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Duplicate Persons.

Empty pages are there because someone put in the wrong name (or whatever), and they CAN'T be merged. Merging is permanent, which means if someone else comes along with that name (perfectly common place, there's tons of people with the same name), then that person can't have a page created for them. That's why they leave the blank pages there.

Dessa wrote:

Empty pages are there because someone put in the wrong name (or whatever), and they CAN'T be merged. Merging is permanent, which means if someone else comes along with that name (perfectly common place, there's tons of people with the same name), then that person can't have a page created for them. That's why they leave the blank pages there.

Um, is that really a valid reason?

You've merged pages of people with similar names before where the only difference was like one letter in either the last or first name...

Or if your problem is specifically with "merging", then that page with the old name should be deleted.

jomy wrote:

Dessa wrote: Empty pages are there because someone put in the wrong name (or whatever), and they CAN'T be merged. Merging is permanent, which means if someone else comes along with that name (perfectly common place, there's tons of people with the same name), then that person can't have a page created for them. That's why they leave the blank pages there. Um, is that really a valid reason?

Yes it is.^

jomy wrote:

You've merged pages of people with similar names before where the only difference was like one letter in either the last or first name...

Only in cases like ō/ou. Sometimes even official sources take different approaches.

jomy wrote:

Or if your problem is specifically with "merging", then that page with the old name should be deleted.

I've set Makoto Terada as an alias of Mugihito.
There are two types of merging: aliasing (non-permanent) and alternate spelling (permanent). Aliasing is used when the person changes his/her name (marriage, new pen/stage name due change of agency, separate 18+ or non-union credits, etc.); alternate spelling is for two or more companies romanizing the same name with two or more transliteration systems.

There had been a "third" type of duplicated names: credits point to the same person, but only one romanization is correct, and the difference is not as little as ō/ou (see example below). While such cases are rare nowadays (thanks to popularity of anime in the West and more Japanese companies looking for overseas markets), it was rather common in the early days of anime licensing. For example, how would you romanize Japanese given name 「英一」? "Eiichi" or "Kazuhiko"? Back in the days when communication tools between US and Japanese companies were less accessible and much slower, such errors were quite common, and I had to admit that I made a few unnecessary irreversible mergings because of this when I took this job almost ten year ago....

Ok, but this isn't the situation at all. This is a case of the voice actor being known by another name with different kanjis. However, both names refer to the same person. He's just credited differently in different series/movies.

At any rate, I see that you've done some kind of merging of the two, or redirecting, I'm not really sure which. But I have two concerns. First of all, there is a Given name, but why no Family name? And btw if you need the kanji for Amachi, it's this: 天地.

Secondly, since I submitted the role of Adolph under both names and only one should remain, I will leave it up to you which one to delete. Or, just tell me which one to delete, and I will delete it.

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At any rate, I see that you've done some kind of merging of the two, or redirecting, I'm not really sure which. But I have two concerns. First of all, there is a Given name, but why no Family name? And btw if you need the kanji for Amachi, it's this: 天地.

Dan improved the system couple years ago so each alias can have respective kanji name. Before the update, however, an entry can have only one set of kanji name; all alias(es) can only have transliterated romaji. Mergers taken place before the update required to have additional kanji taken down; now they can be added back.

Feel free to add 天地 yourself. Tip: use the pull-down menu.

jomy wrote:

Secondly, since I submitted the role of Adolph under both names and only one should remain, I will leave it up to you which one to delete. Or, just tell me which one to delete, and I will delete it.

Didn't you write "In this movie, Swan Lake, he was credited as Terada Makoto" yourself?

Oh I would have. But Given name doesn't appear in the pull-down menu and I don't know why. So if I only edit Family name, only Amachi would appear and Mugihito would be gone.

jomy wrote:

Oh I would have. But Given name doesn't appear in the pull-down menu and I don't know why. So if I only edit Family name, only Amachi would appear and Mugihito would be gone.

Apparently you figured it out how to do it correctly four hours and eleven minutes after posting your reply.