Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1207741-20180902030231/@comment-4271790-20180902223815

Snapper2 wrote: Should we rename these to their respective literal translations to match with Parasitic Destruction Insect Technique and other cases? Or should we rename Parasitic Destruction Insect Technique to Kikaichū Technique to match up with the terms Snapper listed? Elveonora wrote: My personal opinion:
 * Bikōchū, Bikōchūmodoki, Kidaichū, Kikaichū, Kochū, Rinkaichū, Shōkaichū
 * either we should go with whatever the english dub of anime and VIZ go with
 * or we should keep it untranslated or translated in a way that the intended meaning doesn't get lost in the translation

For the latter, this is just my opinion, but as an example: 'Light Style' seems vague. Is it called Light Style because it produces/manipulates light? Or is it meant as 'light' (low weight) or does it cover the dozen other meanings the word 'light' can have in English in various contexts? Well, I think 'Yang' tells us much better what it's about, that it has to do with duality and what not.

But what I'm trying to say here, is that we should be as consistent as possible and we either go with 'most official' or 'most sensible' Going with the official English anime and/or VIZ translations would save us the tedious semantic arguments, but I understand that the official translations at times aren't always the most accurate. The conundrum with Light Style is also a good point to bring up. Hawkeye2701 wrote: Obviously proper names shouldn't be translated. So we shouldn't expect to translate things like Kakashi and group names literally. Character names weren't brought up in the original post for that reason. Though this could be explicitly stated in the Naming policy as well, I don't see how that would hurt. Seelentau wrote: They're all valid translations of some of the terms listed above. I'm not sure where Snapper wants to go with this. There haven't been issues with translations in years, why fix something that's not broken? Yeah I will admit, these are an exorbitant amount of terms to go through and addressing them all seems... a tad bit strenuous. Many terms that are listed I feel are fine as they are. To address what I think is "broken", I presumed from the previous discussion that the issue lied with inconsistencies across articles with translations such as Parasitic Destruction Insect Technique (aka Kikaichū Technique) and Kikaichū (aka Parasitic Destruction Insect) or, like how Snapper brought up in the previous discussion, how some articles use "-gakure" and others use "Village". Why is this the case?