Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television)
From the 'Episode and character articles' section, it says "For characters, typically the full name is used, if known, for the title of the article except when an alias or other name is much more common."
I think this guidance is flawed – what is said would be true for WP:BLPs, but characters are fictional and these articles not real "biographies". The article/etc. should always be at the WP:COMMONNAME title, period. In other words, it should only be at the "full name" if the full name is the common name. This is directly relevant in a couple of cases I've come across lately: Cosmo Kramer vs. Kramer (Seinfeld) (I'd argue the article should be at the latter), and the redirect at Gibby Gibson which again I'd argue should be at Gibby (iCarly).
So, I'd advocate that we reword the sentence from the guideline above to say something like, "For characters, the title of the article should always conform to the character's
common name
."
--IJBall(contribs • talk) 04:27, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Magnum, P.I. § Requested move 10 December 2020. TheDoctorWho (talk) 20:25, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
I'd like to revisit why this change [1] was made to the additional disambiguation section. The only discussion on this talk page I can find relevant to the proposed change was here which I don't believe ended with any proper consensus one way or the other. The change in question is now being used to ramrod through additional RMs, which are then cited as proof of consensus for this so-called preference, creating a weird sort of feedback loop. -- Calidum 13:55, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
There are a group of related series on BBC television: same format, different titles - Yorkshire Walks, Winter Walks (2 series), Walking with ... (not to be confused with Walking with... about dinosaurs etc!). Same producer: Cy Chadwick; same format: a walker, superb scenery, a 360-degree camera on a selfie-stick, a drone, on-screen informative captions, interviews with people encountered, the odd poem. Editors interested in choice of titles for TV articles might like to join the discussion at Talk:Walking with... (BBC Four series). PamD 16:34, 11 December 2021 (UTC)