# Talk:Mandalorian (character)

I was unsure of what this should be titled, but made it in the same format as The Child (Star Wars character). HAL333 19:20, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

The title for this article is slightly cumbersome. Should it be moved to The Mandalorian (Star Wars)? The page for baby yoda: The Child (Star Wars), is in the same format. What do you think?HAL333 07:20, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

The issue is that The Mandalorian (Star Wars) is likely to be confused with The Mandalorian or even the redirect The Mandalorian (TV series). This is not the case with The Child (Star Wars). Also, the show name by itself as a disambiguation is most commonly used for the names of individual episodes, as in "Enter Alexis (Dynasty)".— TAnthonyTalk 19:16, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
Good point.HAL333 22:16, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
But I actually just noticed the previous move proposal to The Mandalorian (character), which I would have supported. Technically the Star Wars is unnecessary disambiguation, as there are not and won't ever be other characters called The Mandalorian in other franchises. WP:NCDAB reads (in part):
3. Parenthetical disambiguation. A disambiguating word or phrase can be added in parentheses. The word or phrase in parentheses should be:
the generic class (avoiding proper nouns, as much as possible) that includes the topic, as in Mercury (element), Seal (emblem)
A lot of character articles seem to unnecessarily include the show/franchise, but we have Jon Snow (character).— TAnthonyTalk 16:13, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect The Mandalorian (Star Wars). Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  Steel1943 (talk) 18:22, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Hello, it seems like this article could use mention of the character not having a signet and then getting one based on the mudhorn creature. It seems like The Armorer has some signet-related content that could be mentioned here too. In the same vein, perhaps some mention of this character and The Child being a "clan of two". Possible sources include [1], [2], [3]. Pinging Hunter Kahn as the primary contributor. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 19:13, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

I don't think this has enough merit to justfy its own section. It's a plot point that doesn't have any supplemental details that affect the rest of the story. --GimmeChoco44 (talk) 03:06, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
I agree that it does not need its own section. I think it should be woven somewhere in the existing sections, though, based on the aforementioned links. If the signet is to be covered anywhere among the set of articles, this is the best one. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 10:48, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

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I think that we should use a different image for the article. The image currently used shows him in his original armor. However, he only wore that for the first two episodes. By the third episode, he got new armor that he has worn in every episode since. JDDJS (talk to me • see what I've done) 00:54, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

The image with the old armor was the promotional photo that was widely used and available to all before the show was released. If you want to use a different image the hard part is choosing a different suitable image and getting the Copyright/fair use rationale sorted out. Ideally it would be another widely used publicity image. Also you will need to pick an image that other editors wont complain about so it needs to be a fairly similar headshot profile type picture. So if you're volunteering grasp the nettle and deal with hassle of the copyright process and difficultly of picking an image that people wont say is worse then please go for it (but it is such a hassle I wouldn't even try add a non-free image to Wikipedia). Good luck with that. -- 109.79.68.156 (talk) 15:06, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

The character's real name (Din Djarin) has caught up. I mean, who calls him "The Mandalorian" now? The article title for Cobb Vanth is not 'The Marshal (character)'. So, I think that the article should by moved to Din Djarin.--Sudipto Surjo (talk) 04:02, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

I don't think we're there yet. (Cobb Vanth is different, an already established character brought to live-action. Cobb Vanth was his name, The Marshal was only an episode title.) The characters in the show don't call The Mandalorian by his birthname Din Djarin, he gets called Mando mostly. You could make an argument for WP:COMMONNAME if Disney used the name Din Djarin more often but I'm not seeing it used for merchandise or anything like that either. The article title "The Mandalorian (character)" still seems like the best title for the page and it was repeatedly discussed and decided already. -- 109.77.210.114 (talk) 22:30, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
Having been discussed in the past is not particularly relevant. The most recent was over a year ago and had been nearly a year when the argument was made. The character is referred to as Din Djarin in every other major wiki covering the topic, many general-purpose publications are using his name in article titles now [example][example][example], characters are referring to him as Din Djarin, and, most importantly IMO, he's no longer even A Mandalorian, let alone THE Mandalorian. Now, on that last point, that may be fixed any number of ways, so if that's the only argument anybody considers to have any merit then waiting to see would be valid, but it appears to me the growing prominence of his real name is at the very least at a tipping point, if not already past it. CamdenQ (talk) 06:13, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
In my opinion it depends on if you want Wikipedia to be for Star Wars nerds or for everybody. I've seen most of the movies and TV shows but never read any novels. So I might be called a fan but not super fan and the name "Din Djarin" only occured to me in a Wikipedia article and nowhere else. At first I didn't know who that is whereas "The Mandalorian" was well known to me. Actually I found it rather strange that he was refered to as Din Djarin all the time instead of the Mandalorian because noone calls him by that name. If you want to name articles after the "real" name or birth name of someone instead of the most well known name a lot of articles about celebrities would have to be changed as well. Or take Princess Leia for instance. Her article would have to be called Leia Organa because Princess is not her name but her title. But everybody knows her as Princess Leia so the article title is perfectly fine. And the same goes with The Mandalorian because everybody knows him as such.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.187.214.15 (talk) 11:57, 10 February 2022 (UTC)