User talk:ThisIsLiz

Moving Names to Data:Translations pages

Hello! I noticed that you've been carrying names and translations from the Names template on pages and moving them over to Data:Translations pages. This is actually something we want to avoid, and is one of the reasons we adopted the Data pages in the first place. Data pages are meant to be held to a higher standard than the Names template, because they're on their own pages dedicated to just storing that information. Because they weren't on any separate pages before, it was much harder to control and check for the quality of the names and translations, and unfortunately many fan-made and unofficial names have made their way into those sections. They cannot be considered reliable for this reason, and so they shouldn't be carried into Data pages unless they happen to have a citation verifying them.
I'm very sorry for having to undo the work you've done to collect and add those to the Data pages, but hopefully I can save you time by telling you about it now. I'll look into updating the Guidelines to better explain the history and rationale of the decision to change templates. TriforceTony (talk) 17:09, 15 June 2023 (UTC)