Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-24753098-20140331014950

I understand that a lot of stuff in the manga and anime have proper Japanese names and their translated English names. It seems like all the pages on this Wiki prefer the Japanese names, and that is a problem.

I appreciate all the hard work people have done making this resource correct and complete, but if people can't navigate it, what good is it? I am a casual fan looking to learn more about the work and I only know things by their English names. I don't know 'Konohagakure'. If you do, that's great, but myself and lots of other people know 'Village Hidden in the Leaves' and that's the only name I'll be able to recognize at this point.

Case in point: I was trying to do some research on the villages and when I went to the 'Village' category everything was in Japanese. This was useless to me as a 'list of villages' because I couldn't read it. So, instead of going through and changing the actual pages people had worked on, I did a little work of my own. I made a Redirect page under the English name of each village and then added that redirect page to the 'Villages' category. When I was done, there was a big list of the English names all under V, where anyone could find their Snow village or Grass village or Star village or whatever. None of the other names were displaced and none of the existing pages were changed, but an English list of villages was available.

This was last night and all my redirect pages have already been removed from the category. Why? What did it hurt to have them there so people could find them? I feel like this should be reversed and English made available for the uninitiated. I'm not just going to go back and do it again, though, I want the community's opinion. Should it be put back? Or, do you have some relevant problem with it? Please discuss. 