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hahaha, awesome → Image:Wikipe-tan visual novel.png. (horray for more free-use images!) -- Ned Scott 07:16, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
More Wikipe-tan stuff (not exactly project related, but hey, she is our mascot :) ) -- Ned Scott 04:02, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
From Wikipedia:Village pump (news)#Wikipe-tan makes a cameo appearance in UK magazine Games TM
I translated the Spanish on that image. (^_^) ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihon jo e 21:56, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
One of the Wikipe-tan images has been picked as the picture of the day for October 2 :-). See Wikipedia talk:Wikipe-tan#POTD -- GunnarRene 10:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Probably obvious by our time-stamps, but she's now live on the
Main Page as today's
featured picture. (Anyone notice that Main Page breaks
WP:NC when it capitalizes Page? ;) ) --
Ned Scott 04:06, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Dark Shikari Bot was approved for a trial. I just ran it on all Anime/manga stubs, anime/manga character stubs, and hentai stubs. It took about an hour, but every one is now tagged. Are there any other categories I should check through and tag? — Dark Shikari talk/ contribs 16:00, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Not that there were really any important topics or anything vital being discussed that were archived, but shouldn't we wait a bit more than 3 and a half days for some of these discussions? I don't think the talk page is that active for it to be a problem to at least wait a week on some stuff, even if it's nothing more than displaying a good idea such as logic behind a page merge, etc. Again, not really a problem, but I thought I would bring it up. -- Ned Scott 04:01, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Isn't it contrary to Wikipedia naming conventions and just simply weird to title this page WikiProject Anime and manga? We should move it to WikiProject anime and manga (no capital letters) already. Same with all related templates etc. Unless there's some policy/guideline I'm missing? -- Ynhockey ( Talk) 09:47, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
This particular policy does not apply just to the article namespace. WP:NC makes it clear that the reason for the non-capitalization of the 2nd word and onwards is technical, therefore it applies to all namespaces. Capitalizing all the words also works (WikiProject Anime And Manga), however, capitalizing and (And) is unconventional. It would be logical to move the page to WikiProject Anime and Manga (according to English grammar rules), but it would violate WP:NC. But in any case, anything is better than WikiProject Anime and manga. I mean, why is anime capitalized and manga not? -- Ynhockey ( Talk) 13:02, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering. Does WPA&M do any collaborations? I didn't notice a "Collaboration of the specified-timeframe" anywhere. -- Kitch 12:03, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Building on the work by Ned Scott and User:Squilibob, I have improved the optional show/hide parameter on the anime and manga portions of the Animanga infobox. This option allows you to compress long lists of publishers and networks by putting the foreign language version information into a dropdown list. (See Bleach (manga) and Rurouni Kenshin for examples.) The manga field is "publisher_other=", the anime field "network_other=". (The manga field was previously "translated_publisher=", so if you've been using the old one, it will need changed.)
The feature was previously present, but for some reason it would generate 5pt text within the hidden list, which was pretty much unreadable. It's now legible, and I have it confirmed as operating properly for (almost) everyone. Feel free to use it! -- tjstrf 02:23, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I believe the English publishers must be included. This is enwiki and the English language edition is arguably equally or perhaps more important to our encyclopedic usefulness than even the original publisher. We are a reference source for those who read English. The Japanese publishers should also be included, as they are the original. All others should be hidden. -- tjstrf 22:34, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Could you add the show/hide parameter to studio and network in Template:Infobox Anime episode. Also, it could use previous and next fields to link between episodes. - Peregrinefisher 18:34, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
If not can someone start one?-- 201 21:37, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Wikiprojects are useful when there is plenty of articles to coordinate them. If there are few articles wikiprojects are useless.-- 201 19:57, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, there are Simpsons, Digimon and Pokemon wikiprojects. How do you explain that. Remember: Dragonball has as many or more episodes, at least twice as many characters and, since it was published in comics and animation, you'd have to multiply that by two.
The organization is kind of messy. There are way too many character lists. Some episode synopsis are missing and if they are done we'd have to coordinate them with comic synopsis, since the storyes tend to be line by line the same.-- 201 06:39, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Now, it may be useful to investigate the creation of various task forces, similar to what WikiProject Military history has done. I could see a Dragon Ball task force. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihon jo e 15:59, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I don't know anything about Dragonball or its articles, but it looks like there are quite a few. There's a Sailor Moon WikiProject, which is the same level of narrow focus; we cover several dozen articles, and it's working beautifully. -- Masamage 21:41, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Wow, I didn't get what Ned said, my head still hurts. Isn't there a "from A to B" amount of pages, there is need for a task force; more than B amount of pages, a wikiproject is needed" or "Amount of pages > B, wikiproject; amount of pages =< B, task force" rule?
I think Dragonball is bigger than Sailor Moon (in some countries DB was even bigger than pokemon), NEVERTHELESS they should get the same treatement either both task force or both wikiproject. Either sound fine to me. whatever you choose would be ok.-- 201 05:28, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, you're the expert. Lead the way, haha.-- 201 19:02, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
It's supposed to go at the top right of the wikiproject page (only the main).-- 201 20:03, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Yes, now that you said so, I do find it unecessarely big. I hope that can be fixed the way you said. Most infoboxes I know are 250px wide. In this case, I don't know I'd say from 250 to 200px. What do you think?-- 201 00:29, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I don't think WikiProjects need an info box. ···
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Well, some use it and is relatively new. The size, I agree, is too big. I don't know if they are part of a guide line or against one.-- 201 06:44, 5 October 2006 (UTC) WP:WPUN, WP:FILM, WP:WINE and WP:BEER are some of the finest examples.-- 201 07:02, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Over at WikiProject Sailor Moon, we're trying to make some plot-description pages, but are having a hard time knowing what to call the articles.
Here's the problem. The same five plot arcs exist in the anime and manga, but are given different names. The manga came first, which would seem to suggest that we should use those. However, everything other than the manga used the same names as the anime, including the musicals, movies, video games, and English-language manga. Running a Google search for "Sailor Moon S" (the anime arc name) gets 230,000 hits, while running a search for "Sailor Moon Infinity" gets 420, some of which are about different things.
What do you all think? -- Masamage 17:31, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I have no idea how to do this, so could someone please make a category for yuri and shoujo ai anime? We need this to cut down on the gigantic list on yuri (animation) Kyaa the Catlord 19:08, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I gotta say guys, I think these two cats are bad ideas. I think the lists are bad ideas as well. -- Ned Scott 09:08, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
There's a bit of a dispute over at
.hack//SIGN about if it should be in
Category:Yuri. I'm not even sure if these categories are worth including if we have to handle disputes about them (granted I'm in the dispute myself). Any input would be appreciated. --
Ned Scott 04:12, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
What's going on with the importance ranking? I got a B on the assessment scale for List of Scrapped Princess episodes, so now I want an importance number. Want, want, want; that's me. - Peregrinefisher 10:44, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Shortcut |
WP:Anime WP:Manga |
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Portal | Anime and manga |
Wikimedia Commons | Anime and manga |
Parent project(s) | Entertainment |
Project banner template | {{ WikiProject Anime and manga}} |
Userbox | {{ User WP Anime}} |
Better? Now it is as slim as most side infoboxes. Several wikiprojects seem to be ok with it.-- 201 07:44, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, besides stating I like it, there isn't much I can do. Many wikiproject forget to make some of the elements of the box (either shorcuts, portal, notice or user template) or place the syntax in different sections etc. The purpose of the box is to gather all that basic info at the top of the page so that the reader won't have to scan for those elements. But I don't think you're buying. Forget about it. Weird, since the news box almost on top is a little, what's the word?-- 201 20:49, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
User:201 is a confirmed sockpuppet of a blocked user who has a history of disruptive editing. CovenantD 20:01, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm thinking about changing the TOC in List of Outlaw Star characters and some others if I can find a good way to do it. I want a header for each character, but the normal TOC gets to long. I don't want to use a compactTOC because I'd like to group them by affiliation, instead of alphabetically. The TOC at List of countries gives me hope, but it's mostly alphabetical. If there was a way to autohide sections of a normal TOC that would be best, but I don't think that functionality has been built yet. Until then, does anyone have any good examples/ideas. - Peregrinefisher 18:12, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
I stumbled across this image after becoming aware of a page up for deletion that used these images extensively:
They're used in a series of article for a series of comics and animation, entitled Dragon Ball, started comming out in 1984, so I don't see them being out of copyright. Could I get some assistance in removing the very poor use of copyrighted imagary from wikipedia? The images are everywhere. I put the first image I saw listed here up for deleting before I realised the other ones were actually also not unique works by the uploader. Can I get some assistance? I get the feeling I'm going to make a some fans of this work very angry if I just go and list them all. Kevin_b_er 07:55, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
I've proposed a slight re-wording on WT:NOT#Plot summaries part 3 for our current policy concerning plot summaries ( WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information point 7). Requesting comments, especially since I don't recall the original discussion regarding the wording being advertised much. -- Ned Scott 08:05, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to propose that all articles relating to Anime or Manga, use any names as specific by Romanization. I say this because many series have a mixture of using the English dub names. So I suggest whatever is the most "official" name be used as official, with any Dub or Manga Translations listed if the name is different in the English edition. Also, when making an article I think we should look at everything, not just literal translation, for a much more accurate and official Article. If the format is set to this, then we can have a continuity between all Anime and Manga Articles. for example One Piece uses almsot all Japanese names and spellings, but Detective Conan's Article is under it's English name, Case Closed.-- Pyrgus 09:05, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm getting tired of browsing through anime articles like Gundam or such that needlessly shows specs and info about specific Mobile suits/ robots without providing a picture of the robot. I doubt it would be serious copyright infringment to make sure most (or hopefully all) suit models get a picture- its just seems that people are too lazy to find them. This is the first time I wanted to help by changing the site, but the only pictures I can find are through google searches and thus don't qualify as "fair use." For example, I've tried to get images for the aricle "RX-110 Gabthley," and the closest match I've found is at http://www.robot-japan.com/Gundam-Robot/gundam/z/RX-110.html. I'm just too new at wikipedia to do it right, so does someone want to look into this for me or talk me through it? and is this even the right place to talk about this? If not, PM me or something after you delete this (Gosh, I have NO idea about what I'm doing).
Ignatius Anteros 10:55, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
I have initiated an AfD on the article for the Null One Piece scanlation group here, based on notability grounds. Feel free to have whatever input you feel fitting there. -- tjstrf 04:33, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Someone needs to take a hacksaw to the Ranma 1/2 character articles. Pages with entire paragraphs dedicated to fanfic portrayals do not have a place here. And I'm not going to do it since it's far too much effort to invest into an anime I don't even like. Danny Lilithborne 01:28, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I think that proposal of adding a major adversaries section to the Ranma template navigation the anon made could be useful; since Saffron, Ryu Kumon and others don't fit in the recurring or minor characters category and they already have their own page (full of biased cruft by the way), a major adversaries section on the template could solve that. If you have thoughts about it, the proposal is at: Template_talk:Ranma_navigation we can discuss it there. Facer 20:02, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Okay, per notification of the anon, I've proposed that several individual articles about Ranma locations be merged into a single 'Locations of Ranma 1/2' article. You can see the proposal at
Talk:Furinkan and leave any thoughts there.
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contribs 04:15, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm currently in the middle of undertaking to properly spell (with macrons where appropriate) as many Japan-related articles as I can get my hands on. What is the consensus here? I guess most common English-language name general goes, yes? The one in particular I'm asking about at this moment is Asuka Langley Soryu from Evangelion. She's named after a naval ship called the Sōryū; for now I'm leaving her name macronless - what do you all think? LordAmeth 11:42, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
It would be quite useful to have a list of all anime and manga forme GA, A, and FA articles. Is there any easy way to do this (other than to roam all the articles in the project and tag them one by one?-- SidiLemine 11:40, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
We have a few articles that violate the naming conventions for articles that are lists. Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists)#Naming_conventions
Lists should not be called Famous Xs or Notable Xs yet we have:
I think that the "Notable" should be dropped from these article names. Notability is implied as wikipedia requires notability anyway. They're also definitely lists and so should have the prefix "List of" in front of them. One of the articles was this way but was renamed, I'm assuming, in line with the other list article names. -- Squilibob 14:39, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Excellent idea. That's very needed, as per discussion below.-- SidiLemine 10:51, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Is there any sort of bottom line for inclusion of manga and anime series articles? I'm wondering this because as is, there does not seem to be any applicable guideline for notability on manga whatsoever. Wikipedia:Notability (books) specifically does not apply to comics, and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books)#Note on notability criteria seems similarly uninstructive.
As I see it, this would only rarely become a problem, but a recent prod on +Anima (which stated the article did not make a claim to notability) made me wonder about this. I ended up defending the article based on its existance as a 10 volume internationally published book series, and the prod'ding editor withdrew the request. However, the lack of any form of citeable guideline on the subject made me uncomfortable. I believe a project guideline or standard would be useful here. Comments? -- tjstrf 20:11, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Extending the question, what does "commercially published" mean? Tankobon? Inclusion in comic magazines? And what about dojinshi? There are many notable dojins out there but most of them are not, so where do we draw the line? _dk 23:58, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
At Talk:Sailor_Moon_episode_001#MOTD_Profiles we would like to know if it's alright to add a profile for an MOTD as our formatting stands we have villians with their group affiliations. Like Sailor Galaxia with Shadow Galatica... The MOTD would then fit with the episodes. However, we are concerned that this might be too much fan-crazed information. The MOTD would include list of attacks, the name, type and creation of said monster. (Master would be debated). Naming the attacks of said monster would slow down the Story section.. and it would provide a quick scan, however is this too much info or too insane? -- Hitsuji Kinno 16:38, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:
and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 22:21, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Portal:Anime and Manga: I've added a series and bio for this week, but next week is still blank. Also, the news are from August. -- GunnarRene 01:30, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
It also looks like a weekly series and biography need to be selected from now until the end of 2006? -- 9muses 19:07, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I've done a lot of work on the Tomo-dachi anime convention article. A few weeks back it was marked that it read like an advertisemen. Since I have tried to reduce this. Even so it would appear the admin whom marked it as such has yet to return or answer my discussion piece about it. Could one of you guys look and see if you think it still reads like an advert and if it does tell me how to clean it up? Thanks Butch-cassidy 13:11, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the help guys. Butch-cassidy 10:24, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
{{School Rumble character}}
Why is this template called School Rumble character, while it's a generic template that could equally well be used on any other chara? As far as I can see, there's nothing SR-specific about it. I would also like to note that its size and font-size are different from {{
Infobox Animanga}}; that should be corrected.
Shinobu 21:14, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Since this seems to be one of the more active WikiProjects that also deal with episode articles, I thought it might be worth mentioning here that there is a request for comment on episode naming conventions:
Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television)#RfC Episode Article Naming conventions - a debate over the use of disambiguation titles for episode articles of a TV show when no disambiguation is needed. Also, when disambig titles are used for episode articles should they be (ShowName) or (ShowName episode). All are invited to join the discussion and give their input.
-- Ned Scott 02:56, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 5 | ← | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | Archive 12 | → | Archive 15 |
hahaha, awesome → Image:Wikipe-tan visual novel.png. (horray for more free-use images!) -- Ned Scott 07:16, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
More Wikipe-tan stuff (not exactly project related, but hey, she is our mascot :) ) -- Ned Scott 04:02, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
From Wikipedia:Village pump (news)#Wikipe-tan makes a cameo appearance in UK magazine Games TM
I translated the Spanish on that image. (^_^) ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihon jo e 21:56, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
One of the Wikipe-tan images has been picked as the picture of the day for October 2 :-). See Wikipedia talk:Wikipe-tan#POTD -- GunnarRene 10:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Probably obvious by our time-stamps, but she's now live on the
Main Page as today's
featured picture. (Anyone notice that Main Page breaks
WP:NC when it capitalizes Page? ;) ) --
Ned Scott 04:06, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Dark Shikari Bot was approved for a trial. I just ran it on all Anime/manga stubs, anime/manga character stubs, and hentai stubs. It took about an hour, but every one is now tagged. Are there any other categories I should check through and tag? — Dark Shikari talk/ contribs 16:00, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Not that there were really any important topics or anything vital being discussed that were archived, but shouldn't we wait a bit more than 3 and a half days for some of these discussions? I don't think the talk page is that active for it to be a problem to at least wait a week on some stuff, even if it's nothing more than displaying a good idea such as logic behind a page merge, etc. Again, not really a problem, but I thought I would bring it up. -- Ned Scott 04:01, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Isn't it contrary to Wikipedia naming conventions and just simply weird to title this page WikiProject Anime and manga? We should move it to WikiProject anime and manga (no capital letters) already. Same with all related templates etc. Unless there's some policy/guideline I'm missing? -- Ynhockey ( Talk) 09:47, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
This particular policy does not apply just to the article namespace. WP:NC makes it clear that the reason for the non-capitalization of the 2nd word and onwards is technical, therefore it applies to all namespaces. Capitalizing all the words also works (WikiProject Anime And Manga), however, capitalizing and (And) is unconventional. It would be logical to move the page to WikiProject Anime and Manga (according to English grammar rules), but it would violate WP:NC. But in any case, anything is better than WikiProject Anime and manga. I mean, why is anime capitalized and manga not? -- Ynhockey ( Talk) 13:02, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering. Does WPA&M do any collaborations? I didn't notice a "Collaboration of the specified-timeframe" anywhere. -- Kitch 12:03, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Building on the work by Ned Scott and User:Squilibob, I have improved the optional show/hide parameter on the anime and manga portions of the Animanga infobox. This option allows you to compress long lists of publishers and networks by putting the foreign language version information into a dropdown list. (See Bleach (manga) and Rurouni Kenshin for examples.) The manga field is "publisher_other=", the anime field "network_other=". (The manga field was previously "translated_publisher=", so if you've been using the old one, it will need changed.)
The feature was previously present, but for some reason it would generate 5pt text within the hidden list, which was pretty much unreadable. It's now legible, and I have it confirmed as operating properly for (almost) everyone. Feel free to use it! -- tjstrf 02:23, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I believe the English publishers must be included. This is enwiki and the English language edition is arguably equally or perhaps more important to our encyclopedic usefulness than even the original publisher. We are a reference source for those who read English. The Japanese publishers should also be included, as they are the original. All others should be hidden. -- tjstrf 22:34, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Could you add the show/hide parameter to studio and network in Template:Infobox Anime episode. Also, it could use previous and next fields to link between episodes. - Peregrinefisher 18:34, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
If not can someone start one?-- 201 21:37, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Wikiprojects are useful when there is plenty of articles to coordinate them. If there are few articles wikiprojects are useless.-- 201 19:57, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, there are Simpsons, Digimon and Pokemon wikiprojects. How do you explain that. Remember: Dragonball has as many or more episodes, at least twice as many characters and, since it was published in comics and animation, you'd have to multiply that by two.
The organization is kind of messy. There are way too many character lists. Some episode synopsis are missing and if they are done we'd have to coordinate them with comic synopsis, since the storyes tend to be line by line the same.-- 201 06:39, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Now, it may be useful to investigate the creation of various task forces, similar to what WikiProject Military history has done. I could see a Dragon Ball task force. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihon jo e 15:59, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I don't know anything about Dragonball or its articles, but it looks like there are quite a few. There's a Sailor Moon WikiProject, which is the same level of narrow focus; we cover several dozen articles, and it's working beautifully. -- Masamage 21:41, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Wow, I didn't get what Ned said, my head still hurts. Isn't there a "from A to B" amount of pages, there is need for a task force; more than B amount of pages, a wikiproject is needed" or "Amount of pages > B, wikiproject; amount of pages =< B, task force" rule?
I think Dragonball is bigger than Sailor Moon (in some countries DB was even bigger than pokemon), NEVERTHELESS they should get the same treatement either both task force or both wikiproject. Either sound fine to me. whatever you choose would be ok.-- 201 05:28, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, you're the expert. Lead the way, haha.-- 201 19:02, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
It's supposed to go at the top right of the wikiproject page (only the main).-- 201 20:03, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Yes, now that you said so, I do find it unecessarely big. I hope that can be fixed the way you said. Most infoboxes I know are 250px wide. In this case, I don't know I'd say from 250 to 200px. What do you think?-- 201 00:29, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I don't think WikiProjects need an info box. ···
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Well, some use it and is relatively new. The size, I agree, is too big. I don't know if they are part of a guide line or against one.-- 201 06:44, 5 October 2006 (UTC) WP:WPUN, WP:FILM, WP:WINE and WP:BEER are some of the finest examples.-- 201 07:02, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Over at WikiProject Sailor Moon, we're trying to make some plot-description pages, but are having a hard time knowing what to call the articles.
Here's the problem. The same five plot arcs exist in the anime and manga, but are given different names. The manga came first, which would seem to suggest that we should use those. However, everything other than the manga used the same names as the anime, including the musicals, movies, video games, and English-language manga. Running a Google search for "Sailor Moon S" (the anime arc name) gets 230,000 hits, while running a search for "Sailor Moon Infinity" gets 420, some of which are about different things.
What do you all think? -- Masamage 17:31, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I have no idea how to do this, so could someone please make a category for yuri and shoujo ai anime? We need this to cut down on the gigantic list on yuri (animation) Kyaa the Catlord 19:08, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I gotta say guys, I think these two cats are bad ideas. I think the lists are bad ideas as well. -- Ned Scott 09:08, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
There's a bit of a dispute over at
.hack//SIGN about if it should be in
Category:Yuri. I'm not even sure if these categories are worth including if we have to handle disputes about them (granted I'm in the dispute myself). Any input would be appreciated. --
Ned Scott 04:12, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
What's going on with the importance ranking? I got a B on the assessment scale for List of Scrapped Princess episodes, so now I want an importance number. Want, want, want; that's me. - Peregrinefisher 10:44, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Shortcut |
WP:Anime WP:Manga |
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Portal | Anime and manga |
Wikimedia Commons | Anime and manga |
Parent project(s) | Entertainment |
Project banner template | {{ WikiProject Anime and manga}} |
Userbox | {{ User WP Anime}} |
Better? Now it is as slim as most side infoboxes. Several wikiprojects seem to be ok with it.-- 201 07:44, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, besides stating I like it, there isn't much I can do. Many wikiproject forget to make some of the elements of the box (either shorcuts, portal, notice or user template) or place the syntax in different sections etc. The purpose of the box is to gather all that basic info at the top of the page so that the reader won't have to scan for those elements. But I don't think you're buying. Forget about it. Weird, since the news box almost on top is a little, what's the word?-- 201 20:49, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
User:201 is a confirmed sockpuppet of a blocked user who has a history of disruptive editing. CovenantD 20:01, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm thinking about changing the TOC in List of Outlaw Star characters and some others if I can find a good way to do it. I want a header for each character, but the normal TOC gets to long. I don't want to use a compactTOC because I'd like to group them by affiliation, instead of alphabetically. The TOC at List of countries gives me hope, but it's mostly alphabetical. If there was a way to autohide sections of a normal TOC that would be best, but I don't think that functionality has been built yet. Until then, does anyone have any good examples/ideas. - Peregrinefisher 18:12, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
I stumbled across this image after becoming aware of a page up for deletion that used these images extensively:
They're used in a series of article for a series of comics and animation, entitled Dragon Ball, started comming out in 1984, so I don't see them being out of copyright. Could I get some assistance in removing the very poor use of copyrighted imagary from wikipedia? The images are everywhere. I put the first image I saw listed here up for deleting before I realised the other ones were actually also not unique works by the uploader. Can I get some assistance? I get the feeling I'm going to make a some fans of this work very angry if I just go and list them all. Kevin_b_er 07:55, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
I've proposed a slight re-wording on WT:NOT#Plot summaries part 3 for our current policy concerning plot summaries ( WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information point 7). Requesting comments, especially since I don't recall the original discussion regarding the wording being advertised much. -- Ned Scott 08:05, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to propose that all articles relating to Anime or Manga, use any names as specific by Romanization. I say this because many series have a mixture of using the English dub names. So I suggest whatever is the most "official" name be used as official, with any Dub or Manga Translations listed if the name is different in the English edition. Also, when making an article I think we should look at everything, not just literal translation, for a much more accurate and official Article. If the format is set to this, then we can have a continuity between all Anime and Manga Articles. for example One Piece uses almsot all Japanese names and spellings, but Detective Conan's Article is under it's English name, Case Closed.-- Pyrgus 09:05, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm getting tired of browsing through anime articles like Gundam or such that needlessly shows specs and info about specific Mobile suits/ robots without providing a picture of the robot. I doubt it would be serious copyright infringment to make sure most (or hopefully all) suit models get a picture- its just seems that people are too lazy to find them. This is the first time I wanted to help by changing the site, but the only pictures I can find are through google searches and thus don't qualify as "fair use." For example, I've tried to get images for the aricle "RX-110 Gabthley," and the closest match I've found is at http://www.robot-japan.com/Gundam-Robot/gundam/z/RX-110.html. I'm just too new at wikipedia to do it right, so does someone want to look into this for me or talk me through it? and is this even the right place to talk about this? If not, PM me or something after you delete this (Gosh, I have NO idea about what I'm doing).
Ignatius Anteros 10:55, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
I have initiated an AfD on the article for the Null One Piece scanlation group here, based on notability grounds. Feel free to have whatever input you feel fitting there. -- tjstrf 04:33, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Someone needs to take a hacksaw to the Ranma 1/2 character articles. Pages with entire paragraphs dedicated to fanfic portrayals do not have a place here. And I'm not going to do it since it's far too much effort to invest into an anime I don't even like. Danny Lilithborne 01:28, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I think that proposal of adding a major adversaries section to the Ranma template navigation the anon made could be useful; since Saffron, Ryu Kumon and others don't fit in the recurring or minor characters category and they already have their own page (full of biased cruft by the way), a major adversaries section on the template could solve that. If you have thoughts about it, the proposal is at: Template_talk:Ranma_navigation we can discuss it there. Facer 20:02, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Okay, per notification of the anon, I've proposed that several individual articles about Ranma locations be merged into a single 'Locations of Ranma 1/2' article. You can see the proposal at
Talk:Furinkan and leave any thoughts there.
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I'm currently in the middle of undertaking to properly spell (with macrons where appropriate) as many Japan-related articles as I can get my hands on. What is the consensus here? I guess most common English-language name general goes, yes? The one in particular I'm asking about at this moment is Asuka Langley Soryu from Evangelion. She's named after a naval ship called the Sōryū; for now I'm leaving her name macronless - what do you all think? LordAmeth 11:42, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
It would be quite useful to have a list of all anime and manga forme GA, A, and FA articles. Is there any easy way to do this (other than to roam all the articles in the project and tag them one by one?-- SidiLemine 11:40, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
We have a few articles that violate the naming conventions for articles that are lists. Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists)#Naming_conventions
Lists should not be called Famous Xs or Notable Xs yet we have:
I think that the "Notable" should be dropped from these article names. Notability is implied as wikipedia requires notability anyway. They're also definitely lists and so should have the prefix "List of" in front of them. One of the articles was this way but was renamed, I'm assuming, in line with the other list article names. -- Squilibob 14:39, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Excellent idea. That's very needed, as per discussion below.-- SidiLemine 10:51, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Is there any sort of bottom line for inclusion of manga and anime series articles? I'm wondering this because as is, there does not seem to be any applicable guideline for notability on manga whatsoever. Wikipedia:Notability (books) specifically does not apply to comics, and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books)#Note on notability criteria seems similarly uninstructive.
As I see it, this would only rarely become a problem, but a recent prod on +Anima (which stated the article did not make a claim to notability) made me wonder about this. I ended up defending the article based on its existance as a 10 volume internationally published book series, and the prod'ding editor withdrew the request. However, the lack of any form of citeable guideline on the subject made me uncomfortable. I believe a project guideline or standard would be useful here. Comments? -- tjstrf 20:11, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Extending the question, what does "commercially published" mean? Tankobon? Inclusion in comic magazines? And what about dojinshi? There are many notable dojins out there but most of them are not, so where do we draw the line? _dk 23:58, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
At Talk:Sailor_Moon_episode_001#MOTD_Profiles we would like to know if it's alright to add a profile for an MOTD as our formatting stands we have villians with their group affiliations. Like Sailor Galaxia with Shadow Galatica... The MOTD would then fit with the episodes. However, we are concerned that this might be too much fan-crazed information. The MOTD would include list of attacks, the name, type and creation of said monster. (Master would be debated). Naming the attacks of said monster would slow down the Story section.. and it would provide a quick scan, however is this too much info or too insane? -- Hitsuji Kinno 16:38, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:
and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 22:21, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Portal:Anime and Manga: I've added a series and bio for this week, but next week is still blank. Also, the news are from August. -- GunnarRene 01:30, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
It also looks like a weekly series and biography need to be selected from now until the end of 2006? -- 9muses 19:07, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I've done a lot of work on the Tomo-dachi anime convention article. A few weeks back it was marked that it read like an advertisemen. Since I have tried to reduce this. Even so it would appear the admin whom marked it as such has yet to return or answer my discussion piece about it. Could one of you guys look and see if you think it still reads like an advert and if it does tell me how to clean it up? Thanks Butch-cassidy 13:11, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the help guys. Butch-cassidy 10:24, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
{{School Rumble character}}
Why is this template called School Rumble character, while it's a generic template that could equally well be used on any other chara? As far as I can see, there's nothing SR-specific about it. I would also like to note that its size and font-size are different from {{
Infobox Animanga}}; that should be corrected.
Shinobu 21:14, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Since this seems to be one of the more active WikiProjects that also deal with episode articles, I thought it might be worth mentioning here that there is a request for comment on episode naming conventions:
Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television)#RfC Episode Article Naming conventions - a debate over the use of disambiguation titles for episode articles of a TV show when no disambiguation is needed. Also, when disambig titles are used for episode articles should they be (ShowName) or (ShowName episode). All are invited to join the discussion and give their input.
-- Ned Scott 02:56, 31 October 2006 (UTC)