Talk:Sweetie Drops/@comment-7345250-20150615201103/@comment-4531340-20150620020813

Well, the reason for it being Twilight Sparkle instead of Princess Twilight Sparkle is because the depictions of her in the show with her being called "Twilight Sparkle" still outweigh those of her being called "Princess Twilight Sparkle". As has been stated before, the show trumps all (as Throwy said below, it probably should be added to the style guide, as it's one of those policies that seems to be followed but doesn't seem to be written down anywhere - the order of primary name determination).

While the credits (and seemingly by extension, episode titles) have been determined to be not such a reliable source for spelling of names (such as Soarin vs Soarin', Pinky vs Pinkie [though to be fair that also always appeared in the season one and two credits, and all episodes which Pinkie had a speaking role in after that], Apple Bloom vs Applebloom [same case as Pinkie, except that misspelling occurred a couple times in the season three onward credits], or like you brought up, Appleloosa vs Appleoosa), wherein the pronunciation of the names is similar, if not the exact same, I don't know of any way to pronounce Bon Bon as Sweetie Drops in English (and vice-versa).

As this is a wiki about the show, first and foremost, the usage in the show automatically trumps the merchandise - since both Sweetie Drops and Bon Bon are used, ideally, then the credits should be turned to for determination (not for spelling, but in cases of completely different names - such as when it was decided that Trixie Lulamoon was referring to the human version of Trixie from the EG world). "Bon Bon" appearing in the credits is unambiguous because it occurs in the same episode where this pony is called by both names. Is "Sweetie Drops" appearing in the credits for the Rainbow Rocks shorts package that aired on TV ambiguous? I'd argue that it is, because since there's no speaking role for the human version of this pony in any of those eight shorts, I can see only two possibilities:
 * 1) That credit was in error
 * 2) The human version of this pony did have a speaking role in one of the shorts, but it was cut out of the final version (similar to Mayor Mare in Magic Duel, but that's unlikely and would need confirmation from a crew member)

That should have addressed all the points you brought up, I hope (if not, there's always the option to continue this discussion), and I sincerely apologize for the heinous tardiness of this reply (I've been feeling a bit under the weather pretty much all week long)