User talk:Fizzle/Sandbox

Let it be on the record that I like the idea, Fizz. I've often wondered about the canon nature of translated names. 17:34, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, they're canon, but we often directly romanize them from the Japanese if it's a nonsense name (which Nintendo often does anyway, most Zelda enemies are like that), or sometimes translated if it's a specific word. But whether Nintendo would of translated them the same way or given them entirely new names is always unknown. This would be a good way of mainly pointing out which pages have English names and which ones are translated. The fact is a number of things never got English names and probably never will, while the Japanese guides have a habit of naming virtually everything. 18:22, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I, personally, am really, but I think this template's a good idea. 00:19, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Neither am I, but since we already do it, I thought this template would be ideal to show to people that it's not an official translation of an otherwise official name. I don't want this template to be used as an excuse to take more liberties, of course, rather the opposite. 12:52, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I like the idea of it, but I'm not sure about the appearance. It doesn't make much sense for our template for full-blown non-canon titles (Name) to be more subtle than our template for translated names. If anything, it should be the other way around. I'm thinking either this template should be made into something like Name, or Name should be made into something like this. 22:13, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I think the issue is the amount of information it needs to convey. This one is quite specific, while the other one is just for fanon names, and that's pretty self-explanatory. Ideally I'd rather get to a point where we don't have to use that other template at all (surely we can find official names for almost everything in the games by now?), but if you can think of a way to solve this issue, let me know. We could always create a similar template for the other one. However... the fan-created name template is still used for fan-created names not necessarily heading a page, but otherwise mentioned in the article, so having a template like this heading a page for a minor mention would be a bit needless. I have trouble thinking about how to minimize this template in the same way without losing the whole point of it, however, hm. 22:53, 18 December 2012 (UTC)