Forum:Characters' names on the wiki

Okay, one thing I don't get is that this wiki appears to be in denial that there are multiple ways to spell some characters' names, especially if you're reading a scanlation. Even on Wikipedia, when there are multiple names for something, the page for that something lists what other names it is called. For example, Wonderweiss's last name is sometimes Margela, sometimes Margera, and sometimes his first name is spelled Wonderwice (Especially since the English dub anime has him say his last name is Margera). Another two examples are Ulquiorra's last name, Schiffer or Cifer, and Grimmjow's last name, Jaggerjack or Jaggerjacques or even Jaegerjaquez.

I just want to know, why not sometimes include the alternate spellings of characters' names? Since there is no single way to spell some characters' names, why just pick one random name? I tried adding "(Sometimes called Wonderwice or Wonderweiss Margera) to the Wonderweiss Margela page after the "Wonderweiss Margela" that was in bold, but someone went in after me and deleted it, and I don't really understand why. That makes no sense to me. It's not harming anything. If anything, it's actually kind of helping, at least a tiny bit. This wikia wants to have as much information as it can, right? Well, alternate name spellings are bits of information. KunrinChishio (talk) 23:29, January 30, 2011 (UTC)

First, please sign your posts. This can be done by adding four tildes to the end of your post. Second, you are mistaken. There are official names. Alternate spellings are incorrect. Throughout the series, there have been numerous covers that Kubo has drawn with the correct romanization of character names. There are also databooks that contain official romanizations. Jaegerjaquez came from a cover, Margela came from MASKED. We use official names, not fan names--God (Pray)  23:27, January 30, 2011 (UTC)

Ah. See, I read the manga online, so no one ever told me that Tite Kubo provides correct, official romanizations on the volume covers or in the databooks. After all, I don't really have the money to go around buying the volumes and databooks, so I tend not to even look at them in the store. KunrinChishio (talk) 23:34, January 30, 2011 (UTC)

Neither do most of us, we searched for the databook on the net as soon as we knew about it and asked our translators to confirm the information contained in it. That's what we do, compile information and try to be as up to date as we can. So instead of questioning our methods and accusing us right ahead, first please read our Policies and Manual of Style to know why we do what we do. There is a reason to everything, naming policies included. And for the record, many official romanizations are not from volume covers but from chapter covers, which are included in the online scanlations, so that is not really an excuse. Lia Schiffer  (Talk)  03:21, January 31, 2011 (UTC)