Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170521154728/@comment-28069733-20170523200544

Hasemiru wrote: I'm fine with EE, but the problem now is that translations are gonne be messed up due to the constant confusion.

Etorofu is classified as a Patrol Frigate and her lines also state that in KC3Kai, but the first mission that makes use of these types of ships in the wikia states Costal defense ships and in KC3Kai they are stated as DE, this demonstrates that there are internal struggles to classify these ships and the lack of action will make this matter more complex for newer players.

We have to reach a consensus to allow all the English Kancolle comunities and those who derive from its classification system to accept a unique standard. How can we reach a general consensus without tearing ourselves apart?

The issue is not only an internal one, but also an external one.

I dont think that has anything to do with this struggle in any case. KC3 Kai doesnt actually literally translate the quest, the content is mostly intended to tell people what they need to do in order to complete a quest.

Dialogues on the other hand, is a completely different story. 海防艦 by itself can be translated to Coastal Defense Ship. Just because it is now accepted to use DE to refer Kaiboukans, it does not mean that people are allowed to mistranslate them to Destroyer Escorts in dialogues. The Patrol Frigate part is probably a leftover when the consensus had switched to using PF, but the same thing applies, you simply dont mistranslate 海防艦 to Patrol Frigate either. Anyone I see doing that on wikia would be shot on sight by me.