Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26450267-20180307001812/@comment-26450267-20180307235449

I quite honestly think that this originally happened due to what I mentioned earlier, which is suboptimal choice in the original wording. Not to be disrespectful by any means, but it is very common to see this when someone who doesnt speak a language tries to make a term or name based on it. Of course the original signs translate to Shuvi, but lets be honest, it is more than blatantly obvious that it was intended to try to emulate the German S-C-H-W sound. The whole Ex-Machina have a tendency to use German after all, and there isnt even a German word that starts with S-H. I am certain that if our dear author could change it retroactively, to better reflect his intentions for the name, he would do that. Thats why all the official tranlations have adapted to that after all.

Like I said before this was only meant to ask why it wasnt changed, not to start an argument because I thought by now it was more than obvious what the correct naming is. So, I dont really understand that "convenience" part of the argument, aside from that maybe that it can be tedious to replace the name (but honestly, there are easy scripts for that). I guess it is either of two things that the other person above mentioned; The admins are either lazy or too thick-headed. Not something that I am necessarily upset about it personally, but I feel like the responsibility of a wiki is sort of missed here. The only reason I noticed this here in first place was because I admin for a relatively large community of another frachnise, and we had a discussion on the NGNL movie. Someone brought up Schwi as Shuvi, and I hadnt seen that old spelling in a while, and they said the wiki still spelled it that way. I was surprised by that, is all. Had to explain that the wikis are by no means official websites and still make mistakes at times, no matter how well run they are.

So yeah, I dont necessarily expect a response from any admins owning up to be either lazy or thick headed, thats not something we humans like to do in general, so thats perfectly okay, but I also hope that if theres a response, it wont be some cheap justification for not changing it, since, lets be honest, the matter is one sided enough to not have to start a fight over it. Kind of like flat-earther and anti-vaxxer debates.