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openNo Title Anime
The anime Shirobako contained many references to real-life anime production, be it works, creators, or in rare cases, points in the history of anime. Before, these entries were entered as examples of tropes such as Bland-Name Product (reference to companies), No Celebrities Were Harmed (if referring to specific persons), or Shout-Out (if referring to incidents).
Yesterday an editor moved all these entries to ShoutOut.Shirobako, and re-organized these entries by what is being referred. While I don't mind sub-paging these entries, I want some opinion on whether listing them all under a Shout-Out subpage is the proper action.
openNo Title Anime
Apparently, Kindle 4 Light wants a stricter
definition
of
Tutu Fancy.
openNo Title Anime
I feel like this has been asked before, but I wanted to get clarification on it just in case.
So I know that on character pages for Anime, editors put both the Japanese name and the English (dubbed) name. What is suppose to be the protocol for the Main page?
I was browsing the Digimon Frontier page recently and found that on the Main page, it jumps between Japanese and English names between the tropes with little to no regard. Is it suppose to be consistent throughout the page or am I just making a big deal out of nothing? I don't really want to unilaterally change every name from English to Japanese or vice versa without a second opinion.
openNo Title Anime
We've got an edit war over on the YMMV page for Dangan Ronpa
, concerning what is a non-YMMV trope in the first place.
openNo Title Anime
I've done this sort of thing a couple times before but I wanted to clarify a detail about the procedure I might have missed in the past: Right now I'm doing a move of LightNovel.Inou Battle Wa Nichijoukei No Naka De to LightNovel.When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace (it's official English title courtesy of Crunchyroll). I figure a redirect from the Japanese to English Light Novel namespaces is warranted, but do the japanese name sub-pages just go to the Cut List? None of them had more than one wick (which I've already converted to the English named wick). Ill set up the Lightnovel redirect but otherwise leave the rest alone until confirmed to Cut or Redirect them
openNo Title Anime
Greetings, I am WC-83. I am a relatively new troper. I a request assistance though I am not sure if this is the place. A problem is occurring on the Sonic X character page. I was expanding the character list when for some reason one of the sections and a character were removed. The strange thing is that said character is still in the page when you go to edit the page and when you preview it, but not on the page after saving.
regards, Wikia Contributor 83
Edited by WC-83openNo Title Anime
gethomas3 is taking it upon himself to reintegrate Anime.Dragon Ball Z to Manga.Dragon Ball, including blanking the main page.
We probably need reverts on a lot of the subpages.
openNo Title Anime
I would like some help dealing with someone named Jemma in the Naruto Wall Bangers section, he or she has gone out of their way to remove any section from this, Strangled by the Red String and an entry I wrote on Derailing Love Interests because of her own bias towards Hinata, Naru Hina and/or Sasu Saku. I am not a "salty" NS shipper, I just think it's wrong of her to try to cover up others negativity even if they are valid complaints.
openNo Title Anime
Pretty please forgive me, but there may be a potential edit war on the WMG.Dragonball page. Don't get me wrong, it can be re-written, because the entry just sounds like the troper is complaining about a character he/she doesn't like.
openNo Title Anime
The Yu-Gi-Oh! anime page (and the manga page) seems to have a lot of cases of the manga being seen as superior. While there are plot holes in the anime's version I feel like we should try to be more objective.
Example: "All prime cases of the anime being made Lighter and Softer compared to the manga in order to appeal to an audience on TV."
Edited by lalalei2001openNo Title Anime
Fire Shadow pulled a moment from DethroningMoment.Dragon Ball Z saying that because the character was never top-tier, his Butt-Monkey status in the series is fine. Isn't Dethroning Moment Of Suck personal?
That said, the Moment was actually two (him getting a bridge dropped on him and later him losing his girlfriend), so it deserves to be pulled. I was just wondering if the reason was kosher.
openNo Title Anime
Saiya Jedi keeps removing Canon Discontinuity from Anime.Dragon Ball GT
openNo Title Anime
Are glasses and hats synonymous with each other, or is Oresky Not An Example of The Glasses Come Off? I've removed it from the character sheet until further notice and will readd it if it is indeed an example. If Tropes Are Flexible doesn't apply here, then I don't know what else could possibly justify someone who doesn't wear glasses being an example of that trope. If Tropes Are Flexible doesn't apply here.
openNo Title Anime
It seems like someone created a duplicate work page and several subpages for Kirby: Right Back at Ya! under the native title Hoshi No Kaabii. Would cutlisting or redirecting it be better in this case?
EDIT: The same thing seems to be going on with Ryu Ga Gotoku / Yakuza.
Edited by MorgenthaleropenNo Title Anime
This is another Anime title question.
I'm planning to launch an article on the Schoolgirl Series in Winter 2014 Anime. The problem is the title, because the manga and anime insist of slightly difference work titles.
The anime insists of Koufuku Graffiti, which is the romanization of the Japanese title. On the other hand, the manga, when referring in Latin characters, never calls it that way; it is called Happy Cooking Graffiti.
In this particular case, FAQ #5 of Administrivia.How To Create A Works Page gave no help, as we don't have an officially-translated title, IMO...
Edited by SamCurt

I wanted to do a cleanup of Pokémon Adventures and its related pages and posted in the discussion page asking for help, but I haven't gotten any feedback from anybody (though this might be because I turned the original page into a redirect when I renamed it to follow with our English name > Japanese Name policy, screwing with people's watchlists). What should I do to get help?