Thread:Cyberweasel89/@comment-2089817-20200227050534/@comment-2089817-20200304044513

Sorry for the late response. On some level, I understand their stance, and part of it is a stance I've adopted too. Which is to say that it does depend on the author's portrayal. Wikis like this which are meant to be geared toward canon material should be about documentation of the work as plainly as possible as the writer intended, not imposing self-interpretations, but the biggest problem comes with a lack of communication and the lack of reliable and properly translated material. You're right though, if three other sources of information all agree with one viewpoint and this place is the only holdout, then it definitely is suspect. That being said, as a journalist, I'm sure you can appreciate that it's also very plausible for those three databases to be reporting it incorrectly. A lot of these places, MyAnimeList and TV Tropes in particular, are not exactly the most strict when it comes to maintaining source credibility. Wikipedia, also, may cite references but you never can really tell if those sources are reliable unless you check them. To use stats jargon, they might be really precise but their accuracy might be way off the mark, and I'm sure you're aiming more for accuracy.

Not that I'm siding with this community, I've long since been disappointed with the lack of standards here and the complete absence of citations on many important pages. I hate reading something here and then having to find second-rate translations to even see if any of it is true or horribly paraphrased. But in my way of partially defending them, I merely mean to say that I'm sure it can't be that simply black and white either. Though I suppose that's the point of your research on the subject, to find out what's really going on there.

In terms of saying it's a hot button issue, I might have oversold that a bit. I've seen Facebook comment sections on Rakudai Kishi-associated pages and the occasional reddit thread pop up where people argue about it, so it made me believe it's pretty widely debated in this community.