Board Thread:Wiki Management/@comment-27557697-20150131093230

This whole vote was decided because of 1 thing: I've noticed that we are basing a lot of names off of what google translate tells us. Now this wouldn't be a bad thing if google translate wasn't so terrible at translations. Don't believe me? Let's take an example:

Put peashooter into google translate and turn it into chinese. Now take the chinese translation you get and turn that back into english. What you get back is "toy gun".

Peashooter is obviously not named toy gun. Are we saying that Google translate should make the almighty decisions of what we name chinese plants that we do not know the real name of? Should we rename any instances of peashooter to toy gun? I believe not.

I feel that instead of having Google trasnlate make the almighty decisions, we can have a special discussion thread where people can vote on conjectural names. Names that flow easy. Names that make sense until we otherwise know a more appropiate name (Such as pepper pult being carried over to an international version of a game).

Should we use conjectural names? Or should we keep using google translate to make the final decision?

Oppose if you feel that we should use google translate.

Vote neutral if you have a different suggestion than the one listed above and state what the alternative is.

Support if you feel that the wiki should vote on conjectural names.

 