Thread:DeCool99/@comment-24264413-20170707011658/@comment-1669199-20170707021008

We don't use "fan names" for any articles we have covering species/characters/objects/etc. in official Sonic media that's never been given a proper name through said official media or other channels. Even if certain fan-given names grew to notable popularity, it still wouldn't change the fact that the names in question aren't official to any capacity, so therefore the best you could hope for is maybe seeing the name being given a brief mention in a trivia tab somewhere on one or more of our articles, if the names are indeed notable enough to warrant this kind of mentioning, but there'd be no guarantees of this happening if most of everyone on here feels that any given names aren't worth mentioning. Speaking for myself, I'm not going to let someone put a fan-name for something in a given subject's article if the name in question is only popular in only one or two websites, regardless of how large those websites may be -- I'd need to see many more places using such a name to a notable degree before I'd even consider letting the name be mentioned somewhere in an article.

Bottom line, fan-names, regardless of how popular they may be, are no substitute for actual given names and/or factually-accurate descriptions of any nameless topics, and Sonic News Network's main focus is to seek and document official, factual information about the Sonic the Hedgehog series, and it's because of this that we're not going to replace the name "Cosmo's Species" with whatever fan name the fandom comes up with.