Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170521154728/@comment-460323-20170530174505

Zel-melon wrote: I actually have a simpler reason for why I vote for DE despite it being wrong: every other English community are using it. The goal is to keep it simple and universal. Sure, it can technically be wrong in the future, but if other places already settled with DE then we should just accept DE and be done with it. But wikia is the only one referring to DE as Coastal Defense Ship and hence fail to be universal.

Joke aside, I saw this and this (refer to this as to how categories are done for other ship classes) and thought I should point it out. Not sure if the wikia is running on defense or defence.

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While I still think abbreviating Coastal Defense Ship as DE is ridiculous, I'm starting to see the beauty of going with the literal translation while I was going through the DE ships pages.

Excerpt from Shimushu's introduction line:

海を守る……海防艦っす！

I'm the Coastal Defense Ship that will protect the seas, su! ''It doesn't really work even with Coastal Defense Ship, so good luck making that work with (Destroyer) Escort. Thank god Ckwng for (probably) deciding to go with the first thing he sees in wikipedia when he was making the ship formatting module back in 2015 .''