Thread:Mrmoptop2/@comment-26553264-20200425004636/@comment-5436147-20200426023426

You make a good point. This consistency issue has been present since I adopted this wiki and I never went full in on watching all the Fred material out there to make changes towards making everything consistent, so I'm glad that you're looking into it. I think you're right that the articles should probably be renamed to just the full name of the characters as present in the lore that character is presented in. For example, Kevin's article should just be titled "Kevin" and then list his alternate names both in his infobox and in a section in the introduction giving explanations to his other names. "Thalia Libo" should be the article title I think and then just note the discrepancy in the article (leave redirects behind too unless you feel like personally sorting through every page).

The lore of the series is obviously played fast and loose so I think it's best just to note inconsistencies in sections of the article where fit. As far as I'm aware, the series goes: Web series > Cartoon (if the cartoon isn't concurrent with the web series) > Movies > TV show > New Fred arc (and then subsequent Lucas content I guess if that would be considered canon). I have not seen the movies in years and I have not seen much of the show or the cartoon so I'm not exactly sure, but I assume that they weren't made with much forethought into how they would be sequenced so this just seems to make sense. If there are details to be noted as to why one thing my precede or succeed another, I would be willing to hear the argument. The thing that is most backwards is the retconning that the show and movies have potentially (probably) done. This could make it so the Nickelodeon Fred is almost on a different timeline from the original, but unless there is significant evidence to prove that, I would rather keep a clean timeline in order and just note inconsistencies.

Side note to that last paragraph, but now that I think about it Fred did have albums that were made "by him" and the behind-the-scenes videos taking place on set of the show/movie have Cruikshank acting in character as Fred. We could have a situation where maybe the lore is that Fred the character got famous in the Fred timeline and the show and movies could be contrived as him playing himself in the films and show with his mom and friends being played by standard actors. Think like in Seinfeld when Jerry gets his own show and Kramer, George, and Elaine are played by other people but Jerry plays himself. That's worth a discussion in itself, but now that I thought of it I keep thinking that it makes a lot of sense, especially with the New Fred arc taken into account. Let me know your thoughts on that one.

So to end, change the character article names to be the name they've been consistently referred to by and make notes in infoboxes and intros where necessary. I'm really putting thought into this new idea in the lore that the Fred Movie/Show is just Fred recontextualizing his life. Might need to really look at the series to go about proving that.