Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-35301431-20130822203251/@comment-5532114-20130826012829

No, don't do that. It would be even worse.

You have no idea how many issues that caused before considering this is a quite in a dissenter and conflictive fandom >.>

But the whole fandom uses the word "character" to refer to them. The only place calling them "mascots" is this wikia. No one aside of Angel would mind the change.

''>And as I said, until recent months no one argueed, so "mascot" got used everywhere. ''

I was always bothered by it. You using that on Azuki and Matcha just reminded me how much I hate it. Do you remember when you split the Vocaloid pages and were trying to name the base page "mascot"? Yeah, I wasn't the only one who opposed o that.

>We can remove it over time at a easy casual pace if anyone wants to find better words, but a vote would force it off now resulting in a LOT of work for one or two editors and its not fair on those even if they want to do it.

I could do it, want to to it, it's not a problem for me at all.

>Theres no overall official word for the vocaloids illustrated avatars and until there is we have no reason to narrow our vocabulary down to a few select words.

I don't think you understand. But I guess you never read my wall of texts about this. So just to summarize. First off all, there is "official word" when companies call their Vocaloids "characters" and not anything else.

Secondly, mascot is not a word that you can swap for character, because none of the Vocaloids are mascots for anything. You can only think, personally, that in a metaphorical sense they are, and colloquially call them that, but the fact of the matter is that they are not. For something to be a mascot, it needs to be officially recognized and adapted by someone/company/team/whatever. None of the Vocaloids are that. So that leaves articles with your personal interpretation of what they are. Which is wrong.