Forum:What's in a name?

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Back on Halopedia, Subtank pointed out that there's already a Wikia equivalent of this wiki, and it is also called Destinypedia. She also argues that our name needs to be something a little more unique, like Memory Alpha for Star Trek's wiki. I agree, but currently don't see anything topical enough to change this wiki's name to; there's just not enough canon yet. However, I'd agree with a name change later. What do you guys say?

Or we could make them change their name! To war!!! >:C Tuckerscreator (talk) 02:53, 18 February 2013 (EST)

I'll copypasta my response: I'm open to ideas I can get the .com domain for. I reached-out to them and got mostly no response and one nasty response, and that didn't make me feel sympathetic or anything. I figured it would just be something like minecraftwiki.net and minecraft.wikia.com - just live our lives separately even if the name is the same. Also, their SITENAME is "Destiny Wiki" (as is destiny.wikia.com). If I changed Destinypedia's SITENAME to Destiny Wiki then there would be three with SITENAME Destiny Wiki, and two with a Destinypedia URL. I like that we own the .com and our stuff matches. Wikia's got two Destiny wikis and their legit ones are usually "game-name".wikia.com AKA destiny.wikia.com. I wouldn't be surprised if they end up with just one called "Destiny Wiki" at destiny.wikia.com somehow. Anyways, I say keep an open-mind to new names and if I can snag a good domain name for it then that's something to consider. --Porplemontage (talk) 03:00, 18 February 2013 (EST)