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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
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
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
Apparently, Kindle 4 Light wants a stricter
definition
of
Tutu Fancy.
openNo Title Anime
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?
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
I think somebody needs to talk with maxravenclaw about his edits at YMMV.Sakurasou No Pet Na Kanojo.
openNo Title Anime
Okay I found Characters.Sega Hard Girls with no corresponding work or franchise page (this is related to Hi-sCoool! SeHa Girls but the character page for that is rather short) I'm wondering if we should make a work pager for the former or merge the 2 pages under the name of the latter?
Edited by MorningStar1337openNo Title Anime
I saw a possible edit war at Characters.Shirobako Main Characters, so I'm asking for some guidance: If a character's seiyuu does not have its own page on This Wiki, is it appropriate to pothole the seiyuu's name to the appropriate Anime News Network page?
openNo Title Anime
Do you think the girl on the right of this picture
is wearing a corset? I think she is (and hence falls into Of Corsets Sexy), but what she wears doesn't look like a stereotypical one...
openNo Title Anime
Before I ask for a revert, I want to make sure, due to this being a US-written wiki, that the previous sentences(which would be reverted to) are correct.
For a quick example;
- Let's see... yeah.
- Let's see...yeah.
- Let's see ... yeah.
Which one of the 3 is correct? I know they aren't full sentences, but the key point is given for the overall grammar in this particular case. The edits that I linked to do nothing but remove the spaces of a tons of paragraphs(making it look like my second subbullet example). I highly doubt that's correct. A teacher I just asked I know said the 3rd example is proper. But she's from the United Kingdom, so the Wiki itself may do it differently.
openNo Title Anime
Not sure where to ask this, so I'm asking this here. I noticed some Conversation On The Main Page on the Arc Fatigue page, regarding Katekyo Hitman Reborn. I sent the editor who put it in a standard message on natter. But I know nothing about that manga, so I have no idea how to fix the example myself. Can anyone else fix it?
openNo Title Anime
Mitis went and violated Example Indentation all over the Anime and Manga section of This Is a Drill while alphabetizing it.
Edited by ryanasaurus0077openNo Title Anime
I've been making it a little project of mine to migrate any Japanese-named manga, anime, or light novel series over to their official English names whenever they exist via places like Amazon, FUNimation, Crunchyroll, Hulu etc. There's one I've wanted to do that with for a while now, but not quite sure how to handle it due to some title overlap.
The series title of Manga.Nanatsu No Taizai translates to, and is marketed in English as, "The Seven Deadly Sins". Manga.The Seven Deadly Sins already exists as a redirect to Nanatsu.
Ordinarily a straightforward issue, but there is also a page titled Theatre.The Seven Deadly Sins. In terms of content, the Theater page has only itself, not even any examples and a blank YMMV page. It's in dire need of crosswicking at the very least.
Now the issue here is if I were to do the migration, do I just move everything, including sub-pages, over to Manga.The Seven Deadly Sins per normal, or should I do something special to make sure that there's as little overlap with the Theater page as possible?
I suppose what I'm asking is which page gets the priority?
Edited by sgamer82openNo Title Anime
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=DarknessInducedAudienceApathy.AnimeAndManga
Would Pokémon really count as dark enough to have this trope?
openNo Title Anime
I have a certain issue with the Fullmetal Alchemist example on Devil, but No God, it seems to miss the point of the trope, and seems to misunderstand the term "God" just to refer to the stereotypical "Kindly old man" figure that Christianity tends to present, when the term is actually a lot more broad then that, and Truth is acknowledged to be the God of the FMA universe. The example would be better in God and Satan Are Both Jerks.
I'd remove it myself, but I'd like to ask for a second opinion here before doing so.
So, what do you guys think? Should I remove it? Leave as it is? What?
Edited by SaintDeltoraopenNo Title Anime
So I'm working on correcting namespaces to either Anime/ or VideoGame/ for Main.Sands Of Destruction, and Main.World Destruction is a current redirect to VideoGame.Sands Of Destruction. Apparently "World Destruction" is a literal translation of the Japanese title, but not an official English title. Can this be safely cutlisted (with 0 inbounds), or should a redirect for "World Destruction" be kept, only with the correct VideoGame/ namespace?

For the Dragonball Z characters A to G" page, Ramona122003 reversed my edits when I added folders for the trope. I wan to put it back, but I don't want to start an Edit W Ar.