Board Thread:Wikia Discussion/@comment-25683568-20150318062713/@comment-25534439-20150404210609

I should preface this with a question of the goal of the proposed name changes: Is the purpose improved translation or transliteration? Paraphrased: Is the goal to convey the name as it would probably appear in english, or is it to represent as literally as possible the japanese name? The former might make for easier reading, the latter would lean more correct to the in-game name.

Few comments regarding the proposed name changes, assuming a more translation oriented approach:

Generally: What is the point of including the word "Mount" in the gun names? It adds nothing to the name (see here, they're all still quite clear). While it might be technically correct to include it, that's not always the best approach in translation.

Generally: In similar manner, "Single" does not convey any information that could not be inferred by the lack of a multiplicative adjective. "12cm Gun" contains all the information needed to understand the calibur and weapon.

4. 12.7cm Twin High-angle Mount + Anti-Aircraft Fire Director -> 12.7cm High-angle Gun + Anti-Aircraft Fire Director

As discussed at mild length here the name does not include the "Twin" consideration, but it is an upgrade from the twin gun and its image is of a twin gun. It would probably be best to maintain the "Twin" in the name. I believe 25. 8cm Twin High-angle Mount has similar arguments made for it.

31/32. Anti-torpedo Bulges: Might disagree with this; Anti-torpedo bulges made sense to me as a description of their function. Unless there's some naval engineering I'm not familiar with, "Extension Bulge" doesn't mean anything to me. Extension of what?

35. New Model High Temperature High Pressure Boiler: Can't see how doubling up the word "High" helps here.

RADARS: remove arbitrary capitalization. debatable same with SONAR. It's technically an acronym, but people are lazy.

50. 53cm Submarine Bow Torpedo Mount (8 tubes): While less true to the ordering of the japanese text, it is more consistent with the other torpedo equipment to lead with the torpedo size.