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Which only leaves the audio adaptation of the original comic for someone to examine... but at the moment, it seems rather likely to me that in terms of occurrences and usages that this page should in-fact be at '''The Meep''' with a redirect on "Beep the Meep". Interested to hear the thoughts of others on this. <br><span style="background:purple; border:1px solid #777777; padding:1px 3px 1px 3px; margin-left:4px; font-size:.9em;'''<!---moz-border-radius:1ex;--> border-radius-topleft:1ex;border-top-left-radius:1ex; border-bottom-left-radius:1ex; -moz-border-radius-bottomright:0ex; -moz-border-radius-topright:0ex;">[[User:JDPManjoume|<span style="color:white> JDPManjoume </span>]]'''<span style=background:black;padding:2px;color:#f2f3f4>Regular Editor</span> [[User talk:JDPManjoume|<font color="#ffffff" title="Talk to me">☎</font>]] [[Special:Contributions/JDPManjoume|<font color="#ffffff" title="See what I've been up to">✍</font>]]</span> <span style="border: 1px solid #2f2cb8; padding:1px; border-radius-topright:1ex;border-top-right-radius:1ex; border-bottom-right-radius:1ex; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:0ex; -moz-border-radius-topleft:0ex; background-color:#ececec; color:#2f2cb8;font-size:.88em;font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Gadget, 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold','Gill Sans Ultra Bold','Arial Black',sans-serif;"> 18:02, 8 March 2024 (UTC) | Which only leaves the audio adaptation of the original comic for someone to examine... but at the moment, it seems rather likely to me that in terms of occurrences and usages that this page should in-fact be at '''The Meep''' with a redirect on "Beep the Meep". Interested to hear the thoughts of others on this. <br><span style="background:purple; border:1px solid #777777; padding:1px 3px 1px 3px; margin-left:4px; font-size:.9em;'''<!---moz-border-radius:1ex;--> border-radius-topleft:1ex;border-top-left-radius:1ex; border-bottom-left-radius:1ex; -moz-border-radius-bottomright:0ex; -moz-border-radius-topright:0ex;">[[User:JDPManjoume|<span style="color:white> JDPManjoume </span>]]'''<span style=background:black;padding:2px;color:#f2f3f4>Regular Editor</span> [[User talk:JDPManjoume|<font color="#ffffff" title="Talk to me">☎</font>]] [[Special:Contributions/JDPManjoume|<font color="#ffffff" title="See what I've been up to">✍</font>]]</span> <span style="border: 1px solid #2f2cb8; padding:1px; border-radius-topright:1ex;border-top-right-radius:1ex; border-bottom-right-radius:1ex; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:0ex; -moz-border-radius-topleft:0ex; background-color:#ececec; color:#2f2cb8;font-size:.88em;font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Gadget, 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold','Gill Sans Ultra Bold','Arial Black',sans-serif;"> 18:02, 8 March 2024 (UTC) | ||
:: Good scholarship! But what I always want to bring up to conversations on this topic is that we're not, I think, trivially dealing with ''conflicting'' names here. We might very well be dealing with a character who ''simultaneously'': | |||
* Is a Meep, such that characters might refer to them as "the Meep" without that really being a ''proper name''; | |||
* Has the personal name of "Beep" (and is sometimes called "Beep the Meep" as a result); | |||
* Sometimes actively goes by "the Meep" as a personal title; | |||
* Holds the rank of Beep Of All The Meeps. | |||
:: (Yes, "Beep" could very well be ''both'' a title and a name — why not? A woman called Princess could certainly marry a prince and become Princess Princess. We can quite easily read the sources we have as simply documenting "Beep the Meep, Beep of All The Meeps".) | |||
:: Hence I don't think "Beep the Meep" is necessarily inappropriate even if a majority of sources go with simply "the Meep", any more than [[Petronella Osgood]] is made inappropriate by most sources going with simply "Osgood". | |||
:: (I do separately want to stress the first bullet point: I think there is a difference between people referring to "the Meep" because this particular member of Meepkind happens to be the only one to hand, and instances of the character self-identifying as ''the'' Meep properly speaking. I don't think the "Meep vs. Beep" tally entirely reflects this subtlety.) --[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 18:53, 8 March 2024 (UTC) | |||
