Talk:List of ponies/Earth ponies/@comment-4906582-20140712133548/@comment-166269-20140714074011

@PonyRelated "Though I'm not sure if it really counts as official, if it's just in a game, where they made the names up and never looked at the fandom names for them."

Actually, Gameloft pays a considerable amount of attention to what the fandom does when they add/name new ponies to the game; there have been a number of ponies whose fan names have been elevated to official status via the game (in fact, as far as I can tell, most cases where an official name differs from the fandom-preferred name boil down to some trademark or other legal issue with the fan name). Now, whether they look very far beyond the wiki is anyone's guess, but from the amount of fanart that has appeared in the game and related media, it's obvious they at least look at DeviantArt as well.

And this leads me to a related thought: should we perhaps note cases where fan names have been made official, not just via the Gameloft game, but by any means? Surely I'm not the only person that finds that type of thing interesting, but is it actually interesting enough to note?