Thread:MondlichtPanda/@comment-37484301-20200411232318/@comment-38116464-20200427000801

Jadelady wrote: This thing with 'alias' is hard. Sometimes "pet names" are just how someone calls other people (like being called "sweetie"). It appears Charlie calls MC "love" but could easily call Ginny or Jonas or Maggie "love" although I don't remember catching that. If we want to keep "love" as an alias, I'd probably have to add "darling" to AVsP MC because that's what Simon/Ava calls her. The way I understood it (and have edited before) is that anything used as a form of direct address and/or in place of a person's name counts as an alias, so "darling/love/babe/honey/sweetie"/all those other generic pet names would still count, as long as the one saying them only refers to one character that way.

That seems to be what's in the character guidelines, but I agree it's a bit murky. If we think these sorts of "aliases" are too generic and run the risk of confusing editors/readers, we should maybe adjust the guidelines themselves as well as the character pages.