Talk:Dog (Half-Life 2)

D0g or Dog?
Both the Half-Life wiki and the Combine Overwiki list this character's name as "Dog", with no zero in the name. Shouldn't that be what this page's name is as well? Dogman15 ( talk ) 06:37, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Wow. Two and a half years later, and no one has responded to me? Especially after this edit? (Seriously, Ferret.) Another source for his name being "Dog" (and "D0g" being a misnomer) is that the game's official subtitles/captions label him as "Dog". Personally, I'd like to see a source for the "D0g" name. I have a feeling it didn't come from Valve, but from some third-party material. Or maybe that was the character's name's spelling in pre-production or beta, but isn't anymore. At any rate, I'd go by more recent sources: The latest update to the game, where the subtitles remained "Dog", and both Half-Life wikis, which if they were wrong, would be corrected. The people who edit the first wiki I linked really know what they're doing. Dogman15  ( talk ) 02:20, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Other wikis aren't usable as a reliable source. I'd recommend doing a move request. Note that the target article would have to be Dog (Half-Life 2 character) or similar. -- ferret (talk) 02:32, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

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Requested move 25 October 2017

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Moved. There's consensus to do the move as specified. If someone wants to merge, that's a separate issue. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 22:36, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

D0g → Dog (Half-Life 2) – No reference to being spelt "D0g", other wikis just call him "Dog". This wiki page is the only search result that calls it "D0g" – Nixinova ⟨T|C⟩ 03:55, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Neutral. Wikipedia is not based upon other wikis, but reliable sources. A quick search on the WP:VG/RS custom Google search engine brings up plenty of results. That being said, I remain neutral in this discussion, because I also can imagine that WP:PRECISE is more important - on my keyboard, the zero ("0") is situated right above the letter O. soetermans . ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 10:34, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Support Current name is too confusing and a potential typo as 0 is next to o. It could use a disambiguation regardless, but "Dog" seems like the common name.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 13:01, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment Considering that most of the article consists of "He was named on top x of y" lists, with almost no in-depth discussion of the character and its development, should probably consider merging to Characters of Half-Life. Redirect D0g and Dog (Half-Life 2) to there. -- ferret (talk) 13:18, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Support Ferret's idea, redirect both. Second choice would be to support name change.  Dennis Brown - 2&cent; 21:05, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Support name change, since I can't find any reliable source using the "D0g" spelling, it's confusing, and as I said above, the game's subtitles (characters and developer commentary) use "Dog". Dogman15  ( talk )
 * Support Would agree. As I mentioned in an edit a long time ago, the name is Dog not D0g. Apap04 (talk) 22:04, 27 October 2017 (UTC)


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