On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, David Gerard wrote:
If you want to move it, you need some good sources that actually use the name you advocate. Are there any?
It's a popular culture article. Our rules for sourcing are completely broken for popular culture articles. Moreover, most written material in English comes from the company that mistranslated the name.
It's not hard to find sources that do use the right name, though because it's a popular culture article it's just about impossible to find anything that counts as a source by Wikipedia standards:
Wikipedia itself described the origin of the name until the person who changed the name also took it out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tetsusaiga&diff=225145533&...
The name 'Tetsusaiga' is a mistranslation from the original Japanese name for the sword. InuYasha's sword is actually known as the 'Tessaiga' in Japanese but due to an error when translating the series from Japanese to English, it became the Tetsusaiga. The smaller version of the hiragana character "tsu" () was mistaken for the larger version of the hiragana character "tsu" (). So, instead of doubling the consonant "s" in the name, a "tsu" was inserted into the name, thus giving us 'Tetsusaiga'. By the time Viz discovered the error, it was decided that it was too late to change the name back to the original.
http://www.funtrivia.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=467842&... "Well, like I said, I directly consulted with someone able to read kana, and they as I quoted above, told me that the correct spelling is "Tessaiga", he even had another double-check this, and that person who double-checked his translation was Japanese born, living in Japan, so I would think it is safe to say they are right."