User blog comment:Watermint/Human names v. Country names (Wiki)/@comment-70.253.237.72-20100802023149

I thought about some things...


 * Is August 8th still the official date for change?
 * Who will be doing the changes? Lilly and Mint? If not, how will we decide?
 * Have we come to an official way to change the pages? Shall we search for every human name used on the articles on wiki?
 * I noticed that while editing pages, you can link to the page just by typing in the human name of a country, sometimes the country if they have no name. Shall / Can these be changed as well?

I ask these to simply come to a clear understanding before the change happens, so that there are no incidents. I also understand other people might want to help, and so, to prevent myself from being a pagehog, I asked who would do what. Do we pick pages? Will they be assigned? Or do you two plan on doing it all? ;D From all the wonderful suggestions given, I have come up with somewhat of an idea. Basically, the page would stay exactly the same, but, where the human name is given, it would be changed to the country's. I really like FangzV's idea (whaa, it is gone~), it is simple, orderly, and allows us to be more descriptive without being repetitive. A nice little mention at the top of the page, redirecting to a one that explains in detail what exactly the names are for, and what they represent for each country. By this I mean all of the possible reasons for the character being named this, to the spelling(s) of the names. An example would be "Vash". Underneath his little section, his name would be Basch (insert hiragana+possible pronunciation). We would then explain the possible reasonings for his name, then go to the other spellings. This could be where we explain that Basch is more in line with both the native pronunciation and the hiragana writing of the name. It would in essence be like a "Name" version of the " Rumors and Misconceptions(?)" page, where we deal with it there instead of on every single page. OR maybe it could be on that page. And if they were from the East then yah, Western first, then a note about what the Eastern order would be, to keep confusion at bay.

^^ But of course that is all just my idea. It is not a ultimatum. I really just wanted some things answered, and I would highly dislike to have the change happen, only for people to go crazy because this page died off and they never saw it / the changes are messy and are in wierd places.

--Fluffy.