>[!meta-dates] >- **Created:** 2025-07-09 >- **Last updated:** >- **Author:** TJ Trewin ## A literal approach to placeholder names In my opinion, placeholder names should *really* sound like placeholders. The longer a placeholder name is used, the more you (or your audience) get attached to it, which can make changing it later down the line troublesome if everyone keeps calling it by the old temporary name. Unless I've got an interesting or meaningful name already in mind, I'm going to use boring, literal-named placeholders as I build my world 😆 Expect to see some incredible fantasy worldbuilding placeholder names such as: - PLANET_A - MOON_A1 - CONTINENT_A - COUNTRY_A1 - SETTLEMENT_A1-1 - FOLK-SPECIES_1 - DEITY_A - RELIGION_A1 There's a few downsides to this approach: firstly, it's going to mean that URLs to such pages will change when it gets a proper name. This can be mitigated by not making a note for it *until* it has a name. Secondly, it's kinda ugly - but I'm hoping that will motivate me to prioritise naming languages or to consider what the common equivalent meaning of its name would be (e.g. *place of iridescent fungi*).