Talk:Retia Adolf

Please let us using a translation engine because I cannot speak English well.

AliceSoft spell her name "Lertih Adolf". (See http://blog.alicesoft.com/archives/3259519.html)

How is the procedure to modify the page title?

'Retia Adolf' is how her name is spelled by the English translator, in the English patch. That is why her name is set up that way on the wiki.

Actual English Name
There are currently 3 ways of writing レーティア・アドルフ in English: Retia Adolf, Reltih Adolf and Lertih Adolf. Only "Adolf" stay the same and thus isn't subject to this "conflict".

Since the days of the old partial english translation, her name was "Retia". The merits of that name are that it is the most accurate according to proper romanization(rētia) and that it is the name known to everyone who played the game in English which is everyone that doesn't know Japanese but played the game.

The merits of "Lertih" is that it was present in one of Alicesoft's blog which give it some credibility. However, no where in that blog article is the word "Lertih" even mentioned once. It is safe to assume that this translation was made by the figurine maker which is a third party and thus not-canon.

The "Reltih" name is in the same situation. I do not think that interpreting the concept behind a name without an actual canon source is how a wiki should work. Much less when the decision to rename a major heroine was done by one individual without the consultation of the rest of the community. To my knowledge, no where has TADA said that the intent behind her name was to be "Hitler" backward; thus this interpretation is purely headcanon.

There is also the matter that Alicesoft isn't reputed for its quality English naming(referencing to カラー being both "color" and "kalar" in official publications).

I would like to gather the opinions of others on this subject and hopefuly resolve this once and for all.

I think it's should be obvious, but I think we should revert the name to Retia as it is what was used for the past decade, will be used by anyone playing the game and is the proper romanization. Anyone playing the game in Japanese and wanting to write the name in english, will do so from レーティア which would give Rētia. Without knowing about decade old figurine, the names "Reltih" and "Lertih" would not come up in their mind. I know that Rētia can also be Reitia instead of Retia. However I don't think there has been a serious party wanting Reitia as the name.