Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24081824-20160718235446/@comment-23.122.217.39-20160719003511

I'd have to agree, overall. The info-mines are supposed to be just a rough idea of what's going on in general, because they often fail in getting precise wording and small details right--which is fine on its own. ...But then the word choices therein, no matter how awkward and nonsensical they might end up being, are used directly in the articles. And quoted in the "quotes" sections.

Like (for example) in the confrontation of the Sloth novel, the info-mine translates a phrase as something like "rather than putting you to sleep, it was a gift of origin/genesis/etc". This is written in the article as "Elluka mused it was a gift of origin for her". And she's actually saying, paraphrased, "Rather than putting you to sleep, it woke you up." --Servant even said in the post that it was probably heavily butchered, yet it was allowed in the article anyway.

Like the poor quality translations by themselves don't bother me for getting basic information because most of the mistranslations are either just very poor wording choices with the same basic meaning, or are very very minor factual errors that don't ultimately change much (Usually, anyway--don't get me started on "You and I are both 'The Demon of Wrath'"). But it irritates me when they get propagated so heavily, and it especially irritated me when I brought this up a while back and a lot of people were for the unnecessarily, messily detailed articles because they liked reading it.

I don't know. At the VERY LEAST I think a looot of the articles need to get truncated. Not just because the super-detailed mess that makes them as long as they are is poorly translated but because it makes them very hard to go through, and, I imagine, add content for. Like I said in the past, a lot of people on tumblr have complained about this (particularly those on mobile) and some even had half-baked efforts of making their own guides because they didn't feel this one was easy to read.

I'd also like to point out the sticky issue of song lyrics, where the admin is supposed to be adding English lyrics to song pages. Not only has this not been done for a majority of song articles despite the "project" being started over two years ago, but these translations are done by blending together several translations from people of varying skill levels (which, when you have a high quality translation and a low quality translation all you're really doing is lowering the quality overall) and then changing the wording himself so it sounds good to him. Not to mention this makes it so he doesn't credit people for their work (which isn't as important an issue imo but it does bear mentioning).

I know I'm not technically a member of the wiki--I am an outsider anon and I intend to remain that way as much as I can for my own reasons--and I don't want to offend people. But there are issues in quality control and general apathy towards it here and they bear at least discussing because the wiki is a resource that almost every fan of the series uses and recommends to people.