Guidelines:Article Naming: Difference between revisions

If two articles share the same target name, at least one of them will need to be given a discriminator in parenthesis so as to differentiate them. In cases where three or more pages all share the target name, a [[Guidelines:Manual of Style#Disambiguations|disambiguation]] page may be necessary to accommodate for them all. In most cases however, the most commonly sought subject will take priority in the mainspace while the secondary subject is given a discriminator. The discriminator should reflect the type of subject or otherwise the title of its media source. For examples: [[Fairy (Demon)]] is given the discriminator of (Demon) to specify the page's subject and to distinguish it from the [[Fairy]] race page. [[Joker (Ronde)]] has the discriminator of the source media's title to indicate it is a character specifically from that media and to differentiate from other characters also named Joker.

For media titles, the discriminator should be the type of media, such as (Game) or (Manga). If two media share a title and are of the same type, the discriminator should instead be the name of the media's publisher, such as in the case of '''''Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei'' (Telenet)'''. If one of the media in question acts as a source for other material published under the same name, it should not require a discriminator, as is the case for '''''Persona 5'''''. Priority is given to video games over other types of media.

In most cases, Demons, Personas, and Shadows should use their most recent or standardized localized name as their article title. Under this criteria, '''Jack-o'-Lantern''' is used over the demon's older localized name Pyro Jack. All other names should redirect to the target page. For pages that list demons, such as Demon Listings and Race or Arcana pages, these should link back to the target page using the in-game localized names used.

Some Demons, however, are inconsistently translated even in more recent localizations, such as the case with Feng Huang who is sometimes mistranslated as Phoenix, and Zhuque who in past localizations has been called Feng Huang. In cases such as these, the wiki should use the Demon's name from its culture of origin or otherwise a direct translation of its Japanese name used in media. Under this rule, both Feng Huang and Zhuque use their origin names on the wiki (with the localization's spellings of these names). Demon Listings should still link back to these pages using the in-game localized names.