User blog comment:Watermint/Human names v. Country names (Wiki)/@comment-1271618-20100711232439

Since a bunch of pages got edited with human names outside the articles IIRC, I'd be happy to help revert and convert articles when it's all decided (don't want to be handling it all myself though D: ).

On the Asian names though, should we label them in Western or Eastern order for their references? The cast articles use Western, though I worry about anons trying to mess with the orders if we opt for having those guys in that one too.

I think for relationships and everything below the introduction, we should definitely opt for nation names since not everyone has a human name and it sounds too awkward. I like your note idea for the ones with human names though too.

As for debated/right/wrong spellings:


 * Belarus' surname is definitely "Arlovskaya", Alfroskaya was a misnomer from a botched translation on the Hetalia LJ community.


 * Now, reading back through comments there, I see that someone did try to correct Vash as "Bash"/"Basch" but nobody ever followed up on the advice.


 * Lithuania's surname is more likely "Laurinaitis", "Lorinaitis" doesn't seem to exist outside of Hetalia, tried searching for it. It's like Weillschmidt vs. Beilschmidt, the first was popular but the second was the more likely one from the kana and having some actual existence points. His first name...I don't know if I want to touch that.


 * Hungary's first name comes out as "Elizabeta". This exists as a name. If it was intended as "Elizaveta", a different character would have been used for the "v" part (even though v and b seem interchangeable, sometimes authors will use a different character for the "v", which Himaruya's done with other guys. It's part of why someone was suspecting of "Vash"). Could he have intended it as Erzsébet but goofed? It's likely! You can just put that in as another spelling/possibility, her name is a tough one in fandom.
 * Estonia's surname...uh, yeah. Someone noticed "von Bock" didn't look right for the kana ("fonvakku"). It could be this or "von Fock", which also exists. Have not found any "von Vock".