Talk:The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

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US vs European place names[edit]

Is there a neater way to switch between the US and European place names, e.g. Outset vs Aboda? The current method looks a bit messy and confusing so someone who is only familiar with the names from their own region. Maybe a selector a bit like the control selector? --Pelago 23:15, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Putting "Aboda/Outset" in the guide doesn't seem that bad to me. In a different guide we used refs pointing to region differences in a notes section at the bottom of the page. It might be more confusing, since you'd just see "Aboda[1]" instead. In the past we've always stayed away from using the control selector for anything but console vs console differences. This keeps coming up though, so eventually we're going to have to find a way to deal with this or open up the control selector to be more general. — najzereT 23:33, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
I didn't want to leave out one region's names completely. I'm from Europe, so on sites like Zelda Wiki, which only use the US names, it becomes even more confusing (there's absolutely no similarities, except Papuzia/Papuchia). A wiki should be universally understandable, so I didn't want anything like that to happen here. With the tools currently at our disposal, I feel that this system works ok, unless a name starts to come up continuously (Staven/Byrne will probably start to come up a lot in the Characters page) and then it'll probably just look awkward and not very neat. So maybe something could be done in that case? Moydow 22:03, 30 January 2010 (UTC)