Naming Background Ponies Thread!

Mildgyth
Best Pink Pony - For being the first person to reach 50k uploads, managing the site's featured images, and countless other contributions to the site.
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Guardian - Earned a place among the ranks of the most loyal New Lunar Republic soldiers (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Non-Fungible Trixie -

Senior Moderator
Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta
#303
 

 
Summer Joy wins by 8-5
 
#304
 

 
Trailhead wins by 4-3
 
#305, #306, #307
 

 
Green Filly: Spring Sprout wins by 7-5
 
Yellow filly: Autumn Saffron wins by 9-1
 
Indigo Filly: Thistle Rain wins by 6-4
 
#308
 

 
Skyquake wins by 6-3
 
#309
 

 
Ruby Slippers wins by 9-7
 
#310
 

 
Beat Cat wins by 7-2
 
#311
 

 
Topaz Gleam wins by 8-2
 
#317
 

 
Cornsilk wins by 6-3
 
#318
 

 
Bright Morning wins by 5-3
 
#319
 

 
Aquamarine Robe wins by 4-2
 
#320
 

 
Rosy Sapphire wins by 4-3
 
#321
 

 
Sprocket Pop wins by 8-1
 
#322
 

 
Sideshow Slim wins by 5-3
 
#323
 

 
Nephthys wins by 6-4
 
#324
 

 
Mosiah wins by 4-3
 
#325
 

 
Tut Jannah and Aten tie by 4-4
 
#326
 

 
Husani wins by 8-2
 
#327
 

 
Taperet wins by 5-3
Pulse Wave
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant

Busy procrastinating
Let’s see, I’ve named a background stallion (Northern Song a.k.a. George Harrison pone), one background mare (renamed Summer Breeze when we decided she isn’t Sugar Cookie), two movie background mares (Nougat Praliné, Dawn Sunrays) and one kirin (Green Grove a.k.a. quasi-rule 63 Forest Fall).
 
And my suggestion to do a clearer separation between Pink Lady and Gala Appleby has also been accepted recently, but these weren’t my names (I would have stuck with Cripps Pink instead of Pink Lady).
Chopsticks
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Betrayal! - Betrayed their team for a badge. Shame forever!
Crystal Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Verified Pegasus - Show us your gorgeous wings!
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~
Philomena - For helping others attend the 2021 community collab

Rice pone
Lol, I don’t keep up but sometimes I’d go to vote, see a name suggestion and say, “What idiot idea was that? Oh, that’s mine.” or, “Whoa, totally cool name! Sounds just like what I’d name that pony. Great minds think alike, who suggest… oh derp.”
 
Only one I remember was helping name Peppermint Goldylinks, and I just mix-and-matched different suggestions.
Mildgyth
Best Pink Pony - For being the first person to reach 50k uploads, managing the site's featured images, and countless other contributions to the site.
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Guardian - Earned a place among the ranks of the most loyal New Lunar Republic soldiers (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Non-Fungible Trixie -

Senior Moderator
Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta
Pulse Wave
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant

Busy procrastinating
Let’s see, I’ve named a background stallion (Northern Song a.k.a. George Harrison pone), one background mare (renamed Summer Breeze when we decided she isn’t Sugar Cookie), two movie background mares (Nougat Praliné, Dawn Sunrays) and one kirin (Green Grove a.k.a. quasi-rule 63 Forest Fall).
And my suggestion to do a clearer separation between Pink Lady and Gala Appleby has also been accepted recently, but these weren’t my names (I would have stuck with Cripps Pink instead of Pink Lady).
 
Forgot another movie pony: Winter Morning.
Chopsticks
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Betrayal! - Betrayed their team for a badge. Shame forever!
Crystal Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Verified Pegasus - Show us your gorgeous wings!
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~
Philomena - For helping others attend the 2021 community collab

Rice pone
@Chopsticks
Gavin is the wiki’s name for Grizzle of whom this character is a recolor. I think it’d get too confusing to use that name.
 
Who’s on the wiki naming committee anyway? Is it too hard to collaborate? Or are we just too slow?
 
Not that I care about a young Griffon without speaking lines, but ok.
cheezedoodle
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A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
The Power of Love - Given to a publicly verified artist with an image under their artist’s tag that has reached 1000 upvotes
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Thread Starter - OC Tag Description Requests
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
The Magic of Friendship Grows - For helping others attend the 2020 Community Collab
Dream Come True! - Participated in the MLP 9th Anniversary Event
Silver Bit -

Moderator
TagZombie: AC15, Atk +8
@Chopsticks  
Some of the names they end up picking actually came from our naming polls/thread, but they had a different winner. For example, Violet Twirl here is Soaring Virtue over there. They were both suggestions I had made for her:
 
@cheezedoodle  
Let’s start with her:
Perky Plume, Soaring Virtue, Violet Twirl were my suggestions.
There were a few votes in that image’s thread, if they are counted the totals are at Soaring Virtue (1), Violet Twirl (3)
 
It looks like Gavin is the same case (I thought it sounded familiar):  
@cheezedoodle  
Poll winners for 8/25/18:
Grizzle 4-3 over Gavin
 
I’m aliasing both the names to their derpi version. so people familiar with their name will find them over here.
Chopsticks
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Betrayal! - Betrayed their team for a badge. Shame forever!
Crystal Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Verified Pegasus - Show us your gorgeous wings!
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~
Philomena - For helping others attend the 2021 community collab

Rice pone
I figured as much / assumed so. I just wish the users of Behind the Voice Actors wouldn’t grab unofficial names (usually from the wiki) and stamp them into their website.
Pulse Wave
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant

Busy procrastinating
Who’s on the wiki naming committee anyway? Is it too hard to collaborate? Or are we just too slow?
 
It all happens on Reddit. It’s the only fan-driven name source they deem reliable, Wikipedia-style.
 
The only way for us to collaborate with them and keep their names in sync with us is:  
a) A few dozen of us have to join Reddit.  
b) Suggest our names, especially the one that won here.  
c) Everyone vote for our winning name and outvote the entire competition.
 
And even this will maybe only work until they’ve figured out we’ve rigged the polls.
 
Besides, sometimes even the Reddit polls aren’t accepted. Look at the Prince pony. Prance won the poll fair and square. But the Wiki picked Undertone. On the other hoof, the Wiki will probably stick to referring to Alula as Princess Erroria because that name won a poll that was heavily manipulated.
 
The only other way to keep the names fully in sync is by throwing away our names once the Wiki has got names for the same characters. Sadly, this would even make sense as many bronies see the Wiki as a law and use it as their only source of information, and even here on Derpibooru, an estimated 98% of all users don’t even know we’ve got a naming system on this site (also because an estimated 80% of all users aren’t even aware that Derpibooru has got forums). This is quite obvious by the many attempts at naming ponies in comments as well as occasional attempts at “correcting wrong names”, i.e. replacing names we’ve decided for in votes with names Reddit has decided for in votes which then made it onto the Wiki (and As We All Know™, a wiki is always right).
 
A compromise would be to use both our names and those from the Wiki. But that’d mean we’d have to closely watch the pony lists for changes and also look closely which characters have different names here and there. And it still wouldn’t get our names onto the Wiki.
 
That said, I loves me our names, and I don’t want to see them go.
The Equestrian Zodiac
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Thread Starter - Started a thread with over 100 pages
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant

Witch Dagger!
@Pulse Wave  
I’m still annoyed by that entire thing with Alula, since she really should not have had her name changed at all.
 
Nevermind the fact that the wiki seems to really dislike the idea of disambiguation too.
Pulse Wave
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant

Busy procrastinating
Also it absolutely sticks to the ruleset it has copied from Wikipedia upon its creation. This was agreed upon when the Wiki was created around season 1 when nobody could estimate what consequences this may have.
 
This means that fan sites do not count as reliable sources and must under no circumstances ever be used as such. Reddit is allowed because it is technically not a fan site.
 
So by the MLP:FiM Wiki’s standards, any and all names created by bronies that don’t appear on and aren’t confirmed by non-brony sites may just as well not exist at all.
 
This fell upon our feet, by the way, when the wave 3 blindbags came out. The outcry when the name “Lyra” was eliminated all over the Wiki (save for comments which don’t fall under the reliability rules) and replaced with “Heartstrings” (because that’s what Hasbro named her whereas any and all traces of her name being Lyra could only be found on unreliable sources and were therefore null and void) was huge, but it was directed against Hasbro rather than against the Wiki. This whole affair ended with Hasbro giving in and naming her “Lyra Heartstrings”.
 
(In comparison, almost nobody gave a flying feather about Trixie being named “Lulamoon” in the blindbags. Then again, the Wiki considers the show a more reliable and therefor higher-ranking source in comparison to Hasbro’s toy makers, so it stuck with “Trixie”. Besides, back then the Trixie fans were such a minority that they weren’t even vocal.)
The Equestrian Zodiac
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Thread Starter - Started a thread with over 100 pages
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant

Witch Dagger!
@Pulse Wave  
Yeah, which eventually let to Trixie being called Trixie Lulamoon as her full name, which I do remember people eventually agreeing on that being her full name.
 
Though I do think people were indifferent DT gaining a middle name.
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