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The Administrivia policy for works created in other languages is Troping Works Created in Other Languages. At the moment, this is focused on works with official translations.

More broadly, TV Tropes has a rule that the latest English translation will normally take priority over the original (some exceptions are listed on the Administrivia page), but many pages and examples still use older titles and character names. This cleanup is to help relieve that.

For policy discussions, see the wiki talk Translation Policy thread.

For pages needing work, see here: Sandbox.English Localization Cleanup

Edited by Mrph1 on Feb 24th 2024 at 3:40:26 PM

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
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#301: Mar 1st 2020 at 7:29:03 PM

[up] You can't; at least, not in the URL. You'd need to Wiki Word it.

Once the proper page is made, you can click the Wiki Word button at the top and request the apostrophe be added.

Edited by WarJay77 on Mar 1st 2020 at 10:29:40 AM

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#302: Mar 1st 2020 at 7:30:42 PM

[up][up] Why does it need sandboxing? It doesnt look like it needs to be. You can just do a straight move.

On the edit dropdown list, you have make a custom title request with the Wiki Word button [nja]

Edited by MacronNotes on Mar 1st 2020 at 10:34:02 AM

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Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#303: Mar 1st 2020 at 7:48:17 PM

The sandbox should probably be in the pinned post.

PlasmaPower Piece of Cake. Since: Jan, 2015
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#304: Mar 1st 2020 at 8:31:57 PM

Okay, I started moving all the pages to Manga.Kurokos Basketball. Do I just cut all the pages for Manga.Kuroko No Basuke when I’m done?

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#305: Mar 1st 2020 at 8:34:34 PM

[up] No, you have to redirect them.

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#306: Mar 1st 2020 at 8:38:21 PM

Could the OP be updated to mention that the original titles are to be redirected? People keep cutting them, and that's against policy.

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#307: Mar 1st 2020 at 8:59:40 PM

Also, you have to re-index everything and move the wicks too.

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PlasmaPower Piece of Cake. Since: Jan, 2015
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#308: Mar 1st 2020 at 8:59:48 PM

Okay, so do I do this just to the main trope page or do all the others have to be redirected too?

Edit: What the heck is up with WMG.Kurokos Basketball? When I redirected WMG.Kuroko No Basuke to it it just errors me. Did I redirect it to itself by mistake?

Edited by PlasmaPower on Mar 1st 2020 at 1:28:48 PM

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#309: Mar 1st 2020 at 9:06:51 PM

The main page and all the subpages. I did some of them

Edited by MacronNotes on Mar 1st 2020 at 12:12:55 PM

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#310: Mar 1st 2020 at 9:24:11 PM

Usually only the main work page title is kept as a redirect. Move the wicks starting with the indexes.

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#311: Mar 1st 2020 at 9:26:43 PM

But usually the other subpages have inbounds too though.

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#312: Mar 1st 2020 at 9:44:48 PM

[up] The subpages should still be cut, per past precedent.

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PlasmaPower Piece of Cake. Since: Jan, 2015
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#313: Mar 1st 2020 at 9:51:01 PM

Uhhhh, I think I screwed up on WMG.Kurokos Basketball... I thought I was making WMG.Kuroko No Basuke redirect to WMG.Kurokos Basketball, but I don’t think I was paying attention...

Edited by PlasmaPower on Mar 1st 2020 at 1:55:35 PM

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#314: Mar 1st 2020 at 10:08:03 PM

I believe there are cases where subpages were kept for having a lot of inbounds.

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#316: Mar 2nd 2020 at 6:45:54 AM

Moved to Long-Term Projects.

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#317: Mar 2nd 2020 at 12:40:28 PM

I have moved Busou Renkin to Buso Renkin, done the subpages and begun changing the Wicks but although only changing a single letter is needed there are over 300 of them so a little help would be appreciated.

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#318: Mar 2nd 2020 at 7:13:44 PM

I added an Other folder to the sandbox since I remembered that Yu-Gi-Oh pages are largely correct outside of some still using the Japanese character names (e.g. Arc V).

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#319: Mar 3rd 2020 at 7:09:56 AM

Alright, so what's the case with Touhou? Even though it's officially called Touhou Project in Japan, the series had very few official English releases and they still stick with the original title.

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#320: Mar 3rd 2020 at 7:12:51 AM

[up] The English titles stick with Touhou Project? In that case, the page might need to be moved there. Even if they weren't localized in English, we should probably use Touhou Project since as it's the official title.

I didn't know some of the games were actually officially localized in English though.

Edited by MacronNotes on Mar 3rd 2020 at 10:24:05 AM

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#321: Mar 3rd 2020 at 9:51:58 AM

K, I encountered a strange case with Katawa Shoujo. It's an original English language visual novel developed by western 4chan users, meaning its title was actually translated from English rather than the other way around. By doing the translation, I get two English titles: "Cripple Girls" and "Disability Girls". Should I keep the original Japanese title while listing the English ones as redirects?

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#322: Mar 3rd 2020 at 10:13:24 AM

[up]Definitely keep it at Katawa Shoujo. I don't even think it's necessary to redirect the English translations of the title to it, since nobody calls it that, officially or unofficially; we don't redirect Dream Diary to Yume Nikki.

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#324: Mar 4th 2020 at 6:03:47 AM

So Manga.Gakuen Alice was moved to Manga.Alice Academy a while ago. As pointed out in the discussion page, while the latter is the proper English title, none of the official localizations use it. They all use the original Gakuen Alice. The only thing that points to Alice Academy being used officially is that aborted English dub Animax Asia made. But its a piece of lost media as its not publically available anymore as the project was canceled IIRC.

Should we move it back to Gakuen Alice? And just make Alice Academy a redirect?

Edited by MacronNotes on Mar 4th 2020 at 12:56:06 PM

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#325: Mar 4th 2020 at 9:43:29 AM

[up]I agree it shouldn't have been moved; not sure what to do now.

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