Board Thread:Wikia Discussion/@comment-25683568-20150318062713/@comment-25683568-20150622041733

@Ninthsense: There's a reason I've posted on the Suggestion thread multiple times about this. I don't know exactly who the translators are on this wikia. That's why I've posted the notice on the Suggestion thread so that not only translators but _people who care about the topic_ can offer their opinions. There was even a separate thread before about this. But people didn't offer their opinions. At least, not many. (I once again thank those that did the first time around.)

Why I want the translation to go through with Lua is because I (personally) think there is a large translation problem on the wikia currently. And because I think the translation needs to change, I'd like it to happen _before_ the Lua is pushed, not after, so I'm not being pressured to fix Lua that's in production. I did say that translation was blocking Lua implementation, and this is why. (And to be completely honest, one of my motivations for setting the Lua system was because changing translations would be less work if it was done concurrently since I pretty much had to re-create everything _anyway_).

I'm not wanting the full official name for the radar. I just want what I believe is a more accurate representation of the in-game name.

@Generic Zero The thing is that 式 the suffix itself does not convey that it's the year of entering service. It was just a naming convention, a convenient way to generate a model number. The 91 was assigned due to the year being japanese imperial 2591. That does not mean that the 91 is an year. It's just a model number. There's aircraft given a model number based on standard seating capacity, firearms named based on the year they were produced. This is no different.

I target 号 because it generally has a meaning as "No.", like as in the 20.3 guns, train car numbers (３号車, Car No. 3), phone number (電話番号), etc.

As for Bi-type, we can always link to a wikipedia article or something (do we not currently?). Just because everyone else uses an incorrect name doesn't mean we should be using it.

@Everyone: Given the amount of resistance to No., I'm close to giving up and just implementing a opt-in css to show the names I think are correct and let everyone else have the Type names. So be it. I've explained as best my rationale for the change and no-one seems to share my opinion or just doesn't want change so I don't think there is anything else I can do.

Are there any other objections? Mikado and Dechidechi have posted in this thread already so I think they get notifications, if this isn't the case someone tell me and I'll ask them for a final lookover. Then maybe in a week or two I'll have the names fixed and the sandbox pages synced with their push targets and I'll push.

Once again, thank you everyone for taking the time to give your feedback.