Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26140824-20150228110725/@comment-4765539-20150301020227

Your words are all valid, to say the least, Justice. My thoughts on this is that this case is, indeed, original research and nothing more. If it is not stated by the developers, the minds behind the series in the first place, it has no place here, and for my money, not even in trivia. I regret not scrutinizing the content of this place further and relegating myself to eying recent changes every evening upon returning home from work, and I take full responsibility for allowing this to slide past undetected. However, for obligatory elaboration...

Indeed, Night and I did give approval for the implementation of these etymologies from the start. I suppose we could've done a better job looking into their content, but that's in the past, and that's about to be fixed. This case here is, as previously stated, speculative original research - the most logical explanation, that the name is derived from the Greek Arachne, is the one that will stay. As logically sound as the dual language explanation may be, presented as it is, it is indisputably the less plausible of the two. Coincidental language association does NOT belong anywhere on this wiki, because of what it is - coincidence. We may as well mention how Arakune's mask resembles Shy Guy's, how him being a blob is reminiscent of the titular blob from A Boy and His Blob, and so on, and so forth. It's all coincidence, and since coincidence can draw innumerable associations when viewed through so many different eyes, it's simply impractical to include any note of it anywhere. One leads to another, and as we did with trivia, we must do here, before the coincidences grow too numerous and things become as problematic as they did there.

In a nutshell, Justice wins the argument here, all rules are completely inflexible, and from here on, all etymologies will go with the most logically sound and plausible option. Coincidences were eliminated as acceptable in trivia sections, and they shall be treated thus here.

As soon as time becomes more lenient on my side (hopefully tomorrow), I'll personally skim through these sections and beyond, to ensure that all dregs are gotten rid of and that the rules are enforced on all pages.