User blog comment:Hannadzor/Official Dub: Supporting characters announced!/@comment-1271618-20100707211746

I was thinking that too, Watermint, about the names. NotPipe was the first to revert some article references to human names (whatever happened to her?) for consistency purposes, but it sounds so awkward when we're talking "Vash (should be Basch) and Liechtenstein!" or "Ivan, Natalia, and Ukraine".

The human names could be kept at the top mention of the articles and the infoboxes, but the actual articles and everything else (relationships) can get the country names. That means other articles like the pairing ones will be revamped too, and your suggestion sounds good. There are a few different ideas I've been wondering about for improvements and that's definitely a nagging one!

I just worry about editwars. Some fans are very resistant to change, like what happened with "Toris Lorinaitis" vs. "Tolys Laurinaitis" (and why the idea of changing "Vash" to "Basch" was kind of dead in the water). Human names might be good for alternate usage and for fun overall, but they lead to so many spelling wars that the country names (their first and foremost names) should be the actual titles of the articles, probably.