Robot Wars Wiki talk:Style Guide/Robot Names

There's a massive area we have yet to cover here, and that stems along the lines of what to do with how do we classify two identically-named robots used by the same team, but built by different people, or loanerbots/replacement robots modified to assume the identity of a withdrawn competitor...and more importantly, where the information regarding said robot should go. There are three examples of this - Nemesis being used in place of Terror Australis, Humdrum being used in place of Joker and Hard being used in place of...well, Hard. At the moment, all of these robots have their own separate pages, but there are some inconsistencies as to how they're set up. This boils down to two questions that I feel we should answer... CrashBash (talk)

Should they be separate?

 * For me, this is a straight forward Yes. These robots are not simply sequels in the same style as, say, the various Ming or Tetanus robots. They are simply temporary replacements, not built by the team they are being given to. CrashBash (talk) 14:38, October 14, 2017 (UTC)

Where should information go?

 * As far as I'm personally concerned, all information regarding the robots' history, or at the very least the bulk of it, should go 'with the replacement robot, not the robot it was replacing. So, for example, whilst Joker's team did compete across all three US series, US Season 1 should not be on Joker's page, but on Humdrum's page (as it is right now) because that's the robot they used...it was just named Joker, but that doesn't make it Joker. CrashBash (talk) 14:38, October 14, 2017 (UTC)