to type " [[Perci ", autocomplete the wikilink with Percy's full name, and add a piped rename if alternative text is desired.

Please let me know your thoughts on these issues! Thanks so much! :-D
 * –VeganCritter (talk) 21:15, June 20, 2016 (UTC) 