Ken Arromdee wrote:
Summary: in the Inuyasha series, a sword is named the "Tessaiga". The English licensor made a mistake in the translation, calling it "Tetsusaiga". One person insists that because that is the official English translation, the article *must* be called by the incorrect name...
I was about to say, "Clearly, the article should be named 'Tessaiga', with a redirect from 'Tetsusaiga'.". But I see the situation is currently the opposite.
One of my fantasies for Wiki software is a way for one article to have two or more names, with absolutely no distinction as to which is the "primary" or "secondary" name, precisely so as to be able to utterly defuse situations like this...
(Yeah, I know, it still wouldn't work; a sufficiently obstreperous editor could edit war to get an allegedly-unofficial duplicate name removed. But it's a pleasant thought...)