Talk:Jayne Cobb
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The problem with "Rayne" is that no one outside the fandom is likely to get it, at least without cudgeling their brains. I'm fine with including it, but it's too opaque without an explanation. --Msilverstar 22:48, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
- This is a wiki though. The wikilink is the explanation. If you don't know what Rayne is or you want to learn more about Rayne, you click on the link and there it is. Lim 15:58, 25 November 2008 (UTC)lim
- I'd rather have it easier to skim, with the explanation right there. Pairing names can be so disconcerting. --Msilverstar 17:28, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
- It feels a little disconcerting to me to use the 'character name-virgule-character name' format only for the slash, and to use the portmanteau name for the het relationship, when gender isn't that distinctive a feature in which way the pairing is formulated in other fandoms. Is that something unique to this fandom, in that using a smushed name implies a het relationship, and the two character names with the virgule imples slash? If not, I think we should be consistent on the page, and either use both formats (if the link is the smushed name) for both types of ships or just use the two character names with a virgule format. Like Msilverstar, since I'm not familiar with the canon, I can't translate the smushed name on the fly. Plus I think we need to make sure the pages accessible to people who have little knowledge of the canon or fandom overall. --rache 18:18, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
- The communities are rayne_fic and bestofrayne etc, so it seems like the people in the fandom should decide what the pairings are called, right? If they call one with a slash and one with a smush, so be it! Now that the pairing is glossed in parens, there shouldn't be any trouble; we don't want consistency at the cost of local custom, I think.--Speranza 02:53, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
- All I wanted was the character names in the parenthesis, which I put in and someone took out. I am a happy camper now :-) --Msilverstar 04:19, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
- The communities are rayne_fic and bestofrayne etc, so it seems like the people in the fandom should decide what the pairings are called, right? If they call one with a slash and one with a smush, so be it! Now that the pairing is glossed in parens, there shouldn't be any trouble; we don't want consistency at the cost of local custom, I think.--Speranza 02:53, 26 November 2008 (UTC)