Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26091970-20150604000724/@comment-42.60.228.10-20151001170753

Fujihita wrote: Not fixing trivial mistakes is one thing, not fixing detrimental mistakes is another.
 * The reason why they fixed the sun revolved the Earth is that it makes a difference in studying astronomical phenomenons such as the orbit of comets, planets and the likes. It's between mapping planets to orbit the stationary sun and mapping planets to orbit the moving Earth. Using the second mapping, we would get a "terrestrial system" that changes the planetary members every season due to the wrong reference point.

It would be silly if that mistake wasn't fixed.

As for the case of current flow and this designation naming case, the impact would be trivial at best. Other than the slim possibility of Shinano being Large Carrier, I haven't seen any practical benefits. I'm still waiting for the justification why we have to bother ourselves with the upheaval (edit wars and people bitching at one another like left and right wing politicians on gay justice) ensuing the change. Fair enough. At least until I come up with a better counterexample, but I'm pretty busy at the moment.

With that said, know that most of those who read the wikia only have knowledge from places like Wikipedia, and people will want to keep pointing it out. And if they do that, that means it stil isn't too late to rectify the mistake. And just because making a mistake is okay doesn't mean that we have to keep making it. One reason being that a mistake that may seem trivial now could very well end up detrimental some time in the future. Besides, we have had a precedent (fast/slow BB) and it would not be right on the integrity of the wikia for us to set a double standard just because we're too lazy to change it this time round. It'll be telling everyone else that we can make whatever mistake we like despite knowing it's a mistake just because we feel like it, and anyone who wants to complain about it can just suck it up.

Ultimately, we will have to be concerned about any edit wars that will arise from this, because ultimately we care about the state of info on the wikia, unless you say you don't, in which case I'll have to wonder why you're even here in the first place. I would say that changing it to be factually correct would be a preemptive measure to prevent edit wars from happening in the first place.