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<p>While the articles seem to currently use superhero/supervillain names for characters, I believe they should be using characters' real names
</p><p>For example, "Shocker" would be named as "Herman Shultz" due to more than one person using the title, while the "Yellowjacket" article would describe the equipment, with the individual in question named as "Darren Cross".
</p><p>From what I've seen so far, it seems much more common for the cinematic universe to refer to the characters by their real names. For example, there's not a single time in which Darren Cross himself is called the Yellowjacket, neither does Phineas Mason seem to ever called the Tinkerer.
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<p>The community has already discussed this issue a long time ago.
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<p>@Mathias Corvinus - Just like the others, they'd be referred to by their real names, Thor Odinson, Matt Murdock, Tony Stark and T'Challa.
</p><p>@Uskok - Looks like I missed that one. Any possibility of that decision being reconsidered?
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No chance.
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Why not? Can't policies like that be changed?
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<p>In general, policies can be changed, of course.
</p><p>But not this one. We are not going to open a discussion every time a new user thinks we should change something back and forth.
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<p>Well, a new user wouldn't have had to bring it up, if the wiki had it right to begin with.
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We have it right. That you don't like doesn't mean it's wrong.
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<p>There's a good reason why I "don't like it."
</p><p>This wiki, like most others, is primarily a source of in-universe knowledge about the events and characters depicted in the media.
</p><p>And in-universe, Iron Man's real name is not "Iron Man", it's Anthony Stark. In-universe no one called Phineas Mason the Tinkerer, no one called Darren Cross the Yellowjacket.
</p><p>That's why the pseudonyms confused me at first, and why I believe real names should be used. That's how Marvel Wiki handles it, and that's how I believe we should handle it as well.
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<p>You are free to believe whatever you want, of course.
</p><p>However, this wiki is going to continue using codename for article names (nobody is calling that "real names" as you imply above)
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- It's the way characters are primarily marketed by their owner, Marvel Studios and/or Marvel Televisión.
- It's the name that most people uses on search engines, and allows our wiki to have a good position on Google and other search engines.
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<p>For example, there's not a single time in which Darren Cross himself is called the Yellowjacket, neither does Phineas Mason seem to ever called the Tinkerer.
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<p>Phineas Mason is actually credited as the Tinkerer in the credits, so that's not really the case. </p>
<p>Phineas Mason is actually credited as the Tinkerer in the credits, so that's not really the case. </p>
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