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:::{{reply to|Fleyzk}} The article for ''[[Dragon Ball Z]]'' uses the spellings that are used in that anime's official English version. The article for ''[[Dragon Ball: Origins]]'' uses the spellings that are used in that game's official English version. And so on, and so on. It's not a matter of Wikipedia decided to use one set of spellings across the entire mass media franchise (that is ''never'' the case for anything), it simply happens that the official English versions of those different works use the same ones. When I was blaming other users, I was referring specifically to "Dragon Ball character articles". Like I said there was a period when we had the manga names for those too. But [[WP:CCC|consensus can change]] and one user came along and got enough people to agree that per [[WP:COMMONNAME]], the Funimation names should be used. But note, that is for those specific character articles and does not mean every other article that mentions the characters has to use those names. Even though consensus can change back to the manga names, I stopped editing DB character articles altogether because like I said too many people are uneducated on the series and don't even know it's a manga. For example, [[Master Roshi]] opens with the line "known in ''Japan'' as Kame Sennin as well as Muten Rōshi". No mention at all as to how those are actually official English names. But my disgust with the character articles is irrelevant. The DB manga page uses the official English manga spellings, there's simply nothing to discuss as far as changing that goes and nothing to "solve" as you put it.

:::''[[Dragon Ball Super]]'' is a different can of worms because it is two significantly different medias, that each use different official spellings, but are both covered in one article. There was never an actual discussion on how to lay that article out; is it a manga first, an anime first, which plot to follow, which spellings to use. The article seems to have recently settled naturally on it being a manga first and foremost, since that one started first and has continued for years while the anime ended. Since you brought this up tho, I'm thinking perhaps there are now enough sources and enough major differences that a split of [[Dragon Ball Super (manga)]] and [[Dragon Ball Super (TV series)]] should be done. [[User:Xfansd|Xfansd]] ([[User talk:Xfansd#top|talk]]) 22:11, 9 August 2023 (UTC)