I think a whole override is bad, because that file is also used to other things, which means if you have an old translation with a newer version of the game (one that made changes to that file) your game will have the old contents.
I guess this is the reason Yang implemented the “mixintype”, where you can override just a part of the file, in this case, just the name list.
http://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/a17-3008-overrides-in-mixintos/23023/3