owloysius makes more sense since it’s a play on words on an actual name, aluysious

@Background Pony #EDB5
 
I was among the few to automatically make “Heartstrings” Lyra’s surname, long before it was made official. No wanking involved whatsoever.

The latter

@Enkidu  
Similar to how Cadance was supposed to be Cadence, but Hasbro decided Cadance was better.

@The Smiling Pony  
Yeah, that seems to be what Hasbro wants it to be, looking at the evidence here.

Aliased to Owlowiscious, going by Lauren’s first words on the thing and the name on the cards.

Owl O’Wishes. He’s actually part leprechaun.

Owlbert Camus.

that’s not how you spell “useless piece of shit”

@Background Pony  
Consensus… What actually happened was like this:  
A /co/ anon among the first people to watch the show: “This pony looks funny. Her hair has toothpaste-like colors. She has no name, so I call her ‘Colgate’, because it’s funny.”  
Then it got added to the Wiki, because the Wiki accepted fanon freely at that time.  
Then, as the community grew, everyone learned her name as ‘Colgate’ and got used to it.  
Then, when she happened to finally get an official name, people got confused: “But isn’t her name Colgate? People said so… :o”

I’m pretty sure it’s Owlowiscious.

@Rainbow Dude  
I’m actually going to agree with you. “Minuette” is a MUCH better name than “Colgate”. ‘Course, I also think the brushie/dentist fanon around her is dumb. Yet, who am I to go against the consensus?
 
But I’m sure you’ve been in the fandom long enough to remember the Lyra/Heartstrings shitstorm. Hasbro had to go in and adjust their trademark to get everyone to shut up.

@PonyFlea  
It matters at this case, because she was involved with the naming of the owl, AND because her saying was confirmed by Hasbro’s Trading Cards.

@Background Pony  
I use it; I actually like it. Though I also use “Carrot Top”, which is an official in-universe nickname for her.  
And I also love Minuette, which is infinitely better than her fan nickname.

@Rainbow Dude  
The official canonical name for Carrot Top is “Golden Harvest”, but nobody uses that because it’s terrible.

What I mean is, nothing she said matters anymore.
 

Seriously, TSP. “Owlowiscious” was used way more prominently. And Lauren - who was directing the show at the time the owl was named - confirmed his name is spelled like that. It is only reasonable that we use the correct spelling.  
(Plus, it is totally MY fault that the tag “Owloysius” outnumbered the other, if you check the Tag Changes of the earlier posts. I made a huge mistake and never corrected it.)

@PonyFlea  
Irrelevant. She stated it before she left.

@PonyFlea  
She said it when she was in charge.

Lauren’s not in charge anymore…

Lauren said it is Owlowiscious. So, it is Owlowiscious.

@Itsthinking  
It’s not an actual rage, dude. I’m just one of those holdouts that doesn’t like to misspell. I’ve got a music background, so it’s taken some time to get used to writing Cadance’s name incorrectly. I’m well aware it’s her proper name, and I also acknowledge Hasbro may not have been able to trademark the standard spelling due to its commonality (although they managed to get “Rarity” past legal).
 
_{We were having such a nice conversation in the other thread, too :(}

In that case TSP I am putting my vote in for Cadence :D

 

@The Smiling Pony  
Lauren herself admitted “Owloysius” is how it probably should have been spelled.
 
We’re not MLPWiki, so we don’t have to always abide by strict canon. If you’re thinking about doing an alias, my vote goes to which tag is more popular.
 
In this case, “Owloysius” is currently tagged nearly three times as often as “Owlowiscious”. Therefore, I think the former should win out.