Thread:Neetaku/@comment-5774380-20160501030500/@comment-5774380-20160506133317

That probably would be the most strictly correct approach, but it will create a mess with the translations and I don't know if it's worth. I had already noticed this problem in other articles though; namely, the live-action movies and original creations of the anime like the visual novels, the Chibi Theatre and, yes, Junior High anime.

That policy about using the Kodansha USA spellings exists because that's the official translator for the manga, but Kodansha is not involved in any of those other works and thus is not providing us with any official spelling. For example, the visual novel Wall Sina, Goodbye is an original work of Wit Studio and Production I.G, and even in the original Japanese version they spell it as such. Translating it as Wall Sheena, Goodbye would be wrong because that's not the Kodansha USA spelling; Kodansha isn't actually involved in this work and is not providing any translation at all.

The same would be for the live-action movies. Kodansha has nothing to do with them either, and the highest translator in this case is FUNimation. In their official website they spell Kubal's Titan form as "Colossal Titan", and we'll probably should use that spelling, because stating that they call him "Colossus Titan" would be false since nobody is actually calling him in that way in any official source.

And the same would be for the Chibi Theatre and, yes, Junior High anime. Technically, the latter is based on a Kodansha work which is the Junior High manga, but in reality is just borrowing some ideas and is, if any, just loosely inspired; so using the Kodansha spellings, again, wouldn't be correct.

However, this also brings other issues into question. For example, what should we do with the characters' Trivias when they are stating anime-only facts? Should we use the anime spellings in that section despite the fact that the rest of the article is using another spelling? And the Other Media sections when they are talking about the OVAs? And the video games? If (hypothetically), one of them spells Eren's surname as "Zeager", should we use that spelling for its related articles? Because then we'll have articles using Yeager, Jaeger and Zeager indiscriminately here and there and that would be confusing for the readers of the wiki. Needless to say that if they change the spellings in a future release, the situation would only worsen, and we'd have to use the spellings from version 1 for the version 1 articles, and the spellings from version 2 for the version 2 articles.

I haven't seen this approach being used in any wiki so far. Whether it's for the sake of consistency or whatever reason, they always stick with a single translation for the whole wiki. Even Wikipedia seems to do the same. That being said, I don't know who decided that we should use the FUNimation spellings in the Junior High anime article. I was the one who started that page, but I wasn't the one who put those spellings and I hadn't noticed them until you told me. Who, when and why decided that style is beyond me.

Overall, I don't think this is something that should be decided only between you and me, and we'll probably should consult the other admins. It doesn't help that Locket hasn't been seen in a while and that Jinx is voluntarily excluding herself from the wiki until the next chapter release though...