User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-43874324-20200319180118/@comment-86.187.236.151-20200417164023

RingoRoadagain wrote: it might be relevant to remember this announcement from the admins some months back:

Dub actors are not covered because "it is not clear why English-speaking readers of this wiki would benefit in any way from knowing names of actors who have no presence in English-speaking media."

This reasoning is probably extendable for localisations at large.

BUT, foreign covers of books are still allowed on prose articles for the moment. So I would like to discuss what should be allowed or not.

I assume that the sensible thing would be to state that other versions exist but are not to be detailed at all?

>it is not clear why English-speaking readers of this wiki would benefit in any way from knowing names of actors who have no presence in English-speaking media

I have nothing to comment either way on the central debate of this thread, just to say that this specific line brings to mind Tom Baker in Robot "Naturally, of course, the rest were all foreigners@,