Talk:Alana Kepkep

Screenshot
I wanted to change the screenshot of the boss but it doesn't work :s --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Vince2doom.


 * It did work. :) The page displaying the old image is a cache problem. --84-175 (talk) 06:59, 15 April 2007 (EDT)

Name
Oh man that's an unfortunate name... - B e X   06:08, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

why was the name changed?


 * Because in Tagalog (Filipino language) the vagina is sometimes referred to as pekpek. Also, coincidentally, Alana (wala na - often pronounced as alana) means "there's no more". ILikeKiwis 19:11, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * HAHAHA, omg. you have to be kidding 75.61.32.166 17:53, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * No lies here, although kids are usually the only ones who use pekpek, it's not as vulgar as some other names. Also, it's kind of disturbing how Edibo kind of sounds like edible and I literally laughed out loud when I saw Alana Pekpek. ILikeKiwis 05:59, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * wow, that has me laughing so hard my sides hurt!!
 * omg, i couldn't stop laughing at the name change for ages. but the reason to change the name does make sense--Swept Into Night 10:21, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Kæp in Danish means club or twig, and can be referring to the male reproductive organ. GG ANET! :P Paddymew 22:06, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but that isn't kep. Arcdash 14:39, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * LOL, so 'Alana Kepkep' would translate into 'there's no more vagina'? I bursted out laughing, at work. Definitely the best Trivia I've seen in this wiki. --Sensei 19:21, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Wow..... bad reason for a name change
So a name change is in order every time a name is found to mean something vulgar/obscene in a language only a few thousand people speak? The primary language of Guild Wars is English and it should stay that way. Other languages can be ignored for all I care. Pretty soon we'll be renaming things because they mean something offensive in an obscure slang context that 99.999% of people haven't heard of and don't care about.

I don't even think the offensive reference was intentional when Anet made that name either.
 * You have to be tolerant to everyone I suppose. PossessedLinebeck 15:54, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Big deal, they changed the name. It just makes it funnier, not like changing it hurt anyone. 122.104.161.96 05:13, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * NPA, n00b.
 * Seriously, how would you like it if you made a character with a name that's perfectly fine in English, but translates to something obscene in another language and you get banned for it or received a character deletion?
 * WTB petty intolerance, 75k Krelus Derian 05:12, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

well if anyone thinks the change was stupid just type in alana pekpek whenever you search for this boss, it redirects to this page anyhow. I could care less if they changed it but I think this name is cooler sounding anyhow--Justice 18:31, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

i shouldn't be surprised anymore at how many xenophobes play a global online fantasy game featuring dozens of races and different kinds of characters.

note how the vaguely ignorant OP is also the only one who doesn't even seem to sign at all. more than "a few thousand" people speak tagalog; at least half the filipinos i know in the US speak it fluently so i'd imagine there are probably a million speakers of it in the US alone. wikipedia says there are at least 49 million speakers in the philippines. it's hardly "obscure," and it's apparently only you, not "people," who "haven't heard of and don't care about" it. they obviously changed it because more than one person noticed and said something. they might have risked alienating and losing customers if they didn't make an extremely simple adjustment. how is that a "bad reason" unless you simply irrationally dislike people who speak other languages?68.81.213.14 19:13, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * It's a valid reason for changing even if there's just a few thousand tagalog-speaking GW players in the world, as GW is not so popular here in the Philippines. But us pinoys always get a good laugh at the original last name and wonder if there was a pinoy programmer who let that slip as an inside joke. I've always thought that Regina (who has Filipino ancestry) has something to do with the change, as the update happened just a few months of her becoming ANET's CM. Any chance Regina can confirm or deny this? ;) Anyways, pinoys were saddened abt this change but good laughs apparently have an end. -Sef326 15:09, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

The old name
I think the pekpek's since there are a few of them were user submitted names during that name that boss contest, so it may have been intentional.