Board Thread:Wikia Discussion/@comment-25683568-20150318062713/@comment-460323-20150701225728

Generic Zero wrote: ...'Type 22 Surface Radar Kai Yon' on the other hand is extremely jarring as you would be just instantly switching from English to Romanized Japanese at the drop of a hat... I think translating it as 'Yon' will be more foolproof and reduce the amount of adjustments should the devs decide to troll the English-speaking community by peppering the game with more terms. 'Kai' for example, could've been translated as Mk by previous translators which would've been disastrous as currently, thanks to all the game files ripping, we realize that the shipgirls use 'Kai' while the Abyssals use Mk for their equipments. For someone that doesn't know Japanese, they wouldn't have catch on to the difference especially since not everyone is interested in ripping game files and simply assume the devs use the same term for both, which is false. For people that don't notice, well, they don't care anyway so it doesn't matter.

Likewise, the number 22 and Yon helps players without any knowledge in Japanese to roughly know that the devs use different terms to name the equipment, i.e. with number and Japanese character in this case. There's no assurance that the devs will not implement foreign ships with 改２ designation in the future, which will screw with the naming consistency and will require further changes by translators that'll take over ckwng (assuming that he'll stop playing or the game will last that long anyway).

Translating a game should be about conveying game informations in a consistent manner. Unless we're actually attempting to localize the game instead, which doesn't make sense since there are Asian players using this site, then I suppose it's fine to promote the glorious English language and disregard any form of consistency and intentions behind the dev's (horrible) naming convention.