"Original US Release" use

Games are sorted using the date filled in this section of the wiki which messes up lists when a game is not released in the US or when it is released years before in another territory. Now quite some wiki editors are simply filling in the original release and not the original US release since that way the lists do not get messed up which makes more sense. 
 
The best solution would be that games are sorted using the earliest release in the release section and remove the "original US release" section of the wiki completely but untill then would it not be better if the "US" part of "original US release" be deleted?

But then games that were released in North America later would have to have their release date changed to the "original release". And that's a lot of games. Rather than bringing it in line with how people are currently using it, changing the label in that way would change its meaning in a way that actually moves it further away from the way it's currently used.

Even thinking about the number of game pages that would have to be corrected if they would change the name of that section is terrifying but something has to be done about it. I wish they would have made that section auto-complete using the release data when the site launched. It puzzles me why that it even exists the way it works now.

While mandatory on other sites, a lot of people still don't even know that it's possible to enter release data.

Just give us the ability to fill in release dates for more regions. Even though a majority of GB's users are American, it wouldn't hurt to acknowledge the rest of us.
 
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I think it's fine now. Just leave the Original US Release empty if it hasn't been released in the US. Even though a lot of people don't typically fill out release information, it isn't really as big of an issue as other things (such as the large amount of pages that still have to be deleted).

For  games not released in the U.S., some people still put this date in U.S. release field. I think this is a bad idea since it causes confusion.

" @Rallier: I've seen comments that indicate that a lot of people don't even know how to access it though. Being a wiki, databasey stuff like releases are kind of hidden outside of reach for most people. Game pages on other sites require at least one release; this site requires none. Some people don't even realize they have to come back and add more info after the initial game submission. Releases really need to be more easily accessible before forcing them to be used for the release date. "

I don't understand why it says, "original US release," in the first place. Why not just use, "US release date?" The other release dates don't have the world original in front of it, so in my opinion it kind of gives the wrong impression; like the US release is somehow superior.