Forum:Episode/chapter/volume article names

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Currently, our articles for episodes, chapters, and numbers are named "<series> - <word> <number>" (for example, "Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS - Episode 001" or "Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL - Rank 001"). For a long time, I've wanted to change this so that they would use their official English titles instead. This has been discussed a couple of times on Discord, but no record was ever made on-wiki of the result, so I'm starting this forum thread to serve as an official on-wiki record.

To be clear, this change would not make the current titles unusable; they would remain as redirects, and in some cases would continue to be used (mainly, if SMW ever gets disabled, templates which link to thse pages will fall back to using the current titles). ディノ千?!? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 00:16, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

I've never supported this idea, primarily because I have never heard anyone discuss episodes of the show and use episode names to refer to specific episodes (whether those names are Japanese or English, it doesn't matter). Everyone simply tends to use the episode numbers. I think its much easier that way especially with the ever-increasing amount of total episodes. Cheesedude (talkcontribs) 00:30, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
I think that there's still merit to simply using the current listing for the page names themselves. On further consideration though, what I would like to do would be to have redirects for the titles, or at the very least be able to (when referring to them in character bios for example) the option to make the displayed text of the link the episode title. At the very least, I'm not fond of "episode 8" when referring to something if I have to for example. Sanokal K-T (talkcontribs) 02:19, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
The majority of the community is more committed to the subbed versions, largely due to the fact that the dubbed version is often a year behind. There won't be any benefit to the episodes being listed by their dubbed titles. I much prefer them being listed by number since it makes it easier to search for them through the URL. MadRest (talkcontribs) 21:04, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
Regardless of which naming scheme we go with, there should be redirects from the other naming scheme, so I don't think which is easier to search is relevant.
I think it's worth considering that on yugioh.com DM episodes are numbered as "S2: Episode 1" etc. and not "Episode 50" etc. However, on my dub DVDs, while the physical discs say "Episode 8-14" etc., the DVD menu numbers the episodes 57-63 etc. So one advantage of using dub titles as page titles is that avoids the numbering confusion. --SnorlaxMonster 02:49, 22 September 2018 (UTC)