User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-265591-20160608023109

So some delightful little urchin has taken it upon themselves to start adding the name of the actor responsible for the German dub of some characters, which is not generally speaking terrible information to have - in fact, I find it fascinating! The problem, though, is that this information is being added simple as "Character was dubbed by voice actor name", which is delightfully non-specific.

At best, it's incomplete information. At worst, it implies that the actor did not also perform the voice for the character (which, while true in some cases, obviously isn't going to be the case for the majority of characters featured in the show).

As an example, the last line of the Behind The Scenes category for the Twelfth Doctor currently reads "The Twelfth Doctor was dubbed by voice actors Naoya Uchida, Philippe Résimont and Bernd Vollbrecht." I think we can all agree that, generally speaking, Peter Capaldi does his own voice in the English language broadcast of the show, so a little clarification and specificity might perhaps be in order.

I've gone through and changed a small handful to include the phrase "For the German broadcast," at the start of the factoid, but going through and doing this for every character to appear on the show is, frankly, tedious. I'm far more interested in Reading the TDC than in fixing it.