Thread:Dank/@comment-93957-20180312053818/@comment-995426-20180315224516

Well, I, speaking strictly as one editor, have never been much of a "comic book guy," and I mainly only read TMNT comics as a niche interest. Marvel? DC? Superhero comics in general? I generally can't be bothered with those comics or their wikis or questions of conformity between them and this wiki. Most of the comics I do read are slice-of-life adult comics, of which Mirage TMNT was one of my favorites. The closest I get to superhero comic interest are stuff like wuxia-type stories with a supernatural element, which is why I've also been reading the most recent Legend of Korra comics.

That said, over at the Mutant Ninja Turtles Gaiden Wiki which I manage, I do generally use titles like "Mr." or "Mrs." before names of characters only known by their last names. But if their first-and-last-name form is known, I just name them that and dispense with any titles. Hence and, and yet , , , and also single-named characters like  and  who are never addressed by title. I use original real names in preference to secondary names, even if their secondary names have become more common, like instead of,  instead of , and  instead of the. But since the MNTG Wiki has no written manual of style, even that may be subject to change in the future. Even some article names may be too conjectural, as we met a woman who appeared to be 's adoptive mother whom we unofficially called "Mrs. Wallace," but we don't know if she and Mr. Wallace are married, or if even the woman seen was the original woman who adopted her&mdash;Mr. Wallace could have divorced and married someone else, or cohabitating with someone else, or whatever. Hell, it's vaguely possible that isn't even either, but these were likely assumptions. I suppose things like this is why we started using Template:conjtitle for some articles here at Turtlepedia.

To be honest, I rather like Turtlepedia's system of excluding "Mr.", "Dr.", etc. I mean, I originally wrote the article for Dr. Victor Oban Feral, but am satisfied with the article title now being Victor Oban Feral. And later when I wrote the article for Buscheyev, I was satisfied with that title rather than "Mr. Buscheyev." Titles like "Mr." are often what you address people in real life whose fuller names you don't know, but if you were maintaining their names in a database, titles like "Mr." are often irrelevant until you get to descriptive article paragraphs written in English. So, no "Mr." in the title, but "Mr." in the article body text.