Talk:Mashu Kyrielight/@comment-84.119.69.171-20171031202555/@comment-31734709-20171113091321

I don't think the wikia will allow such a change.

Due to a number of reasons, the NA translating team has lost the trust of the community. Thus, even if it is official, you will have a hard time convincing most that it should be the name to be used in this page.

Additionally, whilst the NA game is the official source, we are not the official source; there's no obligation whatsoever to actually follow the actual name. As such, the moderators and trusted editors that are part of the unofficial, fandom, community are not bound by the official source.

You will need more than a statement like "it's the official/correct name" to make such a change.

If you want to make a change that will be accepted, you'll require someone higher up to accept it; that is, someone without an account will not be able to change it [I'm not saying it's bad to not make an account].

I'm not sure how far do the moderators take in the opinion of the community; if you can convince the majority of the community that uses this wikia that "Mash" would be correct, they may also change it. You may also try to convince the higher-ups directly about it. [Of course, "not following the official source" would be done within limits. Make use of common sense on my statements, as taken to the extreme it would ruin the wikia.] Free Willey, they more or less do know it. However, it's just how their alphabet goes.

There's no way to just write your name as "Josh", as, every letter in the japanese alphabet except for "N"  and the lone vowels "A" "E" "I" "O" "U" are together; something like John should be closer to what they'd commonly see. Otherwise, every syllabe ends in a vowel.

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