Forum:Changing the site name

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Previously Pokémon Wiki was known as The Pokémon Encyclopedia I was thinking we could change our name back to Pokémon Encyclopedia to welcome in X and Y. The reasoning for this is because we can give the entire site a facelift and changing the site name is part of that. The URL will stay the same, but Pokémon Encyclopedia sounds better. I've changed the Facebook account to focus on the new name. So we might as well change to follow suit with the social networking information. The Twitter and the Tumblr have been re-opened under "Pokémon Encyclopedia", all that needs changing is the wiki name.

Voting

Support: As nominator. – Jazzi (talk) 14:59, July 4, 2013 (UTC)

Support: Shorter, simpler and better. Energy X 15:15, July 4, 2013 (UTC)

Neutral: I am not too sure about changing the site name to Pokémon Encyclopedia?{{SUBST:User:King Marth 64/Sig}} 16:06, July 4, 2013 (UTC)

Comment: Changing the name would allow the social networks to be synced with the wiki and it just sounds better. – Jazzi (talk) 16:34, July 4, 2013 (UTC)

Support:The idea is sound in principle and would work very well I think.Markrogers (talk) 19:29, July 4, 2013 (UTC)

Oppose: Firstly, it sounds like the name has already been changed, and you can only change the site name once. Also, almost all wikis hosted under Wikia are named "The (xyz) Wiki", so why should the Pokémon wiki be any different. We would also need to re-design the wordmark and change a lot of links to the main page (for example, the Pokémon Wiki: namespace will move to The Pokémon Encyclopedia: namespace). Iggyvolz (Talk) 14:09, July 5, 2013 (UTC)