Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-7292165-20180617235445/@comment-1732320-20180619133307

Jeez this is rough. Late to the discussion I know.

The translations that we get are from Shounensuki (I think some are on forum pages he had and some are on user pages for him here) who had done quite a few databook translations before retiring and Seelentau (I think?) for the last databook. It’s not exactly "word for word" it’s simply a translation.

With that said, I’ve reverted quite a few of Raichin123's changes to technique entries, not only because the information was translated from the databook but speaking from a content editor's perspective there are cases where they’re modified articles and changed the entire meaning of it or else skewed the information in it. The reason we started using "databook translations" so long ago was because that information is the most accurate interpretation of what a technique is meant to be described. There’s less margin left to our interpretation and as a result less arguments amount whose ibterpretation is wrong or right.

Snapper2 made the bid to have the translations in quotations a while back, but it never took (there was the issue of whether a translation no matter how accurate can be considered their exact words) I think that would be a more effective use of our time rather than what looks like busy work editing articles that are otherwise fine…