Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-14908162-20191016083021/@comment-71.121.174.79-20191020194903

This poll doesn't have enough participants to accurately represent the entire fandom, which is now reliant on the Wiki's decision. I think it's important to keep in mind that the results would be much different if this poll was conducted on a wider scale, with a more accurate ratio or English-speaking monolinguals and people who are fluent in both Japanese and English.

There are already several people frantically trying to create backups of her translations before they're wiped off of the face of the internet--me included. But no matter what smallfries like me do, I worry that it would make little difference if this Wiki, the face of the fandom, doesn't attempt to preserve them.

I beg you to reconsider the decision to remove her translations. Not everyone trying to archive them will show the same level of respect and dilligence that this Wiki does--and I'm fairly certain that HnY has no legal basis to revoke access to something that was previously free-use (and so largely widespread). I realize that, of course, it's more an issue of respect than legality, but HnY has betrayed public trust. Violating her wishes leaves a sour taste in my mouth, but at a certain point, it becomes bigger than oneself.

If Naoko Takeuchi were to suddenly demand that all copies of Sailor Moon that were sold be destroyed, people would simply not comply. In fact, there would be a renewed effort to circulate her work. Book-burning is still book-burning, even at the author's request. Even digitally. HnY and TBC's influence is immersurable, and erasing their work from public records is unthinkable. I'd go as far as to say a good chunk of the content on this website comes from them.

Please, please don't make the fans take it into their own hands. This is a good archive. I don't want to spend the forseeable future trying to create my own when you could just... not put everyone through this.

I'm sorry that this message is emotional, and I hope it doesn't come off as malicious. I just genuinely, sincerely love Vocaloid and the Vocaloid community. It's changed my life. And I can't stand the thought of these songs being lost to time.