One Piece Wiki talk:Japanese vs. English Names

Quick set up
It need going over, but here is a quick draft of why we use Japanese over English dub names. Its far from perfect though. One-Winged Hawk 08:53, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

FUNimation
How are we handling FUNi names? One-Winged Hawk 23:02, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Concerns
Okay... There seems to a level of inconsistance here on the site. Right, from day one we agreed to use the Japanese over English names for things where need be. However, there seems to be exceptions made everywhere. Firstly, we use translations for names I.e. Characters, yet sometimes we use common translations the scanalations thro up while other times we use the Japanese, even when there is a clear translation.

Regarding two other things that I've tried to get a discussion going on:
 * World Nobles, we've gone for this term what seriously, what SHOULD we be calling them in Japanese? My reason for pulling this up; Yonkou Vs 4 Emperors, we use Yonkou even though their name can be translated.
 * Marines, I'm referring to their titles here... Read the talk page concerning my concern.

I'd like this mess to be sorted, because this pages legit status is as it stands on a thin line. About all we've done that stayed in line with this page is not used 4Kids, FUNi and Viz names. One-Winged Hawk 06:30, 21 October 2008 (UTC)


 * "Tenryuubito" maybe the one we should use as the word "World Noble" can refer to any high ranking rich person and not necessarily the people descended from the alliance of kings. Tenryuubito can be translated as "Celestial Dragons" as I think is used in Wikipedia but somewhat very erroneous in context. That translation suggests that they are actually dragons which is wrong. On a related matter, the three World Nobles' may have to be corrected. The "Saint" is supposed to be "Sei" and only the males possess it in their. The "Sei" in the guys' names and the "Guu" in the girl's name seems to be used like "Mr." and "Miss" in the context. If there is another World Noble who possesses the same naming convention then it might be true.Mugiwara Franky 08:29, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Adjustments
As you may or may not be aware of, there is some concerns expressed in using the Episode names and writing FUNimation's titles. See Forum: Index for more detail. It might be best to wait and see the outcome of that discussion, however every can express an opinion here in the meantime on the Guideline. One-Winged Hawk 20:26, 19 July 2009 (UTC)