Thread:Ultrasonic9000/@comment-4166811-20190120180225/@comment-4166811-20190126153038

The standard pirate enemies all consistently have 海賊 (Kaizoku) in their names.

The Ghost Pirate boss is ゴーストパイレート (all the boss names are entirely katakana).

In the absence of an official English name, I think going with Kaizoku would be best. A lot of enemy names in other games are based on Japanese onomatopoeia, portmanteu, abbreviations and wordplay that can't be translated directly, so it's best to have a consistent approach in place.

But when it's an existing English word transcribed into katakana, then obviously we'd use the English source word (Sonic instead of Sonikku, for example).

The Wiki has been inconsistent with enemy names. Mecha Hiyoko and Taraban are good examples of using Japanese names, but the Tails Adventure page has unofficially translated versions of most enemy names (however the mouse robot is still "Nezu", short for nezumi - the Japanese word for mouse/rat).

I think we should stick to just relaying the facts as they are. Trying to come up with our own translated versions of enemy names puts us in the role of localizers - which is Sega's job.