Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20150223174230/@comment-6192846-20150226134638

GreekTelepath wrote: So should we change the articles? That's what we've been discussing this entire thread. XD I'm just going to requote Pika and the anon for two important points they made:

UnitedStateofPikachulious wrote:

Sure, it's great to have translations close to the original. However, if they can be close to the original and grammatically accurate too then for the sake of our eyes let there be grammar. 67.65.248.45 wrote: That's actually what a lot of localizations do. Literal translations all the time end up stilted, and you guys are as close to localization as we get. One's more for the grammar end and one's arguing about localization, which goes into the subject of "what do we think is best" for the wiki.

Personally, I'm not completely sold on this argument, but if I'm having doubts about how much mothy actually plays a role in this process, I'm definitely not sure whether we should be sticking to these spellings purely because they were put out that way, especially since other series/wikis don't do this and it works for them.

Example: Localization is taking "akujiki" and translating it as "gluttony" despite the Japanese word for the deadly sin of gluttony being a different (albeit similar) word. We stick to the intended meaning over what it would actually translate as (evil/bad/repulsive food) in that specific context.

So instead of it being over "Five", it shifts to "Clown". The codename/title wasn't クラウン (kuraun) which also exists in their dictionary for "clown/crown". It was "pierrot". Does that merit a distinction given the context for Lemy? Should we be prioritizing what we feel works best for a title over what a foreign publisher/creator puts out? How far do we feel goes from us just bending it.