[WikiEN-l] MUD history dissolving into the waters of time

[Ken Arromdee]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
>I seem to recall the issue on this mailing list
>centered around whether a certain Japanese
>word was indeed mistranslated, and created
>a metric mailing-list load of discussion on one
>of the wikipedia mailing-lists...


It was similar to the mud case: certain people have a certain idea of what
they want in Wikipedia, and are trying to force the use of policies to
get it to be that way, even though that's not what the policies are designed
for and they're not being properly used anyway.

There are anime fans who like the Japanese original, and anime fans who
don't.  And some of the latter category are rabid enough about it that they'll
prioritize "use the American version" ahead of everything else, and therefore
want to use it even if it's mistranslated.  They'll misquote policy and edit
policy just to get it done that way, with no regard for common sense.