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Time Stranger Kyoko

Alright, I'll change the other images to one single image. I think the image of Chocola should stay though if that's alright, since she is the focus of the OVA based on the series. Kelakagandy (talk) 01:17, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Alright, I did it. I also attempted to caption the Strangers picture better, though I'm not sure how easy it is to understand... :/ Kelakagandy (talk) 01:47, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Happy holidays! moocowsrule 18:43, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

W00t! ^_^ —Dinoguy1000 18:43, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

W00T! Have you seen the message at the top of my page yet? XD moocowsrule 18:55, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Yup. I used to have one of those bars on my own userpage, but got bored with it and took it down. That, and some editors don't particularly like being tricked by fake interface messages... ;) —Dinoguy1000 18:59, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Well that's too bad. They can get mad if they want to. It is my userpage :D moocowsrule 19:09, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

I dunno, there are parts of the userpage guidelines they could throw at you... ;) —Dinoguy1000 19:13, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas Dinoguy1000!! Watch this abomination from Brazil's Video Brinquedo. : ) – J U M P G U R U ^{■ask㋐㋜㋗■} 19:43, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Yikes... the first 10 seconds were more than enough for me... =P —Dinoguy1000 18:25, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

List love

With all the work on the List of manga licensed in English and List of manga series by volume count, what do you think of adding an overhaul of List of manga magazines to the work load? -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 00:59, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Hmm... not much detail there, is there? Looking at the talk page, I see an immediate possibility for splitting out a List of defunct manga magazines or similar, and at the least, I think publication dates should be added, and possibly the publication schedule (weekly, monthly, biannual, etc.). Other than that, I'm really not sure what to do with the list. Any thoughts on your end? —Dinoguy1000 18:31, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

That was what I was thinking too, start date and end date (or ongoing) and schedule at the least, maybe parent company? -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 22:45, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Parent company would be good as well, it fits in with how we mention the author on List of manga licensed in English. Speaking of that, is there any type of precedent for creating similar "List of manga licensed in X" lists for other languages, or would that just fall under "let the other-language Wikipedias see to their own" (just curious, I don't have a plan or anything... ;) )? —Dinoguy1000 22:50, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Good question. I'm inclined to say let them see to their own, cause I can't think of any precedence for it. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 22:57, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Might be something to ask the project when I've got nothing better to do... In any case, I doubt I'll be able to really start anything with List of manga magazines today, since I only have about a half hour left at the library (and I'm still playing Watchlist Catchup). —Dinoguy1000 22:59, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

That's cool. I'm home now after the long drive to and from the airport. Mom (and her boyfriend) are visiting till the 27th, so I'm mostly not doing heavy editing. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 23:04, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, that's what I figured (I've been stalking reading your blog for a few weeks now XD ). Hmm... the idea of someone's mom having a boyfriend (or dad + girlfriend) just seems incredibly weird to me, for some reason... —Dinoguy1000 23:07, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

LOL, trying being the kid listening to them talk about their romantic life :P (prude that I am, though, they are sleeping in separate rooms for the visit. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 23:09, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Mwehehe, revenge is sweet (even if unintentional)... *evilly wrings hands* >=D —Dinoguy1000 23:11, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

*invades chat* XD it does seem odd. ムーカオズルール^{(Talk to Moo)} 05:56, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

OMG!!! HOW DID I FORGET TO SIGN THAT??? ムーカオズルール^{(Talk to Moo)} 05:56, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

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Saint Seiya

Hi Dinoguy. Do you know if some of the American Shonen Jump have production info of Saint Seiya? All the sources I know are unreliable. Thanks.Tintor2 (talk) 17:56, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Not that I recall, although references to the series have definitely been made in the magazine (mostly just promoting the series for sale)... but keep in mind that I currently have no access to any but one issue from before October 2005 (and it's possible that I've lost access to some of these issues as well, since the libraries may have lost an issue or something), and also that I'm still working through issues up to where my own collection starts. I suppose I should check on eBay or something to see if anyone has older issues up for sale... *starts thinking* —Dinoguy1000 18:03, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Ok, thanks.Tintor2 (talk) 18:05, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

...and, actually, I think I just found something good... *gets all excited* —Dinoguy1000 18:19, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Cool. But too bad I live in South America.Tintor2 (talk) 18:25, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

That's no problem, I've placed a bid, and hopefully I'll get it. *crosses fingers* Unfortunately, I probably won't know until Monday, so... —Dinoguy1000 18:35, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

...and, it's mine! ^_^ Now I just have to wait 2-9 days for it to get here through USPS. —Dinoguy1000 16:51, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Nice to hear.Tintor2 (talk) 17:08, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

It seems one of the earliest issues has an article discussing Saint Seiya, but I'm not sure if any of it is useful. I'll put it up here anyways, when I get the chance. —Dinoguy1000 19:32, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks.Tintor2 (talk) 23:18, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

No problem. —Dinoguy1000 23:20, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Infobox animanga update

Hey Farix, I see you're doing another AWB run to update transclusions of {{Infobox animanga}}. It's looking pretty good, but I was wondering if you could split publishers, broadcasters, etc. out using the _en and _other parameters as appropriate, and if you could also alphasort these parameters by country name. (In addition, I've been mulling over starting a discussion for a massive overhaul of the infobox... I guess I should wait awhile before starting it now ;) ). —Dinoguy1000 21:13, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

I won't be able to deal with the _en and _other parameters as there is too much involved then a simple search and replace. And frankly, I would prefer to see the _en parameters phased out altogether. As for your proposed changes, it's still early in the update and I can pause it while your make your proposed overhaul. I only finished the numbers and As, approximately the first 200 of over 3,000 transclustions. --Farix (Talk) 21:31, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Cutie Honey: thanks for maintaining

Thanks for your revert of Cutie Honey. I used to watch that page more closely, but (mostly because of the immense scope of the article) I've decided to move on to subarticle New Cutie Honey for now. I've listed NCH for peer review after it was rated "B"; any thoughts on improving it are appreciated. --an odd name 23:04, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

No problem! I really don't do anything with peer reviews, although I will do copyedits (mostly to article leads) from time to time if I really feel like it. —Dinoguy1000 23:06, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Can I help?

I saw your comment on User talk:Collectonian saying that you had missed a few episodes of the Avatar. Can I know which episodes? Maybe I can find a website about it. --Mark Chung (talk) 05:02, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Have a look at User:Dinoguy1000/Anime, Avatar is listed there... but I normally don't have much time to watch stuff on the internet, and missing a bit of Avatar doesn't really bother me (though I *would* like to know how it all ends, beyond the plot summaries given in the articles). —Dinoguy1000 16:34, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: Headers on episode lists

This is to inform you that I've moved the discussion about episode headers in episode lists from my talk page over to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tokusatsu for wider discussion. --Farix (Talk) 22:49, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for the heads up! I'm probably gonna step out of the conversation, really, I don't have much of anything to add at this point. —Dinoguy1000 19:16, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Bingo!

Here you are! Visit http://www.avatarspiritmedia.net/episode_guide.php now! You can read it! Remember to award me a barnstar (Haha, just joking, but you can award one if you like) and happy reading! Also, how do you add the status indicator on the top of your page? Please reply on my talkpage. Thanks.--Mark Chung (talk) 04:53, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Interesting... but, truth be told, I'd rather actually watch the episodes. I'm gonna have to save up some money to buy the DVD box sets and then have a little marathon... ^_^ —Dinoguy1000 18:43, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

RE: Talk:List of InuYasha episodes

Sorry, I hadn't noticed the change, but it isn't really split, they just made more pages and put the descriptions of the episodes there. That's why I didn't notice. --IdLoveOne (talk) 04:52, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

~popping in~ That is what is meant by splitting an episode list here. A set of episodes is moved to a separate list with its own introduction, while the main list has just the bare facts (titles, airdates, etc), an overall lead, and links off to the individual lists. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 05:04, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

(partly answering to test new sig ;P ) Thanks for the explanation, Collectonian. I'm curious to know what your definition of a split is, IdLoveOne... 「ダイノガイ千？！」 05:22, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

re:signature

Writing Dinoguy1000 in Japanese would probably be "ダイノガイ１０００／千" (You can use the Arabic numerals, or the Kanji for 1000). The way you have it would be pronounced "Deenoguy Sen"which I believe is not the wanted pronunciation. Happy New-Year! moocowsrule^{(Talk to Moo)} 23:27, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Well that would be pronounced "Di (like in DInner)-no-guy". moocowsrule^{(Talk to Moo)} 23:29, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Okay, how is it now? If I'm right, the kana you provided would result in a pronunciation of Da-i-no-guy (or gai, what I was aiming for), which is how I wanted it to work out. 「ダイノガイ千？！」 20:31, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

That would be pronounced how you want it "Die-no-guy"... モーモー^?_{talk to moo} 21:28, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, considering (at least to my ear) there's no significant difference between "dai" and "die", yup. (BTW, did my own sig change spur yours, or are you just playing around with it more? ;) ) 「ダイノガイ千？！」 21:31, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorta both. My sig means "Mōmō", which is the sound cows make in Japanese. モーモー^?_{talk to moo} 04:24, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Just remember to put your name in Latin characters as well:). G.A.S^talk 14:06, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Gah, you would have to say that, considering my sig is already as long as is permitted by the field... =P XD I guess I'll just cut the explicit blue color from ダイノ, since blue is the default link color anyways (but then I'll end up with the purple "visited" color T~T )... 「ダイノガイ千？！」 18:12, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Okay, how's this, G.A.S? 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:14, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Some code optimisation should do the trick... I'll have a look later. G.A.S^talk 20:44, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't know, the code I use in my sig is very straightforward (though now that I think about it, I should move that last closing span tag):

<span style="white-space: nowrap;">「[[User:Dinoguy1000|ダイノ]]
[[User talk:Dinoguy1000|<span style="color: #080; font-weight: normal;">ガイ</span>]]
[[Special:Contributions/Dinoguy1000|<span style="color: #F90;">千</span>]]？！」</span>
<sup>(Dinoguy1000)</sup>

「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 21:06, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

You can just have your computer not record you history, that gets rid of all the purple links (which I find extremely annoying :/). モーモー^?_{talk to moo} 19:58, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

I've gotten away with using non-Latin sigs by just adding a section to my extremely wonderful and beautiful userpage XD. モーモー^?_{talk to moo} 20:01, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Help!!!

Ikki Tousen recently got moved to Ikki Tōsen by a newer user, and then he just copied and pasted all the stuff into the other Ikki Tousen page after I told him his mistake... And now we need someone who will merge the old pages history into the new pages history, or delete the page, and like I dunno. Something D: モーモー^?_{talk to moo} 20:03, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

*sigh* I'll talk to Sephiroth... 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 20:17, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD< BIG goof-up. I moved Ikki Tousen to Battle Vixens under the impression that that article was about the manga which turned into the anime, but it appears that that article is about the anime which was from the manga? I dunno, but I messed up D: モーモー^?_{talk to moo} 20:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Nah, your move was valid, though I personally would have waited until the improper move got resolved. In any case, the primary media is the manga, therefore the article needs to be rewritten to focus on it primarily. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 20:33, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Done. Hopefully I got that right. To Moocowsrule, slow down. That is all. — sephiroth bcr ^(converse) 20:36, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm really sorry! But it just made no sense that the article was about the anime, and not the manga... モーモー^?_{talk to moo} 20:38, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Uh... Dinoguy... Please see User talk:Sephiroth BCR#Ikki Tousen cut'n'paste move.................. モーモー^?_{talk to moo} 20:42, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Eh? You mean you're not a girl? Sorry then, that would be my bad... You just always struck me as female (don't feel too bad, I mistook Collectonian for a guy for awhile (something that many people seem to do)). DX ROFLMFAO XD 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 20:47, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

XD it's fine... But I do seem to get that a lot :/ モーモー^?_{talk to moo} 20:59, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

It may be something you want to point out on your userpage somewhere, so you have something to point to in the future. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 21:02, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

BTW, the talk page is still located at Talk:Ikki Tōsen... I tried to move it, but evidently, Talk:Battle Vixens has some history beyond a redirect, and the server screwiness today is seriously hampering my attempts to investigate (I just get a "This page has no history" message). 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 20:47, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Yep, Talk:Ikki Tōsen needs to be moved back to Talk:Battle Vixens. Admin will have to do due to the double actions earlier...-- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 20:51, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

So then we want it to be Battle Vixens? I'm confused... モーモー^?_{talk to moo} 20:58, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Yep. And trust me, this is nowhere near as bad as trying to sort out Earl Cain was... =P 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 21:02, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi, my name is

I saw your name translation page on Jimbo's. I added a some ancient greek to yours, which is the only language that I know very well. My knowledge of several other languages is limited (I could certainly write your name in hieroglyphics, for example, though I doubt that I could puzzle out "Hello, my name is" in Egyptian). If I get a chance in the next few days, I'll might add a little more...hopefully someone else can fill in the rest. Cheers, SU Linguist (talk) 23:57, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Cool, add anything you want. ;) If you're not sure about how to say "Hi, my name is" in a certain language, you can just transcribe/translate my name, and add a hidden note stating that it's only my name written out. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:11, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Re-added the link to the live-action film section on the Robotech article to Template:Robotech

Sorry, I reverted your removal of the link, since I believe it will make it much much easier to navigate for people interested only in recent developments of the live action project and not the whole Robotech article, which is very long I must add.Kronnang Dunn (talk) 09:22, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

I can understand why you think this, but it's ultimately an issue with the Robotech article (which needs a massive overhaul, BTW) and not the navbox. Section links are never put in animanga series navboxes, regardless of the reason. In addition, the link you've been adding is improperly escaped for a link between pages - it should be [[Robotech#Live-action film (proposed)|Robotech Live-Action Film]], not [[Robotech#Live-action_film_.28proposed.29|Robotech Live-Action Film]]. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:19, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Maison Ikkoku

thx for your editing. Well i would like to type sinopsys for each chapter. And some unnumbered because in my manga version, there a chapter that's not shown on English (US) version. --Landavia (talk) 16:04, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Hmm... are you talking about the edits I made last June, or perhaps about List of Maison Ikkoku chapters? We don't have per-chapter synopses here, we do them for each volume. Which manga version do you have? I only have limited access to part of the series, so there's only so much I can do... One last thing, just out of curiosity, is English your native language? 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:23, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Re:c/p move

Done. To whoever is perpetuating this insanity on those pages, please trout slap some sense into them. It's getting ridiculous at this point. — sephiroth bcr ^(converse) 07:32, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure it was the same user (a new one), at the same time... In any case, some guidance is certainly justified. Thanks for taking care of this, in any case. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 07:35, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

In response to your "Chronicles of the Curse Sword" message...

Since Madman Entertainment publishes plenty of manwha and OEL as well as manga, I propose that the current category be renamed "Madman Entertainment manga, manwha and OEL". In fact, I'd do it myself if I knew how. What do you think? Mark Lungo (talk) 01:05, 30 December 2008 (UTC)Mark Lungo

Nope, that won't work. Manga and manwha are too different from each other (and, but the same token, so is MIC) for a single category to cover them all. However, if there is a sufficient number of manhwa and MIC titles, you could create individual "Madman Entertainment manhwa" and "Madman Entertainment OEL manga" categories (you may want to ask about that last name). Could you give me (or point me to) a list of manhwa and MIC series that Madman has licensed and that have their own articles? —Dinoguy1000 17:51, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Dear Dinoguy: Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. Anyway, the best place to get a list of all Madman's publications, manga and otherwise, is http://www.madman.com.au/actions/catalogue.do?method=browse&webChannelId=12&sortKey=3&rental=0&complete=complete&releaseTypeId=3, which lists them all in alphabetical order. Unfortunately for your purposes, the Madman site makes no distinction between manga, manwha and OEL material. However, most of their publications have Wikipedia articles, so at least you can learn what you need to know that way. (Oh, and what does MIC mean?) Mark Lungo (talk) 23:46, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Don't worry about your response speed, I've been plenty busy lately with some other projects. That's bad to hear about them making no distinction between manga, manhwa, and MIC (that's [manga|manhwa|manhua]-influenced comics, by the way, a more generic, source- and language-neutral term for OEL manga), but not particularly surprising. I'll try to get a ballpark figure when I have some time, more than likely the creation of one or more additional categories may be justified. In addition, a List of Madman Entertainment publications may need to be created, similar to List of Tokyopop publications. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 00:00, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the response! Please let me know if and when the new Madman categories are started. Mark Lungo (talk) 00:26, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, you can start them if you want... All that's really necessary is more than about 5 articles to put in them (more than 10 or 15 would be even better ;) ). 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:19, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Twinkle help

Hey Dinoguy -

You were very helpful back when I made a bug report (which turned out not to be a bug report) about how I could not use twinkle without it adding all the pages i touched to my watchlist. I was wondering if you could just finish that thought, because I can't find any good documentation on this. I've added importScript('User:AzaToth/twinkle.js') to my monobook.js file... but how can I now configure Twinkle's behavior? Whenever I simply add all the fields Twinkle does crazy things.. like not be able to CSD anymore. Thanks so much for the help. FlyingToaster 09:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, I'm not really sure how much help I can be, since I use Twinkle via the gadget myself... Forgive me for asking the obvious, but have you read through the settings documentation yet? It could probably help you more than I could. If I recall correctly, there have also been similar discussions on WT:TW or WT:TW/BUGS, you may want to glance through the archives and see if you can find anything. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:36, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Award for You

		The Bright Idea Barnstar
		For phrasing the most sensible idea yet in the List of Gundam Universal Century mobile units discussion. じんない 01:54, 11 January 2009 (UTC)SU Linguist 14:03, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Awesome, my first barnstar! Thanks a bundle! ^_^ 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:24, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Lightmouse date scripts

• I see you operate date script written by Lightmouse: A discussion at Lightmouse's house may be of interest to you. Ohconfucius (talk) 09:53, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up... It's an interesting idea, but like most people, I don't feel particularly strongly about it (though that's probably mostly because I don't run any bots, I don't normally deal with ENGVAR issues, and WP:ANIME has a preferred date format anyways). 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:30, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

List of Reborn! episodes

This comment refers: Why do you say that the list is not "List class", since 3 of the tables are transcluded, and there is little content besides that, which is in tabular format anyway? G.A.S^talk 05:13, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Hmm... That's actually a pretty good question. If I recall correctly, when I originally looked at the list, I missed the links out to the season subpages, and the tables looked like normal tables without episode summaries - I also missed the alternating row colors. In short, I completely screwed up (looked for a link for that, but couldn't find one that's appropriate). >_< Feel free to correctly reassess the list as list-class. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:52, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Featured List

Hi Dinoguy1000! I've been working on a list, List of Ah My Goddess episodes (season 1), and I put it up for FLC. However, Dabomb87 (talk · contribs) and Collectonian (talk · contribs) have both commented that the list is in dire need of a copyedit and Dabomb pointed me in your direction. Would it be possible for you to do a copyedit for this list? Thanks! (I'm also asking Sephiroth BCR (talk · contribs)). NOCTURNENOIR ^{( m • t • c )} 20:50, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

I may do one of the lead if I have time, but I don't usually venture into plot summaries, and doubly so here, since I just started reading the manga (don't want spoiled, and all that...). ;) 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 20:53, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

In that case, don't worry about it... The episode summaries are the issue at hand. Enjoy the manga and let me know how it is (as I've only seen the anime)! NOCTURNENOIR ^{( m • t • c )} 20:58, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Will do (though I'm actually starting out with the novel)... Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but if it's any consolation, I have been planning to do work on the chapter list (which is what I specialize in anyways). ^_^ 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 21:01, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Haha, sounds good! If I was willing to spend more time with this anime, I'd work to get this into a Featured Topic after you did your chapter list, but I think I need a break from this one... It's too... chipper... NOCTURNENOIR ^{( m • t • c )} 21:05, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, I don't know about FL, but I do know how to ratchet up the general quality of chapter lists (it's not that hard, really, depending on the publishers - I love working on stuff from Kodansha, Viz Media, and Del Rey Manga, but Tokyopop, on the other hand...). 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 21:11, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Volume 2 of the manga (Leader of the Pack) is in my library system, but isn't actually available! Waaaaah! *big sweatdrops* 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:11, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

You're lucky your library system even has them. I have to go purchase all of the stuff myself (or *gasp* rely on online translations). NOCTURNENOIR ^{( t • c )} 19:20, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: novels and the Animanga Project

Just so there's no further confusion, all novels fall within the scope of WP:NOVELS (See User talk:Kevinalewis#Question on Japanese novels). Look at it this way: if the franchise started with a novel, we should tag it with WP:NOVELS' banner (The Twelve Kingdoms). If it began as anime or manga and the novel came afterwards, then WP:NOVELS' banner isn't necessary and WP:ANIME's banner will suffice (Death Note).--Nohansen (talk) 23:20, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

I assume you're talking about this diff, in which case I got a bit carried away cutting banners that were redundant to the animanga banner (in addition to not being overly familiar with the series). On a semi-related note, just what is the difference between a novel and a light novel? Looking over their articles wasn't very revealing for me, and I don't think I've ever seen the difference clearly stated. --Dinoguy1000 as 66.116.24.177 (talk) 23:42, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Light novels are, basically, young adult novels. Different target demographic and different writing style to "regular" novels. Nothing special.--Nohansen (talk) 00:12, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Alright, cool. Is there any general rule-of-thumb that can be used to tell the difference when you're looking at one (or does the difference actually even matter that much, even to the animanga project or the novels project)? And back to the original conversation, this would mean that if a franchise started out as a non-anime television show or non-manga comic, it should be tagged with the TVproj or Comicsproj banner, respectively, right? 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:08, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

You can tell which novels are "light" by their publisher (Category:Light novel labels). Most people tell light novels apart from regular novels because the books usually have "manga-styled" picture inserts.

About the banners: I think you got it. All TV shows fall within the scope of WP:TV and all comics fall within the scope of WP:COMICS. Manga titles aren't usually tagged with WP:COMICS' banner because WP:MANGA is sort of an offspring of WP:COMICS, making the Comics banner redundant.--Nohansen (talk) 19:38, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Peeves

Thanks for the help with my peeves list! It reads much better now! --Kraftlos (Talk | Contrib) 06:37, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

No problem. ;) I like taking time out every now and then to do something like that, that isn't really related to the project - it's a nice change of pace. =) 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 16:03, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Background color in transcluded episodes

Hi, I've got a small problem at List of One Piece episodes#Season 9. There's a few omake episodes in between the normal ones. They're throwing off the background color alternation. You got any idea how to handle that? Thanks in advance. -- Goodraise (talk) 12:36, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Wow, that's not good... Unfortunately, the background color is determined by the episode number's parity, so there's no simple override method for it, and I'm loath to add any parameters to the template just for that purpose. Do these omakes have to be listed inline with the regular episodes? 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 12:40, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, I suppose they could be listed seperately... Or I could exclude them from the transclusion... Doesn't make me too happy, but I guess it'll have to do. Thanks anyways. -- Goodraise (talk) 12:53, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Love Hina

Based on your recent edits to the group of articles, can I assume you are a fan? Fancy helping me rewrite List of Love Hina characters? I've made a start, but I'm not so good on the writing. Adding references on the other hand I can do :p As I'm planning to do this as I reread the series, reading, writing and referencing all at the same time is a bit too much for me! I'm grateful for any help you can provide Dandy Sephy (talk) 13:57, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm a fan of Love Hina (and pretty much anything of Akamatsu's in general... I really wish I could get ahold of volume 8 of Negima!), but I don't do much work on character lists or articles beyond vandalism patrol (and I don't have ready access to the series, either)... Sorry to disappoint you. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 14:01, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm having a job making a decision on the Love Hina article. Currently the article states there are 118 chapters, which is not entirely accurate as there are 118 numbered chapters plus the two epilogue chapters. However I haven't changed it because I'm not sure if it was serialized as 118 chapters and had the epilogue added for volume 14, or if it was serialised as 118 chapters plus the epilogue either as the 118 ended, or weeks/months later. The serilisation apparently ran exactly 3 years, but thats 156weeks for 120 chapters...

Any ideas? Currently there is no source in use that specifically refers to 118 chapters, although I can tweak the existing vol14 reference to reflect the 120 chapters. Adding to the confusion I've seen a scanlation that has the 2nd epilogue chapter as Number 123! I think some of the chapters were combined for the volume or split for other markets (vol14 has 3 chapters that are double-size) Dandy Sephy (talk) 04:55, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I know even less about Love Hina's serialization than you do... I don't speak Japanese (though I would really like to learn), and I don't have access to anything but the English T-pop version (and even that, I have to request). You could probably say something like "the series ran for 118 chapters, with a two-chapter epilogue" until you manage to find out more... 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:26, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

List of Dragon Ball characters

Guess Collectonian wasn't able to fix that ref. Would you happen to recall the page where you last saw something like that? Please reply below, Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 05:15, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm not seeing the problem, myself... the page where I originally saw nested refs was List of New Cutie Honey episodes (specifically this note), and the explanatory page is Wikipedia:Footnotes#Separating reference lists and explanatory notes (and for my own sanity/reference, the discussion where I pointed it out to Collectonian is at User talk:Collectonian/Archive 14#Refs within refs (or notes)). 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 17:50, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Jojo's English release

I'm working on adding these titles today (and probably tomorrow) - but I don't have the English release, and can't verify we're using the official names for the characters and chapters. Volume titles do appear on Viz's website, handily. You wouldn't happen to have those handy, would you? Doceirias (talk) 05:33, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Actually, I've already confirmed all the English info for volumes 1-5. However, volume 5 was as far as I could get (vols 7-9 are also available to me (via request at my local library), but volumes 6 and 10 are not). 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:03, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

List of Suzuka chapters

Why was the volumes summaries cut in the List of Suzuka chapters page? (Duane543 (talk) 05:18, 31 January 2009 (UTC))

Per the edit summary, they were WP:COPYVIOs, i.e. they appear to be copied from some other site/place. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 05:44, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Specifically, they were translated copies of summaries on Weekly Shōnen Magazine's website (see for example this edit summary). Even if that wasn't the case, though, they had major tone issues. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 17:17, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing that up because at first I thought it was removed just because it was a summary. (Duane543 (talk) 18:46, 31 January 2009 (UTC))

No problem. I would never remove a summary just because it's a summary; in fact, to reach FL status, (well-written) summaries are required. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:48, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Nav box

While I can understand the studios, I have seen a number of ones that deal with games and anime use such in their templates, including those that have a lot of FA/GA articles, and the primary work is the visual novel.じんない 18:32, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Hmm... I must confess, I've never worked with video game navboxes, so I really don't know how they are typically formatted. Is there a sort of "go-to" editor for VG navboxes (much like how myself and G.A.S are the resident animanga navbox "experts") I could talk to, or some good examples you could point me to? 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:41, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

The one i used is based around Air (visual novel) and checked out a few others, just to make certain. It isn't excatly the same, but it's close. O just seperated the staff into production staff and VA staff.じんない 18:47, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

You're talking about {{Key}}, aren't you? The problem with that one is that it's a navbox for a company, which by necessity will work differently than a navbox for a series or franchise. In Popotan's case you could recast the navbox as a general one for the company, but you'll have to look around and see if any of the company's other works already have navboxes (or, indeed, if the company itself already has one). If this is the case, whether and how you generalize {{Popotan}} will depend on the state of the other navboxes. If you feel up to this, go ahead and list here anything you turn up, and I should be able to help you with it. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:54, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

The company itself on produced Popotan and various offshoots of it before it collapsed, but it licensed the product out so that is why so many distributors were listed. I'm not sure how to do that because some of the names listed there I think should be because they are known for working with the game or, to a lesser extent for some, the anime specifically.じんない 18:59, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

All right. To be honest, I'm really not sure what the best way to handle this would be, then; perhaps it would be better to ask at WT:VG? 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 19:03, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Probably, can you ask and explain the problem? I have to go to work here in a minute. Either that or it'll have to wait till tomorrow. Just whatever you happens if people think a radical restructuring is needed, I'd rather be able to defend it before anything is seriously altered. If it's minor, then that's okay.じんない 19:11, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I don't have time to ask, either. Don't worry about the navbox going anywhere in the meantime, there is no deadline for its removal or reuse. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 19:13, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Posted on WT:VG#Template:Popotan and other than some cleanup, no one has bothered to comment.じんない 23:24, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up, I've commented there. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 23:33, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Well I removed the VAs. I kept the production staff as 2 of the 3 are especially notable because of the VN/anime. My main problem though is I'm wondering how I should deal with the anime. The anime is not produced by Petit Ferret, but by Shaft and most nav boxes that list companies are not made to handle such a situation. Since Petit Ferret only produced 1 series of games, all on that page, it is also appropriate to link to them.じんない 11:51, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Script-assisted date delinking

Dinoguy1000, I saw you had posted on User:Lightmouse's talk page regarding a date delinking script developed by Lightmouse. In case you are not aware there is an open request for arbitration regarding date delinking. As part of the case, there is a temporary injunction against automated or script-assisted date delinking. I did not see anything resembling script-assisted date delinking in a cursory glance at your contribution history, but wanted to let you know of this injunction. If you are aware of this injunction already, please accept my apologies for a redundant notice. — Bellhalla (talk) 20:38, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

I am aware of the injunction, and from my cursory glances through it and related comments, it seems to me that it restricts mass date [de]linking edits, as opposed to ones on individual articles. If I am mistaken in this notion, though, I wouldn't mind a corrective note before I get into any real trouble. =) I have used the script before (even after I became aware of the injunction), and it's not something I just casually use. Regardless, though, thanks for your concern! ^_^ 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 20:46, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Correct, the injunction is not against all editors (otherwise the script itself would have been deactivated, but Lightmouse's mass use of it (or a bot) to do it). :-) -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 20:50, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Just so long as you are aware of it. No implication of any wrong-doing should be inferred from the post above. :) — Bellhalla (talk) 21:16, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Psst....

...how do you get those hide/show links in your infoboxes on your user pages? -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 04:42, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

I hacked together a nice little table (that probably wouldn't hurt from some updating). Have a look at the source of User:Dinoguy1000/UBX/lists/meta. ;) 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 05:25, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Fay vs. Fai on Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle

sorry, But I'd like to ask that you refrain from changing FaI's name to FaY on Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle. His official English name is "Fai", and that is what is used in the anime by |FUNimation's official Tsubasa website under characters. Note that further changes to "FaY" will be reverted as vandalism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dragonmaster88 (talk • contribs) 23:54, 2 February 2009

Copied and replied on your talk page. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 06:15, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

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Re:Categorization of anime and manga year categories

Hello, I've just updated Template:Manga by decade category header and Template:Anime by decade category header to automatically categorize the transcluded categories into Category:Manga by decade of first release, Category:Anime by decade of first release, Category:Manga by year of first release, and Category:Anime by year of first release in response to your recent work doing so manually (well, using AWB). I was wondering if you could now remove these categories from the manga and anime by year categories, since the template now automatically categorizes them? Thanks in advance! —Dinoguy1000 20:57, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Duh! I wish I'd thought of that first. I'll just go revert those edits, then. Thanks. --Eliyak T·C 03:32, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

On second glance, the "by year" categories will have minor sorting issues if the template is used as is. They would all sort under "M," and would not necessarily be in the correct order. --Eliyak T·C 03:44, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Hmm... those issues should be easy enough to fix. Let me have a look at the templates' source and do something with the sortkeys (actually, this may be a good time to deploy a different parameter format for inputting the year, similar to {{Bookyr}}, which would greatly simplify the template coding... if I did this, could you make an AWB run to update all the transclusions for me?). —Dinoguy1000 18:42, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Actually, now that I think on it more, I should be able to consolidate both templates into one and make it automatically include several categories and the message stating what the category covers. I'll have to start a sandbox for it, though... —Dinoguy1000 17:54, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

You should have a look at Category:Chronology categories navbox templates. I recently dumped a bunch of similar templates in there. If you need an AWB run, I could do that. --Eliyak T·C 01:19, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

I might poke around there for inspiration, but I'll probably do most of the work off the top of my head. Hopefully, I'll have something cooked up that's functional and ready to be deployed tonight. 「ダイノガイ千？！」 05:24, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Have a look at User:Dinoguy1000/Sandbox/Animanga by decade category header - any thoughts, or do you think it's ready to deploy (I can pretty easily turn the original templates into wrappers for this one, for the benefit of anyone looking through page histories)? 「ダイノガイ千？！」 06:47, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

The reason I pointed to that category is that I thought there might be a generic template that does what you are looking for. {{WorksYearHeader}} and {{Cat topic in year}} are close, but the syntax is a little off. If you can't find a generic, why not create one? Yours is already close. --Eliyak T·C 17:04, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for generic templates wherever possible. However, in this case, I don't think there are any generic templates that can handle these categories, because of how they are tied together. I know mine is quite close to being a generic template, I intentionally design my templates (and programs, when I feel like hacking around on my graphing calculator) to be as general as feasible. It would be quite simple to further generalize my template to work with most of the cases on Wikipedia, but I'm not sure if allowing navigation between centuries (and millenia, for extreme cases) would be so simple without implementing additional parameters. In any case, I'm only worried about my template working for its intended use, I can work on generalizing it further (or retooling one of the existing metatemplates) later. BTW, I just invited User:Nihonjoe to have a look at the new template and comment here; he's previously asked for my assistance on these templates. 「ダイノガイ千？！」 20:47, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

This looks good to me. Will you create a doc page describing the variables which need to be set? That will allow for better evaluation of the template, IMO. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 00:47, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

More likely, I'll just document it directly on the template, just as the current ones do, because I'm helplessly lazy. XD However, I've got a couple of thoughts before deployment (though these could wait till afterwards to be addressed): How are we going to handle the eventual creation of Category:Anime of the 2010s and Category:Manga of the 2010s in the decade row (the year row can already handle 2010 and beyond), and should we link to Category:Anime (year of release missing) and Category:Manga (year of release missing) (and if so, how should we link (I was actually thinking something along the lines of "Missing year of release: Manga - Anime"))? I had another thought or two, but I forgot overnight... Oh well. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:22, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

I think your idea for the missing year links is good. Just put it below the Decades section, and you could even have a switch which only shows the appropriate one, based on if someone entered "Manga" or "Anime" into the template. I've made comments over on the template talk page, too. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 02:54, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, considering the (small) amount of space it would take up, I don't see why we couldn't leave both links in... And perhaps it might work on the same row as the "see also" link? 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:18, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Barring the above issues (which are trivial at the moment), the template is ready to be deployed, so I went ahead and moved it to Template:Animanga by year category header. I would appreciate it if you could notify me of any categories, interwiki links, or text on the categories that are not inserted by the template (that would actually be any interwiki links since the template doesn't insert any, but it would still be nice to have a census of what categories have them). 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 23:18, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Looks good to me. Well done! --Eliyak T·C 16:30, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Just out of curiosity, when do you plan on making the AWB run? 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:23, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

*nudge* You didn't forget, did you? ;) 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:14, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

I didn't forget, but my computer does not seem to want to run AWB anymore. I don't know exactly why this is, but perhaps you could find someone else to do this? Sorry to back out on you. --Eliyak T·C 10:59, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

That's fine, no worries. G.A.S stepped up to do it (as you can see), and it's not like we're working with a WP:DEADLINE, after all. =) 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:25, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

If you tell me what needs to be done, I will have a look. G.A.S^talk 11:13, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Let's see... the instructions for actually using the template are on its page, so that should be pretty straightforward. In addition to the navibox, the template automatically inserts a lead and several categories, so they need to be removed as you're going through. If you come across any categories that are not automatically added, or any interwikis, these should be left alone, and if you could make a list of all of them as well, I'd greatly appreciate it. The same thing if you come across a lead that is reasonably different from the inserted one. If you need anything more specific, just ask. ;) 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:25, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Episode list colors

Hi. Episode 12.5 from List of Ah! My Goddess episodes (season 1) is causing issues on List of Oh My Goddess! episodes when transcluded; the colors are not properly alternated. At Wikipedia:Peer review/List of Oh My Goddess! episodes/archive1, Goodraise (talk · contribs) told me to complain (heh) to you about it, so here I am. My guess is that 12.5 doesn't register as either an even or an odd number and therefore messes with the coloring, but I'm not entirely sure how to fix this. Thanks for your help! NOCTURNENOIR ^{( t • c )} 20:15, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Yep, I'm the person to complain to, and I'm also aware of the problem in general (I've been asked about it in regards to one or two season sublists of List of One Piece episodes). The problem here is that {{Japanese episode list/sublist}} automagically determines the row's background color based on the parity of EpisodeNumber, so stuff like "12.5" wreaks absolute havoc with the color alternation (however, if handled proerly, stuff like "OVA3" should work fine). Unfortunately, there is no way the template can automatically fix this, although I could add a parameter to switch the background color for the individual episode it's used on (which would mean you'd have to use the parameter on all subsequent episodes). Actually, it may not be a bad idea to ask about doing just that at Template talk:Japanese episode list (crossposting to Template talk:Episode list, WT:ANIME, and WT:TV, of course)... For the moment, though, I'm guessing that preventing episode 12.5 from transcluding wouldn't work for the PR? 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 23:12, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm going to have to transclude it either way because it's part of the series, right? In any case, an extra parameter would be nice. Let me know if I can help in this regard, as I'd love to learn some more about tables and templates on Wikipedia. NOCTURNENOIR ^{( t • c )} 02:32, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Probably. I don't really need help adding the parameter, though suggestions on a name would be nice... You can ask me about specific stuff you've been wondering about, though. Other than that, if you've got a head for code (and specifically wikimarkup), I'd say the best way to further your knowledge of tables and templates is to just dive into templates and see how they do what they do, and then to play around in a subpage of your userspace - this is how I learned most of what I know about the wikimarkup. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:18, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

I saw that you do show-specific "hacks" so I was wondering if it would be a good idea to do the same in this instance. NOCTURNENOIR ^{( t • c )} 23:17, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Huh? Me, make show-specific hacks? Nope, all those were done by other people (most before I created the /sublist generalization); I just haven't bothered to switch most of them over yet (in the case if the {{Episode list}} hacks). 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:13, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

I couldn't take it anymore and came up with a fix. Episodes which would break the color alternation now simply use {{japanese episode list/sublist|transclusion target|NeutralTopColor}}, like this. The result looks like this. -- Goodraise (talk) 20:43, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Wow, good work, Goodraise! It worked on List of Oh My Goddess! episodes as well, so I think we're all good now. Thanks! NOCTURNENOIR ^{( t • c )} 21:54, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Pretty nice, actually. I'm not really that crazy about the colors used (the "neutral" shade seems like it should be the one used throughout the lists), but you can safely ignore my reservations. ;) In any case, the neutral color idea (one that I actually considered) is definitely simpler than swapping the colors for every row. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:13, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

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WP:ANIME/CLEANUP#Non-article projects Template cleanup

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G.A.S^talk 16:19, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Replied there. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 19:26, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Expanded some... (notifying you since you seem to be online...) G.A.S^talk 05:02, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Yep, I'm here... I'll have a look in a minute. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 05:04, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Have you seen this reply? The automatic list is improving, albeit slowly. G.A.S^talk 05:57, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Yep, I have. Just don't really have anything further to add at this time. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 19:40, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Konnichiwa!

Konbanwa! Un, boku mo sukoshi nihongo ga wakarimasu! ( did I spell it right? I would write it in hiragana, but I'm not able on this keyboard :-/) Doozo yoroshiku ^^ --Brisk 90 (talk) 14:06, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello, Brisk! (I actually had to look at your talk page to remember who you were... sorry about that... ^_^;; ) Unfortunately, I speak even less Japanese (as in: almost none) than I do Spanish, so actually I have almost no idea what you just said... If I had to guess, though, you said something about speaking Japanese, right? (since "nihongo" is Japanese for "Japanese"...) 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:09, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

LOL, then the sentence makes no sense since I wrote I could understand a bit of Japanese "as you do" :p--Brisk 90 (talk) 18:52, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Heh, sorry for messing that up on you... ;P Actually, though, if you look on my userpage, I have a WP:BABEL userbox that says I can't speak Japanese (assuming you can find it... you may have a better time looking here). 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:57, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Reason for revert

Care giving reasons for reverts maybe? (Concerning http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jimbo_Wales/In_many_languages...&action=history) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.159.123.241 (talk • contribs) 18:52, 12 February 2009

Your language addition ("Eastwoodian") is basically nonsense - you could add any number of similar variants based on other films, as well as television series, novels, comics, etc. Your addition to German, "Jim Striemen", has no explanation and sounds too much like an actual English name. And changing "whatever" to "whateva" in the Valspeak entry... actually, that one may be okay, but I take issue with that entry (and a number of others) anyways. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 19:45, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Re:History merge

Don't think a history merge is necessary. The current content at List of Shaman King chapters doesn't exactly duplicate your material, and if you simply post your material into the article, the GFDL is followed as you were the sole contributor to your own draft. — sephiroth bcr ^(converse) 21:37, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Eh, all right... No problem. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 21:44, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Series finale

I defy you to name a single show from non-English speaking countries that has gotten worldwide attention or acclaim. There are simply some mediums in which it's USA/UK and that's it. Can you name a single series finale from Brazil that got the attention that, say, Cheers or MASH did? JAF1970 (talk) 06:19, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Why should a show have to receive "worldwide attention or acclaim" (which I would dispute for most of the entries on that list anyways) in order to be included there? It should be sufficient for the show to garner significant attention in its language; attention in other languages would be a bonus. I guarantee you'll find plenty of anime series whose finales have received significant attention, although sourcing them would be quite a bit harder than for English programs. Do not confuse lots of attention in the English-speaking world for "worldwide attention" - how many foreign-language sources exist for Cheers or M*A*S*H, for instance? That being said, the whole list has a bit of an WP:INDISCRIMINATE feel to it IMHO. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 06:27, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Template:Infobox animanga overhaul

This is a draft for an overhaul conversation I've been mulling over for some time, but didn't start on until now because I never intended to start the actual discussion until after the new year. Right now, it's mostly just an outline, but that's because my mind goes blank when I try to write all the great stuff I thought out the day before. ;P Feel free to make suggestions, corrections, additions, etc. since this is a draft.

• {{Infobox animanga}} has been updated somewhat haphazardly over time, and as a result, there are many inconsistencies, redundancies, and gaps between components.
  • A lot of work has gone into eliminating inconsistencies, especially during the June 2008 update (See Template talk:Infobox animanga/Archive 3#Parameter names and Template talk:Infobox animanga/Archive 3#Parameter update for relevant discussions). However, a comprehensive look at the template and a concentrated effort to eliminate as many inconsistencies, redundancies, and gaps as possible has never been attempted.
• Currently, {{Infobox animanga}} covers several media types and release formats. However, the exact format is becoming increasingly irrelevant, particularly in relation to the release format, in terms of both the initial Japanese release and of release abroad. Therefore, the infobox needs to be rethought from the ground up.
  • Hetalia Axis Powers started out as a webcomic which is now being collected into tankōbon volumes, and the series has been adapted into an anime series to be released more-or-less simultaneously on television (until the TV broadcast was canceled), the internet, and to cell phones - thankfully, the series hasn't been licensed yet.
  • FLCL, which was initially released as an OVA in Japan, has been repeatedly aired on television (specifically on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block) in the United States. However, because the OVA component does not have any network parameters, this cannot currently be covered in the infobox.
  • Media covered by WikiProject Anime and manga can be split into three main categories, each of which can be further split (these further divisions may overlap between the main three categories).
    • The first category covers the type of the media - whether it's television/film, book/printed, audio, or video game. There is occasionally some overlap here, almost always of video games having anime clips, but this is inconsequential and can be ignored.
    • The second category covers the means of production, and largely relates to television/film - in this category are televised anime series, OVAs, ONAs, television anime specials, anime films, live-action television series, live-action films, and anything else which could conceivably be aired on television, shown in a theater, or distributed via VHS, DVD, Blu-ray Disc or other formats. It mostly distinguishes between live-action and animated works. Amongst printed works, manga, novels, and light novels are distinguished from each other. Audio works are distinguished between one-time dramas and regular programs.
    • The third category covers the initial method of distribution, and depending on the type of the media (the first category), different methods could be extremely trivial (manga being serialized versus published in tankōbon format) or very important (anime OVAs typically have much better production values than televised anime series). The "initial" is to be stressed here, since the same series may end up being distributed in multiple ways - for instance, an anime series may initially be televised, and later released to VHS, DVD, or some other format; when it gets licensed for translation and distribution in another country, it may instead be released directly to VHS or DVD, or it may be streamed online free or for a cost, or via other means (for instance, over Xbox Live). See the above examples.
      • In television/film, the main divisions here are between televised productions, direct-to-video productions (OVAs and original DVD animations), productions distributed via the internet (ONAs), and productions released to theaters (almost always films).
      • In printed media, the main distinction is between those productions that get serialized in a magazine (typically weekly, but several are monthly, seasonal, or follow other schedules) and those that get directly published in tankōbon format, though it's important to remember that almost without exception, those series which are originally serialized get published in tankōbon volumes eventually. One-shots can also be distinguished here, but these typically don't have independent notability, and there are few instances where they even get mentioned in articles beyond the author's.
      • In audio media, the distinction is between radio programs and programs released directly to CD, though there may be other release formats.
  • Currently, {{Infobox animanga}} covers several of these, but not all, and some of them are duplicated between components:
    • {{Infobox animanga/Manga}} covers manga series, whether they're serialized or published in tankōbon format; it also covers one-shots, but there is no specialized parameter for distinguishing these.
    • {{Infobox animanga/Anime}} covers television anime series and TV films, although the distinction between TV films and the films covered by the film component which requires them to be supported here instead of in the film component is not clear. In addition, there is no specialized way of handling television anime specials such as Saint Elmo - Hikari no Raihousha, other than treating them as either one-episode TV anime series, or TV films, neither of which is accurate.
    • {{Infobox animanga/Film}} covers animated and live-action theatrical films; as noted above, there is no clear reason why it cannot also cover television films. This is the Infobox animanga-compatible version of {{Infobox Film}}, with many of the parameters stripped out; it may benefit from having most or all of these restored; particularly when merging articles on nonnotable films.
    • {{Infobox animanga/OVA}} covers original video animations, original net animations, and direct-to-video films; it could easily be merged into the anime and film components, which would reduce redundancy between components and resolve several other issues.
    • {{Infobox animanga/Drama}} covers television drama series and one-time TV drama specials or films. Other than that, it's largely identical to the anime component and could easily be merged there.
    • {{Infobox animanga/Audio}} covers audio dramas, both those broadcast over the radio and released directly to CD.
    • {{Infobox animanga/Game}} covers all video games. Like the film component, this is a greatly stripped-down and Infobox animanga-compatible version of {{Infobox VG}}, and may benefit from having many of these removed parameters restored, particularly when merging in articles on nonnotable video games.
    • {{Infobox animanga/Novel}} covers novels and light novels, and is the Infobox animanga-compatible version of {{Infobox Book}}. Like the film and video game components, this one may benefit from reviewing the main infobox template for additional parameters.

More to come later, as I work on this more. Feel free to comment or make corrections/additions! —Dinoguy1000 19:39, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

I've looked over this proposal and thought about the part suggesting a merger of the video and book components of {{Infobox animanga}}. I've done some prototyping in one of my sandboxes to check how feasible that proposal may be. You can see the results at User:TheFarix/Sandbox2. --Farix (Talk) 18:46, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Hmm... Looks pretty cool so far. If you want to contribute anything to this draft while you're at it, feel free... In any case, it'll be good to have some prototype templates when I finally finish this up and post it for general discussion. Based on your work so far, how much work do you think will be necessary to update the average article to the new format? 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 18:08, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Note: This has been copied to Template talk:Infobox animanga#Template consolidation. All additional comments and updates should be posted there. —Dinoguy1000 as 66.116.12.126 (talk) 22:02, 26 February 2009 (UTC)