Forum:Discussion regarding transcripts

I'd like to open a discussion regarding our transcripts, and how we write them. Earlier this evening, an edit war broke out on the transcript for "Iron Lady" regarding the italicising of a word in the article. While yours truly and one other user felt it was necessary to italicise the word to indicate that Sandman emphasises the word, another user felt that we should leave it, and said that the rule for all transcripts is that we copy verbatim from the subtitles instead. This has happened on other transcripts, as well.

My question for this forum is: should our transcripts be going on the subtitles alone, or on audio from the game?

I think we should be going on the audio, as the subtitles can be wrong, and occasionally they are wrong. For example, again in "Iron Lady" (sorry for using that again, but it's the best example I can think of), Grinch says The tower's not gonna take much more than that!. However, the subtitle for that line says The tower's not gonna take much more that! - notice that they omit the word "than". So, do we go on the audio, since it's the correct line, or do we go on the incorrect subtitles, since we're apparently meant to be copying them word for word?

You see? At times, copying verbatim from the subtitles simply isn't practical, as the subtitles are often blatantly wrong. This is why we should be trusting the audio instead - the audio is always correct.

I'd like to hear some input from both sides here, and from the rest of the community as well. Hopefully, we can reach some sort of clarification regarding the transcripts. Sgt. S.S. 20:52, January 13, 2012 (UTC)