Forum:Totally Legitimate non-Acronymic Abbreviations

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Neumannz — Looks like I'm gonna have to jump...! TALK — I work alone! Except when I work with Xion...which is all the time. — 00:16, 25 May 2012 (UTC)   How married are we to writing out every game title in full every time it pops up in an article? It's painfully annoying and looks rather silly. It should be alright to use, say "Birth by Sleep" in an article body if the full title has just been used. These should be considered fully legitimate abbreviations, especially the following, which appear in the Chronicle in KH3D. Chain of Memories 358/2 Days Birth by Sleep coded

Discussionizing and Commentation

Neumannz — Looks like I'm gonna have to jump...! TALK — I work alone! Except when I work with Xion...which is all the time. — 00:16, 25 May 2012 (UTC)   Thoughts?

maggosh The steel is forged... — "Souls as far as the eye can see..." "If you want light to rule over all, then you must rid the world of everything else." I completely agree.

Chitalian8 Say... — Only by allowing strangers in can we find new ways to be ourselves. Life's little crossroads are often as simple as the pull of a trigger. — 01:50, 25 May 2012 (UTC) Hear, hear.

Yup, let's do it. LightRoxas"So many are still waiting for their new beginning, their birth by sleep. Even me... and even you."

UxieLover1994 Tiempo de morder de nuevo con el poder! El tema de hoy: su sorpresa! — 02:35, 25 May 2012 (UTC) Good idea. I'm for it. (I'm using an IP because I'm not on my home computer. I'm at my uncle's)

Neumannz — Looks like I'm gonna have to jump...! TALK — I work alone! Except when I work with Xion...which is all the time. — 22:22, 21 June 2012 (UTC)   I'm bumping this topic. I would very much like to make this a real policy change for us.

ShardofTruth Once you believe, truth and lie are quite the same thing. — 23:17, 21 June 2012 (UTC) I think this is not a bad idea though "coded" might be difficult to pull off sometimes.

Eternal Nothingness XIII - Ven, Aqua... I'll find some way to make things right. TALK - This light... it's so warm. — 01:21, 22 June 2012 (UTC) IF and only IF the full title has just been used. Saying "Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep" 10 hundred times is sheer redundancy. Can't believe this is even an issue! EDIT: (02:00, 22 June 2012 (UTC) - I would also like to ask that if we're going to be abbreviating titles, we only use what the games use, the kind of thing Neumannz listed (358/2 Days, Birth by Sleep, etc.). We should NEVER use "KH3D", "BBS", or even something like "Days" in an article!

maggosh The steel is forged... — "Souls as far as the eye can see..." "If you want light to rule over all, then you must rid the world of everything else." You do know KHBBS and KH3D are official terms used in Ultimanias, right?

Eternal Nothingness XIII - This heart belongs again to darkness. All worlds begin in darkness, and all so end. The heart is no different. Darkness sprouts within it—it grows, consumes it. Such is its nature. In the end, every heart returns to the darkness whence it came. TALK - Your body submits, your heart succumbs—so why does your mind resist? — 02:24, 22 June 2012 (UTC) You do know it's unprofessional to use acronyms like that in the articles save for those tag thingines we use in the galleries, right?

Like I said from the beginning--or rather, in the name of this thread--this is not about acronyms. We will not be using acronyms in the body of an article. So don't worry about those. --Neumannz, The Dark Falcon 02:38, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

KrytenKoro - "Space Corp Directive 195—In an emergency power situation, a hologrammatic crew member must lay down his life in order that the living crew members might survive."  "Yes, but Rimmer Directive 271 states just as clearly: 'No chance, you metal bastard.'" TALK - Oh thank goodness we can do that now.

I am for them; just italicise them as always. coded would render better in text like this, for instance. Helping others always comes before asking others for help. • TroisNyxÉtienne — 20:50, 21 July 2012 (UTC)