User blog:Cookiefonster/Another proposal

I've noticed that when pages on numbers list all the different names people have given them, they phrase it in a way I don't like at all: "[person] calls this number [name]." It makes it sound like they're the names each of those people actually use to call those numbers in all their work, instead of just different names devised for the same number.

Other people may feel differently, but to speaking personally, things like all those extensions to Bowers' names for BEAF constructions that I devised years ago aren't anything I would say I "call" them, especially not in contrast to the names Bowers himself would devise later on in his updates to his large number pages. Hell, I don't even remember coming up with half of those names.

I suggest, instead, phrasing it as "[person] coined the name [name] for this number". On pretty much every article on numbers that have different names for it devised by different people (besides ones I fixed myself), I see this very strange phrasing. I think the wiki would benefit from changing the way all of these are phrased.

What do you guys think about that?