Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-4801337-20190606201144/@comment-4801337-20190708162310

Main and Major are not really interchangeable. Major means they play important role; main means they're the primary/core focus i.e. series regulars. Like I said, Main is Major but Major is not necessarily Main. Just because you can call a professor a teacher doesn't mean "teacher" and "professor" mean the same thing. Not all teachers are professors.

Even if you can argue against that logic, I still think it's important to use language that's consistent with how everyone else out there defines them. We're not just writing a wiki for the editors. It's also for outsiders who are looking up information and hoping for consistency. There's a reason why every other site/wiki/wikipedia uses "main" for series regulars. Like have you ever seen a news article that uses "major cast" instead of "main cast"? It's always "main" unless they use "series regular" or "starring." If we defy the basic terminologies used everywhere else just because one editor decided to go with "major" in 2015, we might as well just invent our own language.

In some wikis like TVD, they even use "major recurring" to describe characters like Madi, Diyoza, Lexa who play major roles in the show but are not series regulars. But this can get tricky for some characters in the middle. So, I would stick to "recurring."