Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26871067-20161019085933/@comment-4932025-20161019174724

Olivemeister wrote: So, re: the Senritsu vs. Melody thing, a legit question. Well, all of my questions have been legit, but, anyway. (I hope you guys don't mind if I sort of shift this thread into a general "translation discussion" thing, since my original concern was mostly addressed.)

If this is the standard that's going to be followed by the wiki (going with the translated versions of character names in the case that they are translated), what's the deal going to be with Nanika?

I know there's currently... something going on in regards to getting a separate page now that we know concretely that Nanika is not Alluka's hatsu, and I'm hugely in favor of getting that sorted out as soon as possible - the information on Alluka's page re: powers is completely outdated, and there's no indication anywhere that said info is incorrect. But Nanika needing a page is sort of another topic and that has its own place already. I don't feel I'm in any position to do something about that - it feels like a big project, and I don't wanna go there especially without admin approval.

The Crunchyroll subs translate Nanika's name into "Something", while Viz's adaptation of the manga keeps "Nanika". I'm not sure what Viz does with Senritsu - as far as I recall, they chose to translate her name - so I'm curious as to which would take priority? As far as I can tell, the wiki users universally use Nanika, myself included, and if I were to have to make a decision on the matter I'd immediately go with Nanika, no hesitation.

Crunchyroll themselves use Viz's name translations for the most part, they don't use "Kuroro" or "Qwrof" they use "Chrollo", Viz didn't change "Hisoka" Morow to Secretly Morow or "Machi" to Town and thank god they didn't. I don't have a problem with Quwrof Wrlccywrlir read as Kuroro Rushirufuru becoming Chrollo Lucilfer, I mean that's just the romanji reading of the name but it seems to be a bit arbitrary when Viz translates japanese names that literally mean something, they should've never done that and kept it as it is (Senritsu instead of Melody).