Thread:KrytenKoro/@comment-35109290-20180716165043/@comment-134861-20190731123954

You could perhaps ask the translator? No, I can't. I have an extremely busy life. It is the responsibility of the person adding the information to provide the original, official sources for other editors to verify against. That's how wikis work.

The translator is extremely reliable for their contributions to the fandom Just like any of us, they're not perfect, and we are specifically trying to avoid or anything similar. We need to always refer to the original, primary sources. If the translators translation checks out and they give us permission to use it, we can provide that translation credited to them in the article, but we still need to confirm it's valid.

Kageprofan24100 wrote: It is a bit disconcerting if scans are needed to confirm every single piece of information from the series when it is readily available via the translators, especially as false information with no sources has been listed elsewhere on the Wiki before.

The fandom's translations have been wrong before (very, very wrong, such as the "true enemy" in Frontier, the Child forms of the Evil Warriors, or Aldamon's weapons/attacks), and that false information on the wiki is not something the wiki wants to have, so it makes no sense to use it as an example of "what was accepted elsewhere". It wasn't accepted, the staff just haven't been able to burn it yet.

Sorry, but as Kizuna gets closer and more and more new info gets dropped, it really doesn't make sense to withhold so much of that information from the fanbase due to "not having scans" when in many cases scans really aren't needed for this to be clarified (for example, the official website is more than enough of a reference which doesn't require the use of scans). This is not a news site. This is an encyclopedia. Everything should be sourced and vetted, and we have no obligation, whatsoever, to try to "cash in" on whatever the latest buzz is.

and it doesn't really take a rocket scientist to figure out the rest + where conflicting timeline issues happen, and in those cases, those can be easily noted regardless if they conflict or not. It doesn't take anything because it is simply not appropriate for an encyclopedia to try to "puzzle out" things that aren't stated in canon. Our job is to note what the sources say, and leave it to the reader to pick and choose from that.

It also makes the Wiki extremely restrictive when it comes to being able to be edited with new information, which doesn't exactly help the fanbase. That is literally exactly how an encyclopedia is supposed to be. Any additions should have sources and be vetted. That's the entire point.

If fans want breaking news that is not fully vetted, they are plenty of fansites for that. Our job is, first and foremost, to make sure our information is accurate. That means we will necessarily be posting information long after all the other fansites are done with it.

I apologize for coming off somewhat harsh here, but your posts indicate that you have a very different idea of what the site is supposed to be than the encyclopedia it is.