Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-732150-20150912045534/@comment-1207741-20150912060556

Omnibender wrote: Was that thread highlighted back then? I seriously do not remember it. I made the topic and I tend not to highlight things. So...

Omnibender wrote: I just anticipated the "everyone would look for the Viz title" argument Which I think is largely moot. The average person will identify episodes and chapters by their numbers, not their names. If we're really concerned about helping readers find things, we'd want to come up with a viable solution for this, not stress over which translations we use.

Omnibender wrote: and the "moving so many articles around will fubar the semantic data" argument would come forth if I had suggested that. Which can be partly combated by not suppressing redirects.

Another solution would be to be flexible with translations. If Viz's translation is not 100% word-for-word what our translator(s) would use but is still correct to the Japanese, perhaps leave it be. I believe Shippuden titles tend to be reasonably close, whereas the original anime tends to be a bit freer, as I recall.

Looking over Wikipedia's old literal translations, Viz's translation do seem to be quite close. So it's just a matter of how picky we want to be. I would say that when Viz's translation differs from the wiki's practices, as in Wind Style: Rasen Shuriken!, those at least should be updated.