Board Thread:New on Sword Art Online Wiki/@comment-6697950-20131120164006

Over the past couple of days, there have been quite a few anonymous editors that have been basing their edits on the anime's dub. Although we do not have anything against that (aside from the fact that the anime has messed up quite a few facts so you are likely going to be mistaken with chronology on articles), but there is a problem with basing your edits on the dub's script, as you are then basing your edits on an adaptation of an adaptation. Therefore, I would like to point out a few common mistakes that you might encounter:


 * There have been a couple of anons in the last few days who believed that 血盟騎士団 (Ketsumei Kishidan) should be translated as "Knights of the Blood Oath". Although that is technically a literal translation of the kanji, the writer of the story has specifically given an official name and abbreviation for the guild: "Knights of the Blood" (KoB) (refer to File:KoBexcerpt.png if you want proof). Yes, the author has poor English skills, but it's his story, so he has the right to choose which name he wants to be official and we have to respect that. In other words, adding "oath" to the name is regarded as a mistake on this wiki, so is using a different abbreviation for the guild.
 * The dub translates 聖竜連合 (Sei ryū Rengō) as "Holy Dragon Alliance", however, this is one of their most major mistakes in translations (mostly due to the translators being too lazy to do their research properly). The guild was given an official English reading for the name in volume 8 as ディヴァイン・ドラゴンズ・アライアンス (Divain doragonzu araiansu) and has been given an official abbreviation: "DDA". Thus, this name is pretty much closed to interpretation, unless you believe that D = H and "Divain" "obviously" means "Holy", like the anime dubbers do. I am being sarcastic here of course.
 * Asuna's title 閃光 (Senkō) is translated as just "Flash". There's no "lightning" in it, even though the term likely implies that. The dub likely wanted even people with a very low IQ to understand that, but that does not mean that we have to degrade ourselves and the wiki readers too. Yen Press, who are going to publish the official translations of the book also seem to use just "Flash", so "lightning" is completely unnecessary.
 * Even though "daddy" and "mommy" sound seemingly more appropriate to Americans, this wiki prefers to avoid westernization thus we use "papa" and "mama" as the original does.

That's currently all that I can think of to mention right now, but this list may be updated in the future in case any other issues arise.

And yes, I know that most new editors will likely not see this message even if it is highlighted (as anons don't see messages), I actually made this for more experienced editors to know how to handle such edits. Feel free to comment on any of the issues above or any issues that I haven't mentioned in the comments below.  