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Shouldn't unnamed objects have names? Seriously. Pseudo-random combinations of bland numbers tell almost nothing about its structure.

(P. S. This one should be named "Long Beacon", in my opinion, as it has a beacon as a rotor and a, well, ''long'' stator that stabilizes itself.) {{unsigned|MrConway'sInvisibleDog}}

== Enumeration system clarification ==

18P2.471

"18" Is the population of the oscillator

"P2" is the period

".471" normally means the 471st oscillator discovered of that period and population, but depends on the enumeration system. {{unsigned|Gmc nxtman}}


==Using apgcodes as LifeWiki titles==

With the recent creation of [[xs15_3lkia4z32]], I was wondering if this page could be similarly renamed to the pattern's apgcode. In my opinion, this has two advantages over the present name:
* The pentadecathlon.com archives aren't very popular nowadays and don't have most of the patterns discovered in the current decade, such as the loafer.
* Mark Niemiec's webpage has similar systematic names, using a different numbering scheme to disambiguate patterns (although not this one in particular).
Would it be okay if I moved this page to [[xp2_caabaiczw32]]?
[[User:Gameoflifeboy|Gameof]][[User talk:Gameoflifeboy|life]][[Special:Contributions/Gameoflifeboy|boy]] 03:42, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
===On the new name of the page===
@[[User:Entity Valkyrie]], why do you think that [[18P2.caabaiczw32]] is a better name than [[xp2_caabaiczw32]]? You could have at least left a message before moving the page&mdash;I was allowing an informed decision to be formed on what to call this object, not inviting the unexplained moving of a page according to one user's idea of what name to use.

If you had run this name by me before moving the page, I would have explained why I don't think that [[18P2.caabaiczw32]] is a very good choice of name: this is the first time I saw a pattern named with a pentadecathlon ID and apgcode mashup, and a novel naming system should only really be developed when the old ones completely fail. So, I would appreciate it if you could explain why you don't support my proposal of the name [[xp2_caabaiczw32]] for this page. For now, I will be moving this page back to its old name of [[18P2.471]].
[[User:Gameoflifeboy|Gameof]][[User talk:Gameoflifeboy|life]][[Special:Contributions/Gameoflifeboy|boy]] 01:49, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

As I have not heard any objection to my proposal of the title [[xp2_caabaiczw32]] in almost two weeks, I will be moving this page to that title now. [[User:Gameoflifeboy|Gameof]][[User talk:Gameoflifeboy|life]][[Special:Contributions/Gameoflifeboy|boy]] 05:23, 7 January 2019 (UTC)