Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170521154728/@comment-460323-20170528215150

Ar-cen-ciel wrote: So the verdict is like this:
 * Kaibokan will be officially classified as "Coastal Defense Ship" in this Wikia.
 * DE will be adopted as the official Kaibokan abbreviation in this Wikia.
 * Historian editors are free to provide notes in the ship class descriptions.

If it needs revision, do tell me about it. Is there a need to keep referring to Kaibokan as Coastal Defense Ship if we're settling on DE?

Practically every other ship class uses w/e that's on the card, or at least something close to it (e.g. Aircraft Cruiser -> Aviation Cruiser), so it's odd to have one that's literally translated for no apparent reason. Plus, I still think having an abbreviation of DE for Coastal Defense Ship is ridiculous given that DE isn't meant to abbreviate Coastal Defense Ship.

In the off chance that American DE got introduced with different kanji but the same classification, they could just share the same abbreviation and classification with a trivia explaining the different kanji term rather than classifying both of them as two different entities. This, of course, is under the assumption that future American DE would be considered equivalent to Kaiboukan in terms of game mechanic.