Talk:MedievalGallantmon

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The picture doesn't really show to me that Dunas is a lance. Sure the other end is sharp but he seems to be holding it more like an axe. And the phrase "That looks like a pole axe" troubles me. A "pollaxe" as the weapon is referred to is not simply an axe mounted on a pole. It is a specific weapon and I think "looks like a pole axe" should be reworded in this regard to better represent the nature of the weapon. I thought I'd start a discussion before changing anything. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollaxe_(polearm)
 * The official profile uses the symbol for "Lance" or "Javelin", and that's what we go with. It is kind of a catch-all for polearm's, though, so if you can find the exact type of weapon it is, that could work. 09:31, May 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * Would it be ok to call it a Labrys? Historically, they could be huge, and I think it fits better than Spear does. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labrys Jmac28211 (talk) 05:18, June 15, 2014 (UTC)
 * Labryses don't have that spike at the end, making MDmon's weapon more similar to a Spontoon, Halberd, or a Partisan. That could be mentioned in a Design section, which we will be adding to pages once we get he formats figured out for the new MoS. You can start work on it now if you want. For the lead paragraph, however, that needs to be based on the official profile, which unambiguously says "lance/spear". 20:06, June 15, 2014 (UTC)

F*** the people choosing names
For god's sakes. 02:30, February 15, 2016 (UTC)
 * Might want to double check that cause I assume they misread Medieval as Medical. Chimera-gui (talk) 03:23, February 15, 2016 (UTC)
 * Or we can just make a special exception that Cyber Sleuth doesn't matter, since the people localizing it clearly thought the same thing. F*** this incredibly stupid noise. You have fan patches for translations made with love and care, but instead of hiring people who'd almost be willing to do it for free, they come out with this. There better be a damn patch, seriously. 06:32, February 15, 2016 (UTC)
 * I would be OK with declaring Cyber Sleuth an exception to the first dub name. If I remember correctly, I was one of the people talking against arbitrariety in the past because it makes no sense, but now I seriously consider arbitrariety a viable option for this game. Heck, MedicalGallantmon!? How do you commit a misread of this level? That doesn't even the Piyomon/Biyomon excuse of dakuten and handakuten being similar, it's just a colossal Huck-up. I swear, when I'm in vacation, I'll make fanart of MedievalDukemon as a doctor just to mock the dub team.
 * Aaaaaand... This puts in question the reliability of the official translation. I was intending on using the English game's dialogue to get info about the multiverse, but now I think I'll try to make my own translations of the same scenes. 00:00, February 16, 2016 (UTC)/22:00, February 15, 2016 (Brasília, summer time)
 * I know folks don't like using the dub names of related species to auto-dub undubbed species but I do think that using the name "MedievalGallantmon" would make the most sense. Chimera-gui (talk) 03:52, February 16, 2016 (UTC)
 * That's not always consistent, though. We have the whole BantyoLiomon > BanchoLeomon thing, and a few other examples. Erg...honestly, we have to go with MedicalGallantmon, it's the only dub name and this is a dub wiki. Our duty is to facts. However, if anyone can get me contact info for BandaiNamco, I really want us to try and contact them about a possible patch. 09:28, February 16, 2016 (UTC)
 * You can try this E-mail address but I can't guarantee how successful you'll be: support@bandainamcoent.com Chimera-gui (talk) 01:09, February 17, 2016 (UTC)
 * We can always change the name to MedicalGallantmon temporarily and change it back when MedievalDukemon is released in Digimon Heroes, can't we? A la Lucemon Larva. --Charles.929 (talk) 22:59, February 17, 2016 (UTC)
 * ...Lucemon Rival?...yeah, Heroes supersedes Cyber Sleuth for all content. For fuck's sake. 03:33, February 19, 2016 (UTC)
 * Except that we've already confirmed that Heroes is using the original Japanese names so I don't think that it should be considered for official dub names. Not to mention the fact that Heroes is technically a shovelware game. And Kryten? Namco Bandai has a history of this sort of shit with other franchises they own according to someone I've talk to before. Chimera-gui (talk) 04:10, February 19, 2016 (UTC)
 * It's an English, localized game that was released before Cyber Sleuth. If we're already willing to martyr ourselves for the policy, I don't see why Heroes should be excluded just because it was less of a mess than the localizations usually are. 04:46, February 19, 2016 (UTC)
 * It's "less of a mess" only by virtue of it just using the Digimon Reference Book's English names rather than using long established dub names such as Gatomon or Omnimon which is exactly the reason why I'm against using it in the first place. I am already leery about using a app game, which are notorious for being low quality garbage hence the earlier  comment, as a primary localization source over an actual console game that was brought over by fan demand despite the latter obviously suffering Namco Bandai's typical poor translation standards. But the fact that said app game doesn't even bother using long established localized names is a huge red flag for me. Chimera-gui (talk) 06:11, February 19, 2016 (UTC)
 * Digimon World Dawn and Dusk used "WarGarurumon", "BlackSaintGargomon", "SlashAngemon", and "Cherubimon". The policy was never "use the most-dubbed names", it was "use the original localized names, prioritizing anime, then manga, then games, then cards/toys". Heroes was localized first, and produces names that are the least likely to confuse readers. If the policy was on "how faithful is this release to previous localizations", Fusion and Cyber Sleuth would be out on the street anyway, because of shit like Samudramon and Magnamon. That Heroes is an app game is also immaterial, as it's still officially licensed and we were happily using names from Digimon Fusion Battles before this. 16:45, February 19, 2016 (UTC)
 * For anyone here saying what came first is the official name, we just had a discussion about this and the rules say that, for games, the latest one supercedes the former ones. 18:39, February 19, 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you! And for your information Kryten, Samudramon isn't a bad name since the page straight up says that it's a samurai version of WarGreymon. Also, I'd argue the use of the Japanese names would be more likely to confuse people who have no experience with the Japanese material. Chimera-gui (talk) 18:47, February 19, 2016 (UTC)
 * And WarGreymon isn't a Dramon, so it's name is misinformation on a pretty basic level. And Lucemon Larva is a larva, not a Rival, and MedievalDukemon is not a medic. These names are shit. I'm fully in favor of revising that policy to use first game first, as we do with all other categories, but if there's no consensus for that, fine. These names are terrible, but the point of the policy is to be consistent. 19:34, February 19, 2016 (UTC)
 * Just to be clear, I would be OK with changing the policy on games dub names, I was just pointing out that the policy was being misquoted. Why do we do later names again?
 * Also, Kryten, you said we have to use MedicalGallantmon because it's the only dub name available. Are you saying that, regardless of rules, if there were other dub names available, we could arbitrarily decide to ignore this one, if there were community consensus? 20:33, February 20, 2016 (UTC)
 * I believe the reasoning is the same as the reasoning as the overall naming policy: Since Species can go through multiple names within the span of a year, we use the most current as to avoid situations such the Bearmon/Kumamon controversy where Bearmon's name was mistranslated as "Kumamon" in Digimon World 3 despite the fact that not only did Japanese material, specifically the Frontier movie Island of Lost Digimon, use the name Bearmon from the beginning but the name "Kumamon" would be used for a different Digimon altogether not long after DW3 forcing Bandai to correct its mistake. Chimera-gui (talk) 21:20, February 20, 2016 (UTC)
 * G-Santos, I'm saying that I believe the game priority policy should be changed to prefer first over last, as done with the other categories. I accepted the previous policy as consensus the last time it was brought up, but due to Cyber Sleuth, the pros of having that game as the odd one out are less than the cons. 20:34, February 21, 2016 (UTC)
 * Just throwing a wrench in the works, but I'd prefer most common, with a side of personal discretion when it comes to which applies. I gave an impassioned rant about us being able to supersede really dumbass names if there are localized alternatives on Talk:Marsmon. I'd still say we'd have to use MedicalGallantmon because it is the only localized name we have for it, but it lets up mix and match between Heroes! and Cyber Sleuth to try and pick the best of both worlds. Lanate (talk) 02:02, February 22, 2016 (UTC)
 * I can accept that. As long as we use the work's name when referring to the entity within that work, it shouldn't cause too much of a problem. 15:21, February 22, 2016 (UTC)
 * That seems good enough for me, but would it affect Hououmon? 22:51, February 22, 2016 (UTC)
 * I think so, because a quick poll does the following:
 * Hououmon:
 * Tamers
 * Digimon Battle
 * All-Star Rumble
 * Heroes!
 * Cyber Sleuth
 * Phoenixmon
 * World
 * World 2
 * World 3
 * Digital Card Battle
 * World DS
 * Dawn and Dusk
 * Championship
 * Masters
 * Digi-Battle Card Game
 * D-Tector/Card Game
 * Digimon Collectible Card Game
 * It may get moved back in the future as it seems like the current trend is leaning toward Hououmon dominance. Lanate (talk) 03:08, February 23, 2016 (UTC)
 * Would the "personal discretion" cover the Ebonwumon/Zhuqiaomon debacle? That, Daemon, and Hououmon were, I believe, the foundational cases for why we started the prioritization system. I've come to accept Creepymon and Phoenixmon, since those are at least names that describe the Digimon, but Ebonwumon/Zhuqiaomon is literally a top-to-bottom fuckup. 17:16, February 23, 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd assume so that and the Bearmon/Kumamon example I mentioned above were why the dub name policy was developed in the first place. Chimera-gui (talk) 19:43, February 23, 2016 (UTC)
 * Actually, Kumamon isn't at all a difficult situation. The names are usable for both of them. Daemon and Hououmon were that we preferred the anime names, but Ebonwumon/Zhuqiaomon are the only ones I know (until Fusion and @#$@ing CS) that were absolutely, 100% unacceptable because they were such a monumental fuckup.
 * Now, we have Magnamon, which is just good fun all around. And, I've read (but can't yet confirm) that CS makes the same Ebonwumon/Zhuqiaomon fuckup that we instituted prioritization to avoid. I am very, very against any formulation of the policy that defeats the entire reason we instituted it in the first place. From what I've read, the truly bad errors in CS we've been discussing are localized to the Medals (like WarGrowlmon). I would be fine going with our previous policy if we make an exception that the Medals simply are not usable for localization purposes -- it's too shoddily done. 20:26, February 23, 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd be fine with ignoring the Medals as necessary if those are the biggest screw-up in CS though I do think that the more reasonable localisations, such as FlaWizarmon into FlameWizardmon as that lines up with two established localization trends: "Fla(me)" which is shared with Flamemon & Flamedramon and Wizar(d) which is shared with Wizardmon, should be kept at the very least. Chimera-gui (talk) 21:23, February 23, 2016 (UTC)
 * In addition to FlameWizardmon, I also like Agumon Expert and Fake Agumon Expert. I'd like to carve out a mix-and-match provision, especially if I can do things like get around Chaosdromon with the help of Heroes and Cyber Sleuth. Lanate (talk) 04:04, February 24, 2016 (UTC)
 * BanchoLillymon would also be another reasonable localization to keep as it shares an established localization trend with Lillymon as well as the use of "Bancho" in the dub names which is shared with its fellow Bancho, specifically BanchoLeomon in Data Squad. Chimera-gui (talk) 05:06, February 24, 2016 (UTC)