Talk:Bertolt Hoover

Request to split article
I Am somebody who only watches the AoT anime, and after finishing the available episodes, as per usual, I decided to read the character descriptions that I may have missed. I went through the general characters: Eren, Mikasa, Sasha, etc. I was satisfied with those characters' pages becasue they kept the anime and manga knowledge generally separate, while the less separated sections, which could be identified by their manga scans, I averted with my eyes. Navigating via links, I head to the page of the colosal and armored titans. To my shock and horror, the pages redirect to the Garrison crew, groundbreaking information which is meant to be unavailable to anime fans. To prevent unintentional spoilers like this in the future, can this page, along with the Armored Titan page be split so the titans forms and the human forms have respective pages, with explicit spoiler tags? Thank you. Porp1 (talk) 21:55, July 5, 2013 (UTC)

Spellings
Please do NOT use translated spellings as "Bertolt Hoover" on this wiki. The official and accepted spelling is "Bertholdt Fubar". I don't know what you did but I can't rename the page, its up to you to fix it. Chris (talk) 17:02, July 16, 2013 (UTC)


 * What source do you have to says that "Bertholdt Fubar" is the official spelling? The manga spells his name "Bertolt Hoover", so this is the officail spelling.Jjoss (talk) 21:00, July 18, 2013 (UTC)

Fixed. It couldn't be renamed because 'Bertholdt Fubar' still existed as a redirect so I just swapped the pages... 17:06, July 16, 2013 (UTC)

@Jjoss I don't have my own source, but I know the Japanese versions refer to him as Bertholdt Fubar, and the English manga translations took to "Fuber" or "Hoover" so as not to coincide with the American military acronym F.U.B.A.R., which if you don't know, stands for "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair". Chris (talk) 23:05, July 18, 2013 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure Bertolt Hoover is the official, correct spelling. Cryssie (talk) 23:38, July 19, 2013 (UTC)

You can take that up with the admins if you like. Chris (talk) 02:06, July 20, 2013 (UTC)

That depends on what you consider 'official'. I believe that until it's proven that Isayama himself spelled it like that, it will be just 'another translation' even if it's done by Kodansha. 09:06, July 20, 2013 (UTC)

I opened the image file for his profile on the Japanese anime site and the file name is "Berutolt." If Kodansha and the anime's website spell it like that, then it's probably Bertolt. I haven't seen where it's been spelled Bertholdt aside from blogging sites. Both names are real names, but Bertolt seems to be more common. Also, TV Tropes says Bertolt Hoover is official, but they don't have any sources listed. I'm not trying to argue; I'm just sharing what I've found. Cryssie (talk) 02:21, July 24, 2013 (UTC)