Talk:War against the Iron Horde/@comment-6335668-20141028110321/@comment-24135210-20141115071731

I feel an appropriate way to look at this would be to take a moment to look back at our own naming conventions of history. One that specifically comes to mind are the lables of "The Bronze Age" and "The Iron Age". Both of these cover broad, extremely broad even, sections of our history. It is given that short name, however, simply as a means of reference. It doesn't sound very professional, and if we're going to be honest "World War I" and "World War II" are referential names as well. "War against the Iron Horde" would definetly be used, but mostly as a term to explain what happened during a section of history. Even if the Wikia goes to officially dub it as such, it's likely people are going to get lazy and call it something short. On the flipside, if the Wikia dubs it the Iron War, people could stretch the name out to be fancy and official.

In the end though, I would personally vote for the more "punchy" (As Everen put it) naming convention used on the articles themselves, with the article being introduced with the alternative official names used. From there we can have proper misdirects, so that all the names really go to the same place.