Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3279282-20150717161830/@comment-1207741-20150717164917

Seelentau wrote: Is there a reason we include the Japanese names of characters, episodes etc. in the intros of articles, when they're also included in the box? I think that's quite unnecessary, especially since it mostly leads to Name (Japanese, Name again), which is quite redundant. The wiki started off as a split from Wikipedia, and that's the format Wikipedia uses/used.

It's also worth mentioning that, in many cases, articles existed before the infoboxes were available, so at the time the intro was the only logical place to put the Japanese.

Also, why is the Japanese name in the infobox in brackets? That doesn't make any sense, either. The parentheses? I assume it's following the example of the translation template which, depending on how the infobox is structured, makes a certain sense.

Basically, there's not any particular reason for anything.