Thread:The S/@comment-995426-20180214103908

As I've been transcribing IDW TMNT issues for the wiki, I've in the process been revisiting the continuity's central supernatural lore. And I realized something: So I'm thinking, it may be necessary to streamline our IDW reincarnated character articles into a single common practice. And if so, that would seem to imply one of two mutually exclusive solutions:
 * The articles for Hamato Yoshi (IDW), Leonardo (IDW), Raphael (IDW), Donatello (IDW) and Michelangelo (IDW) cover both their current and past incarnations, with the understanding that they are the same spirits in different vessels.
 * However, the articles for Dragon (IDW), Takeshi Tatsuo and Oroku Saki (IDW) are all separate articles, though the same principle of same spirit in different vessels applies.
 * Fold Takeshi Tatsuo and Oroku Saki (IDW) into Dragon (IDW), making that the sole article for all his various reincarnated forms&mdash;the father of the Pantheon, the founder of the Foot, his reincarnation as Saki, etc.
 * Or, split Hamato Yoshi (IDW) into separate articles Hamato Yoshi (IDW) and Splinter (IDW). In the same vein, also start new articles for the human past lives of Yoshi's four sons.  Since they have never been individually named, we'd be forced to use conjectural article titles, similarly to the improvised names we already use for articles like Church Lair (IDW).  In transcribing, I've already come to the convention of calling them by shorthand names "Blue Son," "Red Son," "Purple Son" and "Orange Son," though proper article names should probably be along the lines of Hamato Yoshi's first son (IDW) or Hamato Yoshi's blue son (IDW), depending on whether we're going by birth order or the color of garb they always wear.  If going by birth order, they could be Hamato Yoshi's first son (IDW), Hamato Yoshi's second son (IDW), Hamato Yoshi's third son (IDW) and Hamato Yoshi's fourth son (IDW).  If going by color, they could be Hamato Yoshi's blue son (IDW), Hamato Yoshi's red son (IDW), Hamato Yoshi's purple son (IDW) and Hamato Yoshi's orange son (IDW).  The question is, how do we associate them more&mdash;through their relative ages to each other, or by the color of their clothes?

Now on an only loosely related matter, I've been thinking Ninja Turtles (IDW) could maybe be renamed to Clan Hamato (IDW), as that formal name (in that specific wording, as opposed to "Hamato Clan" or "Hamato family") was bestowed by Splinter onto his four sons after they chose to leave his Foot Clan, and Leonardo has been using the title officially for the group comprising himself and his brothers ever since. Though it's possible that "Clan Hamato" could be understand to mean their family in general, Splinter appears to treat it in a strictly formal protocol of ninja clan affiliation that seems to exclude himself by virtue of being jonin of a different clan, and in Invasion of the Triceratons has even forced consultations with Leonardo to follow the protocol of jonin-to-jonin diplomacy. It may be that this is just a special cultural baggage common to both Splinter and Leo, and ultimately Clan Hamato (IDW) could just be a redirect to Ninja Turtles (IDW), but...I kinda wanted to know what you thought about all this before I considered making any major edits on the distinction. 