Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-30486429-20171008102848/@comment-29955469-20171014222252

You can still call universes things like "Universe BRK" or "Universe T-Rex" or something. Universe 986 doesn't tell you that that universe has anything to do with T-Rex's

"Universe T-Rex" is only 2 characters longer than 986 (could be further shortened to things like U:T-Rex or have letter abbreviations rather than numbers if one were to sit down and think about it)... U:MC (Universe Mecha-Cobra) ... or use a theme or word associated.

There just isn't any reason to have them be numbered. You can just as easily track the universes in a cohesive order by putting them alphabetically or by universe. The order of numbers doesn't actually have any relevance. Right? Am I missing something? The order of the universes doesn't tell you the order in which they were created, or the order in which they take place chronologically, or anything other than it being a random number which, sure it's easy to remember for you if you work with it all the time, but it wouldn't be as easy to remember for others. If you know that someone's series is called "Bobwell Paradise" you can look up Universe Bobwell or U:Bobwell rather than "Universe 19940"

Universes could just as well (if not even better) be "Universe T-Rex" rather than "Universe 986", and that would be organized on the page under the letter T for T-Rex, or under "C" for CdrWikizilla, and so on. Insolitam under I, or maybe even divided under genre: Comedy universes, action universes, suspense universes, or whatever. It just has to be thought out, it's very simple.

As for the "it isn't mandatory for characters to have universe," well, that's fine, and that wouldn't really affect anything whether the wiki stays with numbered universes or with named universes.

I am kinda assuming that there isn't really a reason to not go through with this change other than everyone here being used to/liking the numbered universes/thinking "it's not that bad, no need to go through a massive change to fix it"....., or the idea originally coming from like Marvel comics "Earth-416" and it seeming like a good idea.... I understand. I am suggesting this change to improve organizing. If it's too much of a hassle for everyone to rename all their universes, that's fine, but I think maybe you should also allow named universes (following a template... like I said, Universe Bobwell or U:Bobwell or U/Bobwell etc.) and not force universes to be numbered, and make another page for "List of named universes"... Eventually you can make the change when/if you want. I don't want to force everyone to go on every page and change "Universe 8888" to "Universe Obama", since that would take too long without a bot, but, I'm just saying.