I know, I’m saying they could have and everyone would have known it was them; they did not have to trash their character as a moth, they chose to. @ValuedEmployee might have some harsh words for me regarding this opinion being so blunt, but that is ultimately my honest opinion about the aftermath of that. They could have continued as the same moth named “Cordswitch” and people would barely have thought twice in general.
Kerlin did
Sholl is still appearance banned as far as I know. I tried suggesting he take the names listed and that he didn’t need to trash the character, but the posts were removed from the appeal for being off-topic.
If we look at policy to the exact letter your name does break it, but it’s far from the only lizard name that does and it seems to be “close enough” not to bother anyone who does care a lot about policy, myself included.
Other notable examples of names being against policy to the exact letter include the dozen or more oozelings with gemstone names instead of colors, and Moths with single names that are just names instead of Single word object, concept or event of some importance , such as Hapi, Meta, Moona, and StarShot. Moona got permanently banned for other reasons though, so I only know of the other three as active players.