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== anon script verification ==

Dear Alpaca,

Please find below a link to chapter 22, translated by an anonymous user.
[http://pastebin.com/Z94kTa6U Shield Hero chp.22]

I would appreciate if you can verify it and whether you wish to use it or have plans to translate the chapter yourself. 

As i'm aware of this script, i will prevent any publishing of chapter 22 until i hear your reply on this matter.

Best Regards,
Onizuka-GTO 21:25, 31 August 2014 (CDT)


=== Registration of Chapter 22 ===

Dear Alpaca,

In accordance to the "first come, first serve" guidelines, with you as the registered translator for this chapter, this decision is entirely up to you and i will prioritise any actions in regards to this chapter.

Best Regards,

Onizuka-GTO 23:12, 31 August 2014 (CDT)

=== Chapter 24 ===

Dear Alpaca, 

Once again, an existence of an anonymous script has been brought to my attention:
[http://pastebin.com/5UHmTnKR Vol.2.Chp.24]

This is simply a notification and there is no need to reply.

Once again, this is at your discretion as the registered translator to do what you wish with this.

Regards,

Onizuka-GTO 09:01, 5 September 2014 (CDT)


Hi, I did the anonymous translations for chapters 22-24.  Shall we work together?  I feel like it's a waste of your time to redo those chapters but if you don't feel that the translations are up to par then go ahead.  I don't see 25 as being registered by anyone so I might take it (though I'm already almost finished).  Dropping it anonymously on /a/ is what I had originally planned. However, due the length of the series it might be in everyone's best interests to collaborate our efforts.

Hi, sorry for the late reply, I just got back home. As I attempted to contact you earlier, it would be to our best interests if you were to join us. As for the chapters, I had not read the ones on pastebin since I already read the raws to know what's up. If you would like, just register and we can just add you to the translator list to start off with. - [[User:Alpaca|Alpaca]] ([[User talk:Alpaca#top|talk]]) 21:29, 5 September 2014 (CDT)

Seriously this series is popular. I found these translations on pastabin. The names are off but the translations seems okay. It's chapters 25-29.--[[User:Tasear|Tasear]] ([[User talk:Tasear|talk]]) 23:50, 8 September 2014 (CDT)
http://pastebin.com/u/Bakahou

Well, again, I need to get into contact with the said translator of those pastebin files (I'm too lazy + busy to check the quality or what not) before we add the author or the chapters. That's just kinda my policy, I don't like going around with 'kudos to anon' or 100% google translated (I've read 30 volumes of LMS of that and I don't think anyone here want to experience that. Not that I'm saying those files are google translated, I didn't check them). So, if you can contact them and tell them to throw me a message that will help us, like A LOT, since we have 370+ chapters being updated every single day. - [[User:Alpaca|Alpaca]] ([[User talk:Alpaca#top|talk]]) 00:01, 9 September 2014 (CDT)

I have just finished reading the chapters. So the chapters defiantly aren't Google translated. In fact you can tell with the translator starts to get tried even without his/her side comments.  The chapters do need some simple edits but overall the quality looks really good.  I traced the chapters all the way back to an Anon from 4chan. Looks like he/she is aware of Baka Tsuki as the skipped translating 27. Anon has translated 25,26,28,29 and 30. --[[User:Tasear|Tasear]] ([[User talk:Tasear|talk]]) 01:37, 9 September 2014 (CDT)

Er, no.  They are pretty good but the anon said they were machine translated (when I asked him and also when he initially posted the first chapter).  He's been posting pretty regularly so you can ask him yourself if you don't believe me.

Are we talking about the same translator. The one I'm talking about isn't an anon.
=== Anon chapters ===

Dear alpaca,

The existence of the Machine Translated chapters above and to include them in this project will be your decision, i have no preferences. 
However be aware that all Machine Translated chapters will have to follow the: 
[[Baka-Tsuki:Machine_Translation_Guidelines|Baka-Tsuki Machine Translation Guidelines (2014)]] 

Which will require attention of a verifying Baka-Tsuki senior translator to approve before it can be published on Baka-Tsuki and marked with the extension "-MTL". Additionally that any approved Machine Translated script can be overwritten by a human translator without warning at any later date.

Regards,

Onizuka-GTO 02:38, 10 September 2014 (CDT)



Since they are machine translated then I have no intention of including them in the project. - [[User:Alpaca|Alpaca]] ([[User talk:Alpaca#top|talk]]) 21:02, 10 September 2014 (CDT)

To call them machine-translated is a bit simplistic though; I'd call them machine aided. It's not like they're just a direct output from google translate or anything. It's certainly possible that there are nuances missed (and for confusing passages there's usually a second opinion gained from more skilled people) but at least it's normally quite close, and the English is good/grammatical. [[User:Cruxador|Cruxador]] ([[User talk:Cruxador|talk]]) 05:28, 18 September 2014 (CDT)