Forum:Literalism in translations and other issues

Following up on Forum:Offer of affiliation from our sources, I've been having a lot of discussions with members of "The Organization" about translation conventions. I've been redirecting card names used on Dueling Network to point the right articles.

After a few conversations on the subject with NeoArkadia, I asked some of the Organization members to give me their thoughts on literal translations, which this wiki seems to make heavy use of.

The full thread can be found here, but I'll post some highlights for those that don't want to register at DuelistGroundz to see it.

This is not to suggest that we just accept every name that Dueling Network uses and be done with it. Particularly for cards that have romaji readings that are in Engrish. However, we have access to a group of translators that colloborate on the names and we should take advantage of that fact.

This doesn't just affect new cards either, this argument can be applied to many old cards - we are missing the puns, the wordplay and other references.

So, any thoughts? Cheesedude (talk • contribs) 18:54, January 7, 2013 (UTC)