Talk:Lyn (gamer)

Requested move 25 March 2016

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The result of the move request was: unbundle—these entries need to be discussed vis-à-vis their sources individually. czar 15:16, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

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• Park "Lyn" June → Park June
• Nal_rA → Kang Min
• Kingdom (video gamer) → Park Yong-wook
• Faker (video gamer) → Lee Sang-hyeok
• Life (gamer) → Lee Seung-hyun (esports player)
• Flash (video gamer) → Lee Young-ho

– They are nicknames used in the sector. The real names are more encyclopaedic. And Talk:Hong Jin-ho#Requested move 11 January 2016, Talk:Lim Yo-hwan, Talk:Jeon Sang-wook (video gamer)#Requested move 15 January 2016, Talk:Byun Eun-jong, Talk:Chang Yong-suk, Talk:Choi Yeon-sung, Talk:Seo Ji-hun, Talk:Seo Ji-soo, Talk:Won Lee-sak, Talk:Jung Myung-hoon, Talk:Lee Yun-yeol, Talk:Park Jung-suk (video gamer) are moved to the real names. Sawol (talk) 14:59, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

• Oppose moving Faker, Life, and Flash per WP:NICKNAME and WP:COMMONNAME: "The name used most often to refer to a person in reliable sources is generally the one that should be used as the article title, even if it is not their "real" name,". As for the other three, since they were notable many years ago when Brood War/WC3 were popular there are basically no English language reliable sources for them so I have no idea. My gut instinct says they should be titled after the nicknames though, but don't take this as a vote right now.--Prisencolin (talk)
• Support these nickname sources don't appear to be very reliable sources. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:26, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

• Comment. To the extent that these players are covered at all, this is basically nonsense. It'd be the reverse if anything - since their "real" names are rarely used, those are potentially made-up, but the screenname is well-known. At the very least, nobody in the English-speaking eSports community refers to the last 3 by anything other than their screenname. You can perhaps argue that even the best 3rd party sources aren't reliable but that's more an argument for deleting almost all eSports personalities due to lack of sources. Once you start accepting at least some sources... well, example: http://www.lolesports.com/en_US/featured/top20/faker refers to him solely as Faker, with the real name an irrelevant footnote. Any match coverage for events like Worlds basically only uses screennames as well (e.g. http://www.sbnation.com/2015/10/31/9649912/league-of-legends-2015-world-championship-scores-finals-skt-koo-tigers . "Faker", no Lee Sang-hyeok.).

• Oppose Faker, Life, & Flash who are all only notable under those names. I'm not familiar with the other 3 but consider this a weak oppose solely due to the fact that "more encyclopedic" is not an argument; usage is an argument, and it hasn't been provided. SnowFire (talk) 01:13, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

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