Thread:Night Vision/@comment-30069821-20170213123728/@comment-30711988-20170213140005

Well, this is unexpected.
 * >but a lot of the localization is better

"Better" does not mean "correct". We already discussed "Blue" - the word which the developers actually meant by Azure. And what about Organization? It has a special name, which reflects its purpose - "The Information Regulation Organization of the New World". What about localization? "New World Library". And calling Organization "Library" is an insult, actually. The thing you know as "Cauldron" is actually a furnace for smelting, a "Kiln". Cauldron is basically a huge pot, you don't smelt things in it. You smelt them in kilns. So please elaborate, where localization is better than the direct translation from the original. It seems weird at first, but the more you learn about it, the more sense it will make, trust me, I went through that myself.
 * >Also counting that this is an American English wiki so it would make sense to keep the localization

This is a wiki, that's what's important. As a wiki, we aim to spread the correct and relevant information, without distorting it for someone's convenience.
 * >as most people who come here would speak English and would play BlazBlue in English text and thus be confused when seeing the translation first

Yes, it is confusing. But not as confusing as this. Yes, this is a legit screenshot from the localization that you call better than translations. And what about the Library Mode of CF? Two entries named "Observer"! One about Observers, another about Bystanders. Is that not confusing? Then what about the "qualified", which are also frequently called "chosen" and "entitled"? What about magic arts of the series? There is "magic", there is "sorcery", and they are completely different. Yet the localization calls both just "magic", and made a difference only once, when the two terms were used in the same sentence. This is confusing. Not translations, which actually clear all these misunderstandings.
 * >Please keep the localization as it is, with the translations next to them as it has been

Sorry, the voting is over. And even if we count you as a negative vote, we still have more positives. The only way you can persuade Night to change everything back is to take every pair of "translation-localization" and elaborate why exactly the localization is better.
 * >Also why would it be called Face Lift?

Because the developers decided to call it this way. is the name of the move in the original. There's no way this can be translated as "Phase Shift". And this is another mistake of localization: Nu and Lambda have attacks that are named after cars. And "facelift" is a term related to cars, and it is also known as minor model change, so it makes sense, since Nu altered her moveset with this move. It's her name pattern, like Izayoi's Gundams, Azrael's weapons, Arakune's math terms, Litchi's mahjongg terms.
 * >and now I don't Know what anything on the wiki is any more neither will visitors or regular contributors

This is exactly why we put localized names on pages. You want to see the page of, for example, "The Realm". Now scroll to the top of the page, look at that white bar and find a field which says "Search". It is to the left of your avatar, and there is a magnifying glass icon on that field. Found it? Now write "The Realm" in that field. Look, it suggests you a page! The "Imagined Landscape" page! But you're still not sure if this is it, right? I mean, you search for "The Realm", not some "landscape". So press that blue button with white arrow pointing to the right. "To the right" means it should point at your avatar. Now what does the first search result say? "The Imagined Landscape is localized as Realm". So the page you've been looking for is actually "Imagined Landscape"! You found it! Congratulations!

...of course, if you'd paid more attention to what's going on, instead of mindlessly going "I agree" just to change your mind afterwards, you'd see this. A list of which term is replaced with which.
 * >Hardly anyone on this wiki would play BlazBlue with Japanese text.

And this is exactly the point of having the translations. People who play with Japanese text don't actually need the wiki, they don't deal with all sorts of confusing mistakes and misunderstanding which the localization brought to us. Everyone else have the right to know what's actually going on in the games, without the localization inventing several names for one term or merging several terms into one.