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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?
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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.
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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.
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Uhm hi, I know Naughty Tentacles was cut because of reasons, so I figure I should mention this: A lot I see All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles being used as a replacement for the cut Naught Tentacles trope (Like this from Mx0 All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles: Mizuki encounters some in the cave where Lucy is from.)
Who should I report that to: do I need to start a TRS? (I dont know how to do that)
i have no problem with Naughty Tentacles myself, but I figure if you cut it you probably want it to stay cut
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So this is an old issue, but there's a Spell My Name With An S disagreement on ∀ Gundam with Loran/Rolan here
. Currently the pages have been edited twice to change Loran to Rolan.
On the one hand, 90% of the time I've seen it, it's Loran, and in the one official localization of anything Turn A (thank you, Development Hell...) his name is Loran. On the other, Sinxxx points out a Retconned translation of Ple/Purus in said official source, but since that source is currently the only English translation, I'm inclined to say that we should stick with Loran. (ETA: According to the character trope page, the official site and artbooks went with Rolan, but I'm pretty sure those are in Japanese, not English.)
Personally I prefer Loran, but I know the Gundam Wiki uses Rolan. There's also an instance of the name being written Rolan in the anime itself, but L/R's have been confused before in Gundam (e.g. Mobile Fighter G Gundam's "Rock On" for "Lock On" in one episode) so I wouldn't call that hard evidence. It would probably be a good idea to settle it rather than have someone switch them all every few months.
Edited by eowynjediopenNo Title Anime
I noticed a duplicate example on the Savage Wolves page:
- In Inu Yasha, one of the youkai him and his group encounter is a giant, manipulated wolf and his normal-sized pack. Later they encounter a village where everyone has been slaughtered by wolves, lead by a humanoid wolf-youkai named Koga. Eventually Koga turns out a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and they (usually) get along fine with him.
A little later in the Anime and Manga folder:
- Inu Yasha: The wolf-youkai tribe was infamous for eating humans and destroying entire human villages in the process. Kouga's tribe destroyed three human villages (including Rin's village, killing everyone there including Rin herself) before Inuyasha's group was able to catch him. After that first encounter Kouga became enamoured enough of Kagome to that he stops his tribe from eating humans and from that point on he became Noble Wolf.
I haven't watched Inu Yasha, so my questions are:
- How to word the example (no reason to have two entries for the same thing)?
- What should be done with such duplicate examples in the future? What is the best place to ask for help if I am not familiar with the work in question?
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(Medium listed as Anime as the page involved is in that medium, although the question itself is medium-neutral)
The question is: Can pages be split based on YMMV tropes?
Specifics: Characters.Detective Conan One Scene Wonders is relatively old; it was first created as a folder within Characters.Detective Conan and later split into a separate article, together with other content, in 2012. While as a Long Runner, Detective Conan has a large amount of One-Scene Wonder examples, OSW is a YMMV trope. So, is it appropriate to keep that page as is, or should I re-organize it, or at least, rename it?
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I have questions about the rather or not the "A Certain Scientific Railgun" series actually qualifies as a spin-off of the "A Certain Magical Index" series. The anime even refers to itself as a "side story" not a spin-off, a side story being a story that is happening away from the main but can still holds importance, a spin-off is a story that spins off into another direction of the main and doesn't make much of a difference to it. Also it doesn't fit in any of the classifications of a spin-off according to its page. The closest one it fits into is the shared continuity category but with all of the defining characteristics being reversed.
1: All of the characters from the original show up in it and hold an importance to the plot.
2: The plot of both series runoff each other, Railgun has some things that look like a Deus Ex Machina that are further explained in the Index, while it also conversely gives a more clear and better understanding of the details of science side for the Index. Both are practically essential to properly understand the full extent of the overall plot of the franchise.
3: The Railgun manga was originally created for purpose of better understanding the plot, characters and timeline of the Index series while telling it through the eyes of its minor and secondary characters.
Conclusion: Wouldn't all this mean that A Certain Scientific Railgun is not a "Spin-Off" but an entire "Lower Deck Series?"
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Looking to launch a works page. The page itself already exists under a Japanese title, Mondaiji Tachi Ga Isekai Kara Kuru Sou Desu Yo, but I was thinking of copy & pasting everything over to a page listed under its English title (as provided by Crunchyroll) Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they? with the Japanese name as a redirect. Is there anything I need to check on before I actually do it or can I just go ahead and get it done. I ran into this at least one other time and I think I was told then to just do it, but I don't want to step on any toes unnecessarily if I can help it.
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Eva Unit 01 un-commented a large number of ZCE tropes on the Characters.Negima Class 3 A without adding additional context with the edit reason "some tropes, I feel, don't really NEED examples". Requesting a moderator rollback the change. I also sent him a PM about the matter, so hopefully that end will be resolved shortly.
edit: He also did the same to Characters.Negima Ala Rubra.
editedit: Stand by, talking to him right now, he might fix it himself.
Edited by DiscaropenNo Title Anime
I wasn't sure where else to put this, but given the potential edit war scenario that could come about, I thought I'd at least try here first.
Anyway, I think it's time to figure out what to do about the naming consistencies when it comes to Naruto. The character sheets (where I spend most of my time) alone are a mess when it comes to using naming conventions, and some pages aren't even consistent with themselves. For example, the same folder uses Mokuton (direct romanji), Wood Release (literal translation and what the Wiki uses), and Wood Style (official English translation). I'd really rather not just decide by myself carte blanche which version to use. In the interest of cutting off an edit war before it even starts, what do you guys suggest I do?
Edited by KuroiHadouopenNo Title Anime
Dark Hero 9 seems to have a Single-Issue Wonk in regards to an example of The Dog Shot First in the Updated Re-release of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. In the original, Kira (The Hero) kills Nichol (a member of the Five Bad Band) in self-defense when Nichol ambushes him. In the remake, Kira simply dodges Nichol's attack, and Nichol dies by accidentally impaling himself on Kira's Laser Blade.
Seems like a pretty textbook example of The Dog Shot First, but Dark Hero 9 has removed it a half-dozen times across both the Gundam Seed and The Dog Shot First pages in two different incidents (first on October 12th last year, then again on February 7th this year), insisting that it's not an example.
Seems like a really stupid thing to get in an edit war over, but that's where it's heading.
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I am to take it that personal opinion on wiki pages is discouraged, if not prohibited? This question is prompted by the presence of a bullet-point concerning existentialism on the Sora No Woto page, which states as follows:
An overarching theme of the show is how people give meaning to their lives, from religion to sticking up for their True Companions or their country in the face of a neutral, cold universe. The episodes where this is more blatant are episode seven and the last DVD episode (in particular Rio's final voice-over). Filicia Heideman in particular is a textbook case of The Anti-Nihilist.
I saw two problems with the bullet and removed it, with the edit reason that existentialism is more opinion-driven when applied to anime, and as such, would better be suited for a review. I feel the problems can be summarised as 1) it is not a matter of correctness (as everyone is free to interpret an anime as they will), but rather, the imposition of a particular viewpoint in the wiki itself and 2) the work in question is not solidly about existentialism; the events that appear as 'existentialist' elements are open to interpretation.
That's the background: what are the usual guidelines for things like that?
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I just came back from being edit banned for one apparent 'vandalism'. It's fully my fault, but I want to make sure this never happens again. This encompasses many pages in Names To Know In Anime, Voice Actors, Actors, etc.
Well it started with me thinking that Ryusei Nakao's page has headers and footers completely taken straight from Frieza's quotes, no reference to this wiki, or the very person himself, etc. However, if we look at other pages like Toru Ohira, the dub voice of Darth Vader, it refers to this wiki, the actor's role and the related actors. Rather than "Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father", the one used is "Toshiyuki Morikawa never told you how I described your father" (Toshiyuki Morikawa being the dub voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi). I thought it was good.
So I decided to edit Ryusei Nakao, changing the header with what used to be his footer (The quote about him destroying the Saiyan planet), but changed it that it refers to this site... unfortunately I used the words 'Fast Eddie' and 'Moderators' (rather than the seiyuus of Dodoria and Zarbon (the latter being Show Hayami)). That's my first crime.
Then for the footer, I decided to use Mayuri Kurotsuchi's long-winded "The Reason You Suck" Speech and changed it rather than about 'science' but more about tropes. Unfortunately, I got all those long-winded speech into an All Blue Entry. That's... the second and final crime that got me eventually banned.
I've applied for editing again and right now I need to know where the line must be drawn when we're doing (voice) actor references like this. To note, there are also Self-Demonstrating Article in regards of Voice Actors, mostly in anime, for instance, Michael Mc Connohie, Kazuhiko Inoue, Akio Ohtsuka, Rikiya Koyama, Nozomu Sasaki, etc. If such self-demonstrating was not allowed, I should begin a reverting spree to make it not self-demonstrating.
But yeah, please tell me where the line should be drawn about these things. Thank you.
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For those who are familiar with Makoto Shinkai's Voices Of A Distant Star, I have an inquiry as to the usage of the tropes Time Skip.
Typically, Time Skip is used where a period of time has elapsed in-universe and the story picks up following this period. Voices Of A Distant Star presents a unique case, where the story is exchanged between a six month period (in Mikako's case) and eight years (in Noboru's case). While the story moves back and forth between two periods, the story itself does not jump over a period: hence my question as to whether or not that qualifies as a Time Skip?

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 sgamer82