Thread:Angelsbouquet/@comment-28201753-20181113153459/@comment-36590736-20181113205748

Hello! Thank you for the time and care put into your response.

It's a decision I can review. To be clear, all stories on the wiki are and will be subject to review, and this is not the first story to be reviewed by myself or others. There is nothing about this particular story that triggered the review.

Faithfulness to the original Japanese text has always been a translation guideline. While translator license is encouraged in making dialogue flow, if a translator's personal interpretation eclipses the writer's apparent intent, it both confuses and alarms readers. It creates implications that did not exist in the original.

In a related example, in the past (though I believe all instances of it were removed before my time), some translators would translate Koga's "baka" as the r-word. While it can certainly be headcanoned or reasoned why Koga might be the type to say that, it errs on being founded largely on translator interpretation of the character, rather than canon information.

Non-Japanese readers rely on this this wiki as an objective archive of translations, and can't be certain which elements of a translation are translator's personal preferences or are canon facts established by the original writer, and so trust translators to tend toward the latter. Translation can be a weighty responsibility.

Again, thank you for your time. The translation will be reviewed.

(Apologies for any typos; I just woke up.)