>>36715641Kinda, yeah. By all rights, Leaf should NEVER have been called Leaf, he just stuck with it for over a decade contrary to what the logical names should be, Red, Blue and GREEN. The remakes added "Fire", "Leaf", "Heart" and "Soul" to the list of default names, but obviously nobody calls Red "Fire" or Silver "Soul". Bulbapedo was the only one insisting that in this one specific situation, that remake prefix was Leaf's name, and not Green, I guess because she hadn't shown up prior to the remake or some shit.
And he got away with it because, obviously, Leaf isn't canon and until recently had not been acknowledged at all in any official capacity since "hey we added a female character to Kanto", and thus there was technically no official proof to say he was wrong.
So what I think happened with Selene is much like the same thing. Selene, since Leaf, was the first protagonist to not get an explicit name in the games, meaning Bulbapedia once again felt like they had the power to dictate what it was. They seemingly decided that they would call her Moon, even though the games had never called their characters based on the titles of the game in almost 20 years at this point. They always gave them more real-sounding names, with only the Manga sticking to this old naming convention.
TL;DR - Bulbapedia seemed to have this retarded idea that if a character doesn't have an explicit name, it defaults to the earliest pre-release names based on the titles of the game, despite the fact that none of the protagonists have had their names decided like this in the games since Gen 1. He got lucky when Pokémon decided that Leaf really was that trainers name (Which I am convinced is a mistake and not from the higher-ups but whatever, it's done now), and in his mind, this meant that he was right about "Moon" as well, when in actuality it only led to him being proved more wrong about Selene. He was in denial but it seems he finally bent the knee and gave up.
