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Formerly, the style was to name articles based on whichever name a character was most "well known by".  However, this created debate as to who judges which name is most commonly known, and thus created unnecessary conflict given how rarely a character is known to the English-speaking fanbase more commonly by anything but their English name. Hence, the style has since been abandoned.
Formerly, the style was to name articles based on whichever name a character was most "well known by".  However, this created debate as to who judges which name is most commonly known, and thus created unnecessary conflict given how rarely a character is known to the English-speaking fanbase more commonly by anything but their English name. Hence, the style has since been abandoned.


An article titled with a Pokémon name with a very well known instance in any form of canon should have a disambiguation page.
An article titled with a Pokémon name with a very well known instance in any form of canon should have a disambiguation page. For example, due to [[Meowth (Team Rocket)]] being extremely well-known, a disambiguation page exists at [[Meowth (disambiguation)]].


===Names of people===
===Names of people===