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== Move to "Murphy's Law" over redirect? ==
Here's a few reasons why I think we should:
- "Extreme Hereditary Murphy's Law" is quite a mouthful, and a typeful.
- The condition is never referred to as "Extreme Hereditary Murphy's Law" or "EHML" in the show itself; it's always been "Murphy's Law". "Extreme Hereditary Murphy's Law" was only referred to as such in a press release.
- A lot of pages that link to EHML pipe it as simply "Murphy's Law" anyway, if it isn't just linking to the redirect "Murphy's Law" to begin with.
I'm not saying we should remove the full name entirely. The full term does come from an official source, after all, and a reference to said term is included on the page now. I'm instead suggesting to use a more common name over a full title, like how we use "Candace Flynn" over "Candace Gertrude Flynn".
I would just move the page on my own, but, "Murphy's Law" already has quite a revision history (as it apparently started out as a regular page), so the wiki treats it as a non-redirect page, meaning I can't move it to that name since I don't have the rights to do so.
Arend (Wall) 00:43, December 30, 2018 (UTC)
I support this. WestWindbag (talk) 02:30, December 30, 2018 (UTC)
Same - I don't see any reason we shouldn't use the common name, myself. I've deleted the page history, but I don't wanna throw off your groove by taking further action, so let me know if you need anything else! - Serendipitacely (talk) 10:36, December 30, 2018 (UTC)
I'll take further action from here, then. Thanks, Seren! (...it's OK if I can call you that, I hope?) Arend (Wall) 12:20, December 30, 2018 (UTC)
No problem! It looks great, and I can already feel the relief of being able to type 'Murphy's Law' properly the first time around. I really love all of the title adjustments you've been making, man! They've made a huge difference. (And speaking of typefuls, It's totally okay if you call me that!) - Serendipitacely (talk) 10:35, December 31, 2018 (UTC)