Talk:Sorey

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I didn't move the page when I saw Kikonu's edit yesterday because there technically is no official Japanese rendering of the name using English letters... except for "Sray", which is dumb. I didn't want to be strict about maintaining only official Japanese names in this particular case because the only ones that I can find are their character page URLs on the official website on Teichan, and "Sray" is obviously going to be rejected by everyone, along with "Ari" despite the kana indicating "Alicia". No other promotional materials spell out their names, as far as I have seen. I was trying to overlook this because "Sorey" is just as valid of a translation of his name as "Slay", and it might as well be used already. "Slay" was also invented by the English Tales community, so I no longer consider this spelling to be worth using over "Sorey".

Granted, Kikonu should not have moved the page, and any page move by anyone who is not an admin truly should be reverted because normal users do not have a right to move or rename pages. This is just another bullshit change Wikia forced on us recently when the original setting was that this is an admin-only action. And it caused us nothing but problems. There is literally zero instance of it being a good change on this site. Page renaming by normal users is NOT an expression of good faith editing as far as I am concerned. I am just reiterating this sentiment for those who come to this page wondering why the name has been reverted again, or if any future name changes will occur or be reverted. Autonomous changing of page names is not a right of normal users, and violation of this should be met with harsh reprimands.

Now the situation is this: should we be ultra-strict about names and use "Sray" to be consistent with our existing policies of using official Japanese names until localization occurs, or should we make an exception for this game for the sake of expediency and use "Sorey", given how the "official" rendering is not really used anywhere else but the website URLs? It really should be one or the other, or we can ignore the situation and leave it as is. This was my original stand, as I stated on Talk:Leia Rolando, as veigue as I was about the matter. Though I am of the opinion that pages for these characters are useless at the present time due to what little information is available to be worth saying, and that this page creation was premature. I'd prefer to go with no page at all and bypass the dilemma entirely (aka take the fourth option), but I'm sure the broader community will disagree. Whatever happens, if Kikonu attempts another page move on his own, just ban him.

Shizune Hakamichi (talk) 03:09, July 12, 2014 (UTC)