I would prefer if you and everybody else labeled/named each "new" knot posted, preferably directly on the photo or diagram. That way, someone else can easily reference the knot on this site or even other sites.
I have followed your advice as much as I could. However, there are some problems ;
1. If the knot has a very peculiar shape, it is easy to attach a relevant name on it . For example, see the "Oval bend" (1). But what happens if it has not ? The knot world is fed up with knots known under silly, or even misleading names...we do not need some more !
2. One always hopes that somebody else will figure out a more appropriate name for this knot...because the person who sees a thing for the first time, is more able to focus straightly upon the obvious central theme, and not get lost into minor details.
3. There is always the possibility another person has seen something similar, and then it might be better to name the "new" knot by some reference to the "old" one - or even as a variation of this "old" one.
4. A name that sounds nice and descriptive enough to somebody, might be proven to be a bad choice, because to most other people will sound like something else, etc.
5 If you sense that this knot will be one of a series of similar knots that you have not yet investigated, you wait to see the complete set, and then to decide how to name each one of them.
6. If you really believe that what matters is the structure of the knot, and knot its name, you tend to leave the name, on purpose, somehow vague, or ill defined, and let the knot tyers community and history to fill the gap.
Last, but not least. when you see your "new "knots" receive
zero or even
negative interest from the other knot tyers - as I do

, - the last thing you bother is to have your ignored or ridiculed knot named !
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http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=3741