User talk:Goldrapidmon

Welcome
Hi, welcome to DigimonWiki! Thanks for your edit to the Kouichi Kimura page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Lanate (Talk) 01:40, April 10, 2010

Koichi?
What is your source that there is no u in his name? 07:37, April 10, 2010 (UTC)

well, it's a standard of romanization, and since the dub team removed the u in Koji's japanese name, it only makes sense that they'd do the same for Koichi, plus, the text descriptions throughout the page all use the spelling "koichi"
 * So you don't have a source then, is that correct? 05:58, April 11, 2010 (UTC)

I don't have a source, per se, but considering this spelling is used on both Wikipedia, as well as everywhere on the site, the change seemed appropriate; but are there any sources that his dub name is spelled with a u?
 * His original name is spelled with a "u", and when we don't have an official redub, we use the Japanese name. If "Koichi" is being used everywhere without sourcing, then that needs to be fixed, not propagated. If you can find sourcing anywhere (credits, official scripts, anything), we can use that. 03:05, April 12, 2010 (UTC)

unfortunately, that's easier said than done... I try, but it's difficult. apparently, while the dub of the Frontier movie(which didn't feature Koichi) has name and cast listings, the credits to the TV episodes don't seem to have them; but the dub credits for the movie use the spelling "Koji", so by that logic, "Koichi" would be the correct dub spelling

although I think I have at least one source: the ANN page for Digimon Frontier: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2172. under the dub casting list, Crispin Freeman is labeled as "Koichi Kimura"
 * ANN is user-written, isn't it? We need something official.
 * Koji could be logically romanized like that, because it would be pronounced the same as the original name. But Koichi could be pronounced "Koy-chi", not "Ko-ee-chi". Furthermore, we still don't do that. We use whatever official names we are given, because "logical", but incorrect, names like that have been used too much across the fandom, and it makes a mess. 08:10, April 12, 2010 (UTC)