[mod post] Another Hello

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

Hello, everyone, this is your community moderator.[Poll #1217657][Poll #1217657]

And in case you're wondering, the human names of the nations are:

Turkey=Sadiq Adnan

Prussia=Gilbert Beilschmidt (aka: Gil)

Canada=Matthew Williams (also, his bear's name is Kumajirou)

Sealand=Peter Kirkland (nickname: Sea-kun)

Belarus=Natalia (I can't find her last name)

America=Alfred F. Jones (aka: Al)

UK=Arthur Kirkland (nickname: Iggy Iggy)

Germany=Ludwig (family name unknown)

Japan=Honda Kiku (or, in the west, Kiku Honda)

Italy (north)=Feliciano Vargas (nickname: Veneziano)

Italy (south)=Lovino Vargas (nickname: Romano)

Austria=Roderich Edelstein

Hungary=Elizabeth Héderváry

Spain=Antonio Fernandez Carriedo (nickname: Oyabun)

France=Francis Bonnefoy (nickname: Oniichan)

Switzerland=Vash Zwingli

Greece=Heracles Karpusi

Egypt=Gupta Muhammad Hassan

Russia=Ivan Braginsky

Lithuania=Toris Lolintis (thanks to herbalriver)

Estonia=the closest I got was "Edward"

Lativa=Raivis Galante

Poland=Feliks Łukasiewicz

China=Wong Yao (Yao Wong in the west.  Nickname: Nii-Nii/Aniki)

Korea=Im Yun Soo

Finland=Tino Väinämöinen

Sweden=Bernard Oxenstierna (nickname: Su-san)

Sweden and Finland's dog=Hana-tamago

For nations that don't have human names, their names are made to sound like nicknames.  For instance, Hong Kong is currently known as Hon-kun or Hon-tan.  Taiwan is Tai-chan, Cuba is Qba, etc...

If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a comment or send me an LJ message!

Comments

[ekmisao.livejournal.com]

I definitely understand the concern. (Especially, being an English site, someone from the CIA or the United Nations might do something!)

The people names have to be in a prominent place, if you do want to enforce this, just so people don't get confused. (Took me a while to understand who was Alfred and Arthur, etc.) Also, keep this "Don't use nation names!" rule on the sidebars.

I hope that's useful.

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

That's a good point, and even if we don't enforce the rules, it would be interesting to have a reference post somewhere that is linked from the profile in case people get confused when other members use the human names, because I have seen in other communities where certain characters have number-like names (Reborn and Saiyuki come to mind) and new fans have no idea who 8 or 96 are.

[ekmisao.livejournal.com]

Hehe. ^^v I come from the Samurai 7 world, and back when I was totally crazy about it enough to hunt through Japanese fanart sites, I also went through many numbers. Only a very basic knowledge of Japanese numbers helped me survive. ^^

Just put an extra link on the top, I suppose, with the pictures (icons), nation names, and people names. I guess that will do.