Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31599868-20191009002402/@comment-14908162-20191020204411

My thoughts are a bit all over the place right now, so I apologize if the next few paragraphs are jumbled. Feel free to ask questions and I'll clarify.

Over the past few days I've thought about this a lot and I also think we should keep the translations. I am almost certain they're acting out of spite, and I don't really want to follow someone's wishes if they're only made out of spite. I don't really have anything further to add to the discussion except maybe this link where she gave explicit permission to us ("various wikia's") to use her translations, and as Damesukekun said good faith should legally allow us to still use the translations.

71.121.174.79 is also right that the poll doesn't represent the whole fandom, as it doesn't even represent our daily visitors (we average about 27K visitors a day as of right now). Furthermore, most people only voted on the first poll, so even when only looking at the people who bothered to read the thread the last poll isn't representative. The results of the first poll were clearly in favour of keeping the translations, and the "No" option in the last poll is also slowly getting more votes (honestly I'm pretty sure if I were to make an announcement again that poll would get No as the largest answer pretty fast), I think it's fair to say the community wants us to keep the translations.

I've already made a template with a notice for the removed translations, it is not hard to make one that explains the reason why the translation stays up against the author's wishes. Adding such a template to a page is also way easier than removing all of HnY's translations, since it can easily be done using a bot. This would save us a lot of work.

Lastly, I want to apologize. This hassle dragged on way longer than necesssary partly (if not mostly) due to my indecisiveness on the issue. I should have made up my mind earlier. I'll do my best to be more decisive if something like this occurs again.