Forum:Dub names and Japanese names

As we all know, this wiki uses the dub names for anime and manga characters. I will not deny there are merits to doing so, I've said so myself in the past. That being said, I got some feedback about it from off-wiki that offered a compromise.

A user on Neo Ark Cradle PMed me. She does not follow the dub to any degree and has been using the summaries I've written for recent ZEXAL episodes for reference purposes. She likes the wiki in general. However, again, she does not follow the dub. So she reads the articles and has to guess which character is which or click the link for every character whose name was changed to find out what's going on. From a reader's perspective, that's not a good thing.

She suggested using both names. In other words, in the first instance of a character being mentioned in an article, we would write both names, perhaps like this: Chazz/Jun.

I believe that using only the dub names is decremental to the wiki as a whole. I would not surprised if random readers see the dub names, say "well, they must be using dub-only information too, not gonna read that crap", then leave and never come back.

I would appreciate any feedback on this. Thanks, guys. Cheesedude (talk • contribs) 04:52, October 23, 2012 (UTC)