Thread:SpidersOnDrugs7/@comment-27075564-20181019160231/@comment-27075564-20181020163514

No, you make valid points and we actually decided on 2 things here awhile back (honestly can't remember if I added it to our guidelines though so I'll check on that as well):


 * 1) if it's spelled that way in canon in the official English translations, we'd keep it that way (for example, Mousesack is Mousesack in the English translations, he's only Ermion in the games which are considered non-canon).


 * 1) if a character's name changes between canon and the games, we'd keep all the game entries with the game spelling (for example the journal, game quests where they're named, etc.) but their biography would use the canon spelling (for example Iorweth is still kept that way in the books, but the game quests and his journal entry use the game spelling of Iorveth).

Of course there's a few exceptions, like one where the translator kept a Polish word but it turned out the word wasn't correct even in Polish (like they put "chickensandwich" instead of "chicken sandwich") so in those cases we did use the correct spelling but made a note that it showed up differently in the book and was likely a typing error.

Also Imperator is actually used in the English books but to make it more confusing, they tend to switch it off and on with Emperor which is of course very odd as one is the leader of an Empire while the other is usually the commander of an army and a position below the emperor. We just finally decided to use "Imperator" for the page but it was really just a toss-up there because the books being weird.

Beyond that though we're perfectly ok with text being cleaned up because, as you said, you can tell some parts weren't written by native English speakers and so they're a bit disjointed.

Also yeah, spell checking some reason doesn't work in text boxes like this :/ it works fine on articles pages but as far back as I can remember it's never worked on wikia text boxes for some reason.