Thread:Tavisource/@comment-59335-20140630195711/@comment-59335-20140703032432

Tavisource wrote: I still keep my position to leave the pages the way they are now for the following reason:
 * 1. It is more consistent to keep them all as Candy Person ## since most of them do not have alternate names.
 * i. The pages already do have redirects which, I believe, is sufficient enough.
 * 2. The character model sheets are more official, in regards to naming, compared to the credits.
 * i. There has been no recent character sheets released that labels him as "Root Beer Guy".
 * ii. This wiki, since Day 1, has always referred to the character sheets as the main reference for official names and pages.
 * 3. It is customary for credits to label characters based on what they were referred to as the most in the episode.
 * i. Root Beer Guy has always been "Candy Person 28" in all other cases.
 * ii. He was only given an alternate name "Root Beer Guy" as the episode was different from the rest and promoted differently due to its star, Jack Pendarvis, as seen on their Facebook.

This still does not seem like very good logic at all. Why exactly should we treat character sheets like the Word of God? Just giving a character a number is literally the most stagnant and boring and inefficient ways to label a character. And I think the majority of people on this wiki agreed considering that all of the candy poeple who DO have names are referred to throughout by their true names, and not by the model sheet labels that are used in the articles' title. If an official encyclopedia was released that catalogued every character from the show, i guarentee you characters like Mr. Cupcake or Root Beer Guy would NOT be referred to as Candy Person #X. This is just another example of unneccessary technicalities taking priority over common sense and logic. I see it a lot on wikis like this, and quite honestly it more often than not prevents such wikis from being taken seriously.