Board Thread:Editor Board/@comment-6697950-20131022183144/@comment-26391060-20131022185636

personally support the idea of picking the name with most popularity in internet as far as the name is official, but with some more specific detail, like:

0. find out their official real name&IGNs

1. compare both name online popularity by using googling in this way and compare their result count displayed by google:

https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=%22recon%22+%22sword+art+online%22+-wikia

https://www.google.com.hk/search?safe=off&q=%22nagata+shinichi%22%7C%7C%22shinichi+nagata%22+%22sword+art+online%22+-wikia

for setting an absolute standard in page naming if this method is applied.

2. mention both names in leading section for reachability.

p.s. for option 1, maybe we can improve ranking of pages in google by immediately stating the person's in-game name in the first sentence of lead section (although it might still be a bit lower in the first few day after adjustment, it's likely that ranking will go up later by the time people clicking into those search result. For example, In Kirito's article, maybe we can say Kirito(real name: Kirixxxx Kazuto), is a player of.......(w/o using template, seem google hard to pick up content in template)

p.p.s. alternatively, how about using character's in game name if and only if they are really devoted to play the game?