Name Rules

Since I can not provide individual feedback, here is a list of reasons why I have not done requested name changes. If you submitted a change, and it was not done, you will almost certainly find the reason on this list:

• Misplaced name parts - e.g. in names like "Alfred of Somewhere", the "of" part (or "von", "de", whatever in other languages) belongs to the family name, not the first name.
• Inappropriate names or callsigns - a name should be a name and not a designation. Titles like "duke", "king", etc. are obviously inacceptable, but other kinds of "titles" are the same. "John the Great" will be rejected.
• Meshed names - if it appears that you misunderstood the page and put both character and family name into one field, we will cut out your request to save you from pain.
• CamelCase Names, 1337-sp34k or other nonsense - I will make exceptions for obvious cases (e.g. "DeWitt"), but in case of doubt, any instance of CamelCase means your name is out. And any letters or punctuation marks, too.
• Proper english words and phrases as names will only be accepted if they are professions (Miller, Smith) or other words that I subjectively understand as having been used as names. This is doubly true for "cool" and "Internet" names. "Vampirekiller" is a no-doubt rejection case, as is virtually anything with "Blood" or "Power", etc. in it.
• Cases of confusion - some names looked as if they were intended the other way around, i.e. a first name that looks much more like it should have been a family name or the other way around.
• Multiple submissions - if you changed your mind and submitted several changes for the same, I've picked one at random or so. No, for technical reasons choosing the last one wasn't possible. If some looked like they were fixes (spelling, case, etc.) to earlier ones, I did pick those, however.
• Duplicates - finally, a very few changes could be lost because someone else changed to the same name. Sorry, nothing I can do there. Who "won" in those cases is largely random.

In general, the standard for family names was higher than for character names.

If none of these reasons can possibly fit for you, then there is still the small chance that your request was simply lost. It shouldn't happen, but as with all things, it still might anyway.