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He may have been named after Paul Abdul, but they cant use it for legal reason. Anyway, what ever is official should be used.
I have never seen any translation of Jojo that calls him "Mohammed Abdul". It is always "Avdol".
Yes, he is named after Paula Abdul. No, that has no bearing on how his name is officially spelled.
I think I've seen "Abdul" in fan translations, but never in official localization.
Actually, I'm not sure; we don't use the Writing Around Trademarks Stand names, nor should we. That would drive JoJo fans crazy, and it's not worth the effort.
Edited by rjd1922 Keet cleanup
Haven't read/seen it, but we should be using whatever the official English translations use, whether they're Writing Around Trademarks or not.
It should be noted that all of the above is irrelevant is Seguir has been edit warring.
Seguir edited Muhammad Avdol's folder title in Characters.Jojos Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusaders, changing from [[folder: Muhammad Avdol]] to [[folder: Muhammad Abdul (dub: Mohammed Avdol)]]. urutapu reverted this since "Avdol" is the official spelling and "Abdul" is not used in any official translation (that I know of), only fan-translations. Seguir then changed it again to [[folder: Muhammad Abdul/ Avdol]] with the edit reason "He's named after Paula Abdul for pete's sake." (JoJo's characters are often named after a musical reference), bringing it up to the three edits count required to qualify as an Edit War.
My opinion on the matter is that "Abdul" shouldn't be used on the page except maybe under Spell My Name With An S, since officially it's spelled "Avdol". The way the name of the person being referenced is actually spelled is unimportant, since many other characters don't follow their reference's name exactly.