User talk:Zachary1969

Re: Interview with Tite Kubo
Hi there. So, Kubo's Klub Outside questions and answers are increasingly becoming known throughout the fanbase now that people in the West have managed to access it through VPNs and such, and multiple people have either told us to implement his answers or tried adding info from it outright without discussion (I appreciate you asking first quite a lot, believe me).

Here's the thing: Klub Outside is and would be unique as far as reference sources go for the wiki - unlike the anime and manga where there's numerous official and unofficial sites/domains for anyone to view them in official English translations, the vast majority of people can't just pull a Klub question/answer set up on a website and confirm that the information/statement it's tagged with on the wiki is accurate, not only because of that exclusivity but because as of right now, there are no proper translations of the material. Everything people are going off of is either translated by Google Translate (and once you see the insane word salad of THOSE translations you'll know why we're not using them) or, potentially in this case since it seems more coherent, amateur translators who, while clearly passionate and interested, we can't verify the quality and accuracy of like we can our "in-house" translators on the Discord server, who've been doing their best to crack these too.

Whenever we do get proper translations of these answers, and I promise that we're working on that because there really is some interesting stuff here, we're then going to have to figure out a way to cite those answers in references in a way that doesn't potentially break the law by linking to an off-site translation of what's meant to be exclusively Japanese content (same reason we're not uploading any of Kubo's Klub-exclusive art and sketches, cool as they are), meaning that we're basically going to be relying on the wiki's long-standing reputation of trustworthiness and factual referencing guidelines for people to take us at our word given the aforementioned independent confirmation restrictions, and that's gonna be its own set of hurdles given how Japan's cracked down on manga scanlations and the like over the last couple years.

So, in short, we will get this all added to the wiki, but it won't be for a while yet due to a couple major hurdles and we want it to be as accurate and fair use as possible. Sorry for the wall of text, I just wanted to cover all my bases here. But thanks for reaching out!--Xilinoc (talk) 08:59, 24 September 2021 (UTC)