We discussed making these events more of a verb, so the above might be something like event :fsm_request_create, but in the interest of not holding things up right now, I would be ok with merging this and calling it a refactor later.  My only concern is that the observers you are working on are likely calling the above methods, so the longer we wait to change these names, the more work it will be.  

I am also actually starting to wonder if we should just use these methods directly in the controller instead of the AR methods (well, at least for destroy), since we don't actually want to call those methods in many cases.  Just musing on this latter point, but wanted to mention it so you would have a chance to consider it.  I may try this out in whatever chunk I grab (once I know exactly what part you are working on) and see how it would look/work.