Thread:Neetaku/@comment-5774380-20160501030500/@comment-5774380-20160524165932

After further thinking on the matter I have to recommend the usage of the different spellings. There are instances where sticking to Kodansha's translations throughout all sources will have conflictive results; including the live-action movies where Hange is renamed as Hans; voice credits for the animes (listing something like "Yuki Kaji as Eren Yeager" would be incorrect because that's not how it is listed in the actual credits); Kubal's Titan form which is called "Colossal Titan" and it's not the same Colossus Titan from the manga (this is not Bertolt), and other cases like Levi and Frieda which are deprived from their surnames in the animes. The same would happen for the Before the Fall characters if some day we want to make separate articles for their different incarnations in novels and manga.

In short, using the spellings given by the primary translator of each media is the simplest and most strictly correct approach and we avoid making up artificial guidelines that result in articles named with spellings that are not used in the official sources (which even counts as false information). That's why this is the convention used on Wikipedia for mangas and animes and I have to agree with it.

About how we would be handling it, it wouldn't be complex. I would add a section to the Manual of Style with a simple table listing the Kodansha and Funimation spellings (more or less what we already did in the first message of this thread) and the guideline would read that we use the Kodansha spellings for the majority of articles, except the ones within the categories "Anime" and "Live-Action" which use the Funimation spellings. Then, when making separate articles for the different incarnations of characters in spin-offs, we redirect the alternate spellings to the actual page in order to make them easy to find (i.e. we redirect "Eren Yeager (Chibi Theatre)" to "Eren Jaeger (Chibi Theatre)". We have to do it anyway because the Manual of Style reads that we should redirect the alternate spellings to the actual page, so whatever spelling we pick, we have to redirect the other spellings to it.

So what are your thoughts?