Talk:Sage familiars

How does one sort out Foil the player from Foil the sword? --Zava 07:33, 1 April 2006 (PST)
 * Foil --Guppymomma 07:38, 1 April 2006 (PST)

Hypnotoad and his Testicles
To be honest, I find it somewhat hard to believe that an OM would allow that as a familiar name. Actually, how are they named? Does the player get to choose, or is it decided by the OM? --Emufarmers 09:53, 25 April 2006 (PDT)
 * /me giggles at the heading - Nah, there's no way to offically name one. It's sort of a roleplaying thing, like getting married in the game. Hovering over an octo with your mouse will just read Octopus. --Zava 09:59, 25 April 2006 (PDT)
 * Oh, ok. So if I ever win a familiar, I can name it Hawtbewbzslewtwh0r if I want? :P --Emufarmers 10:15, 25 April 2006 (PDT)
 * It's a very immature play on words *mutters* tentacles... --Sagacious 10:21, 25 April 2006 (PDT)
 * That's Hypnotoad for you. --Thunderbird 10:45, 25 April 2006 (PDT)

Isn't the current entry for Hypnotoad's familiar somewhat dishonest? Why not just say Name censored or something, instead of claiming it is unknown? Seems that claiming it is unknown will only cause the curious to seek it out. At any rate, such deliberate dishonesty in an encyclopedia is a little distasteful.--Talisker 17:31, 1 May 2006 (PDT)
 * The marvelous thing about a wiki is that anyone can edit it. Please go ahead.  --Barrister 17:46, 1 May 2006 (PDT)
 * As the name had alread been removed once, I figured I'd ask a policy question instead of starting an edit war. --Talisker 17:50, 1 May 2006 (PDT)
 * Ah, my mistake. With phrases like "deliberate dishonesty" and "a little distasteful," I thought you were just ranting.  As a wiki-admin, you have my blessing to indicate that Hypnotoad's chosen a non-family-friendly name for his familiar.  --Barrister 17:59, 1 May 2006 (PDT)
 * I probably did phrase poorly. My apologies. Done and done, thanks for the suggestion, Barrister! --Talisker 18:40, 1 May 2006 (PDT)
 * Well, technically, Artemis edited it saying, "Hypnotoad can pick a new name," so I was under the impression that he would have to do so; i.e. a forced rename of some sort ("unofficial" or not)...But I guess if it's deemed allowable for it to visible in, say, his portraits, but censored on this page; whatever works, really. I just hope an OM doesn't barge in yelling later. (Or maybe I'm just a prude.) --Emufarmers 19:39, 1 May 2006 (PDT)