Strike Witches:guidelines

The purpose of this page is to lay down the guidelines by which the editors and translators will fulfill their respective roles for this project. Guidelines are required to create a consistent reading format throughout all the novels, to ensure the best Strike Witches experience for readers.

This page will be updated to include all terms, formats notes and other points for this project, it should always reflect the joint agreement of all parties.

This does not mean the Translators will have to take it upon themselves to apply the guidelines. This guide will mainly affect Editors, and we stress to Translators not to take it upon themselves to change their habits or preferences in any way that will hamper their progress.

At the same time, these are guidelines, not rules carved in stone, and no one will be crucified for failing to follow them. The idea of these guidelines is that all the work will eventually converge on them after enough editing.

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Translation

Foreign words

Proper nouns/ranks in other languages will be used where appropriate when characters would logically be speaking in their own language. Ranks will be kept in their respective languages until the entire squadron meets up and starts speaking in Britannian. In the prologue, appropriate terms for the various forces have been used for diversity, but starting from Chapter 1, translated terms will be used. Afterwards, everyone starts speaking Britannian, making the issue moot.

Characters

Character info
Book	Character	Affiliation	Rank	Abbr	Equiv.Rank (Britannian Air Force)	Abbr (Brit.)	Notes
	Häkkinen	Suomen Ilmavoimat	Kapteeni	Kapt.	Flight Lieutenant	F/L	Later promoted to Squadron Leader
	Ahonen, Mika	Suomen Ilmavoimat	Kapteeni	Kapt.
	Leivonen, Elma	Suomen Ilmavoimat	Luutnantti	Ltn.	Flying Officer	F/O
	Anabuki, Tomoko	Fuso Imperial Army Air Service	Shou-i	---	Pilot Officer	P/O	Later promoted to Flying Officer
	Beurling, Elizabeth F.	Britannian Air Force	Pilot Officer	P/O
	O'Hare, Katharine	US Naval Aviation	Ensign	Ens.
	Hartmann, Ursula	Karlsländer Luftwaffe	Feldwebel	---	Flight Sergeant	F/S
	Sakomizu, Haruka	Fuso Imperial Navy	Ittou Hikou Heisou	Ichi-hisou
1	BAF Commandant	Britannian Air Force	Group Captain	G/C	Group Captain	G/C
	USN Captain	US Navy	Captain	Capt.
	USN ACO	US Naval Aviation	Commander	Cdr.	Wing Commander	W/C
	Washizumi	Fuso Imperial Army Air Service	Chuu-sa	---
	Sakuma	Fuso Imperial Army	Chuu-sa	---
	Katoh, Takeko	Fuso Imperial Army Air Service	Shou-i	---	Pilot Officer	P/O
2	Itokawa, Mamoru	Nakajima Striker Company	Gishi	---	Engineer	---
	Rudel, Hannah	Karlsländer Luftwaffe Schlachtgeschwader 2, 10 Staffel	Hauptmann	---	Flight Lieutenant	F/L
	Adelheid	Karlsländer Luftwaffe Schlachtgeschwader 2, 10 Staffel	Oberleutnant	---	Flying Officer	F/O
3	Cenni, Giuseppina	Fourth Joint Air Force No.2 Group	Maresciallo	---	Warrant Officer	WO	AKA "The Non-Commissioned General"

Full list of Strike Witches

Name	Service	Service (English)	Affiliation
BADER, Dolores	Britannian Air Force	Britannian Air Force	Britannia
BEURLING, Elizabeth F.
BISHOP, Lynette
BISHOP, Minnie
MALAN, Adolpha
SHADE, Patricia
MILES, ?	Britannian Royal Army	Britannian Royal Army
BISHOP, Wilma	Royal Farawayland Air Force	Royal Farawayland Air Force
ANABUKI, Tomoko	Fusou Koukoku Rikugun	Fuso Imperial Army	Fuso Empire
INAGAKI, Mami
KATOH, Takeko
KATOU, Keiko
KUROE, Ayaka
NAKAJIMA, Hayate
NAKAJIMA, Kotaka
NAKAJIMA, Nishiki
OBAYASHI, Teruko
SANO, Honoka
SASAUCHI, Satoko
SUMI, Chie
SUWA, Amaki
SUWA, Goshiki
SUWA, Masuzu
HONDA, ?	Fusou Koukoku Kaigun	Fuso Imperial Navy
MIYAFUJI, Yoshika
NISHIZAWA, Yoshiko
NISHIZAWA, ?
OHTA, ?
SAKAMOTO, Mio
SAKOMIZU, Haruka
SHINDOU, Mie
TAKEI, Junko
WAKAMOTO, Tetsuko
YOKOKAWA, Kazumi
?, Tomoko
ADELHEID,	Karlsländer Luftwaffe	Karlander Air Force	Karlsland
BÄR, Heinrike
BARKHORN, Gertrud
BOELCKE, Oswalda
GALLAND, Adolfine
HARTMANN, Erica
HARTMANN, Ursula
IMMELMANN, Maxi
KRUPINSKI, Waltrud
LANGER, Karla-Heinrike
LENNARTZ, Helma
LOSIGKEIT, Friederike
MARSEILLE, Hanna-Justina
MÖLDERS, Vera
MULLER, Rudolfine
NOWOTNY, Waltraud
POTTGEN, Liesa
RALL, Gundula
ROßMANN, ?
RUDEL, Hannah U.
SACHSENBER, Rike
SCHNAUFER, Heidemarie W.
SCHRÖER, Wendeline
TONNE, Wulfhilda
WILCKE, Minna-Dietlinde
?, Matilda
PORSCHE, Friederike	Karlsländer Heer	Karlander Army
?, Charlotte
LITVYAK, Sanya V.	Voyska Protivovozdushnaya Oborona Orossii	Orussian Air Defence Forces	Orussian Empire
POKRYSHKIN, Alexandra I.
RASKOVA, Marisha
SHLOPOV, Alyona V.
SAFONOV, Bronislava F.	Aviatsiya Voenno-Morskogo Flota Orossii	Orussian Naval Aviation
BONET, Giovanna	Sovrana Aeronatica Romagniana	Romagnan Air Force	Principality of Romagna
CENNI, Giuseppina
LUCCHINI, Francesca
MARTINOLI, Teresa
RUSPOLI, Carla
TARANTOLA, Enrica
TORCHIO, Luisa
CLOSTERMANN, Perrine H.	Forces Galliaises Libres	Free Gallian Forces	Republic of Gallia
ACCART, Jeanne	Armée de l'Air Galliaise	Gallian Air Force
GAUTHIER, Gabi
LE GLOAN, Pierrette
LEMARE, Georgette
AHONEN, Mika	Suomen Ilmavoimat	Suomish Air Force	Suomus
JUUTILAINEN, Eila Ilmatar
KATAJAINEN, Nikka Edvardine
LEIVONEN, Elma
LYLY, Erika
WIND, Hanna
ANDERSON, Clarissa	Liberian Army	Liberian Army	United States of Liberion
PREDDY, Jeana
STRAIT, Donna
WELCH, Berta
YEAGER, Charlotte E.
O'HARE, Katharine	Liberian Navy	Liberian Navy
?, Beth
?, Ingrid
?, Linda
?, Mary
?, Rita
?, Sally
?, Vivian

Countries

Countries
Country	Full name	Adjective	Language	Nationality
Suomus		Suomish	Suomish	Suomish
Fuso	Fuso Empire	Fuso	Fusogo	Fusojin
Karlsland	Imperial Karlsland	Karlsländer	Karlslaendisch	Karlsländer
Britannia	Britannian Commonwealth	Britannian	Britannian	Britannian
Liberion	United States of Liberion	Liberian	Britannian	Liberian
Romagna	Principality of Romagna			Romagnan
Hispania
Gallia		Gallic	Gael	Gallian
Orussia	Orussian Empire
Venezia	Principality of Venezia
Ostmark
Baltland
Neuroi

Formatting

Punctuation

British style punctuation and quotation marks are to be used. This means that the position of commas and periods will follow logic, and not always end up inside quotation marks. Besides this, standard American English will be used throughout.

Speech quotation marks will use double quotation marks "...".

The preferred order for a paired ! and ? is '!?'.