Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24081824-20160718235446/@comment-6986530-20160719004709

Yeah personally I think the standards we have on here, as far as handling translations are concerned, are a joke.

The fact that we link to Wiegenlied and Cloture still is proof enough of that, if it isn't proof enough that nearly all of the translators we've worked with in the past are not actually fluent in Japanese (with there being some notable incidents in the past of some using machine translators.) As you can tell by the supreme awkwardness in all of the texts on our Sidestories blog, eugh.

Users with more knowledge on the subject, on the occasions that they do weigh in, are made to take a back seat to an alleged Skype translation group that has no accountability to the wiki and a range of fluency levels. (Personally I think the belief that the more minds there are weighing in on a translation the more accurate the translation, regardless of whether those minds have a right to any of their opinions in the first place, should have been dispelled by the absolute crap translation several users made of Blink when it was released.)

The admin himself has mentioned in the past that he is not fluent in Japanese in any way (although he fails to mention that to people asking him to personally translate something, instead claiming he has "experience" with the language,) and yet repeatedly is in a position where he has the final say on how something is worded. I feel as though this is not ideal.

tldr; There's not a lot of transparency here and there's not a lot of care to prevent mistakes, and that's bad, and my head and hands hurt.