User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130519181606/@comment-7302713-20130520015111

I know that it's available if you look deeper. And I'm not saying that being able to look at the nav box and instantly be able to tell how many companions have middle names is important.

I'm saying that I see advantages to not pipe tricking. Most importantly, someone who is new to this wiki and looking for a companion name might only know a last name even if the first name is more common. If might never occur to them to mouse over to see if more information is available (which is also, btw, pretty tedious).

Maybe the advantages to keeping the full names are small. I don't know. But I see advantages. If there was an obvious advantage to pipe tricking away part of the companions names, I missed it. What does pipe-tricking away names get us exactly?

Yes, the reasons not to pipe away might be minor. But piping away isn't default. We should have a reason to do something, not just little evidence that doing it is bad.