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Welcome to WikiProject Anime and manga! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of anime and manga related articles; we hope that the suggestions on this page and its subpages will help focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you have any questions about the project, please feel free to ask them on our talk page or contact one of our participants.
For more information on WikiProjects, see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide.
Project scopeEdit
What topics we coverEdit
WikiProject Anime and manga's scope includes all topics related to anime and manga as well as all media, persons, organizations and fandom substantially related to any anime and manga franchise. This includes international subjects necessary for comprehensive coverage of the core topics.
- Anime, including television, OVAs, and animated films;
- Manga and light novels, including serials, such as Young King OURs, and collected volumes;
- Media belonging to the same franchises as the above, including video games, visual novels, live action versions, audio dramas, soundtracks, and stage shows and musicals (such as Tenimyu);
- Video games related to anime or manga are under a shared scope with WikiProject Video games;
- Visual novels, dating sims, bishojo games and other similar games regardless of whether they have a major anime or manga adaptation under a shared scope with the visual novels task force;
- Notable characters, episodes, issues, and merchandise of the above media;
- Directors (e.g. Hayao Miyazaki) and mangaka (such as Rumiko Takahashi) and other notable production staff;
- Japanese publishers and production studios (e.g., Shonen Gahosha and Gainax) and international distributors (such as ADV Films and Funimation Entertainment);
- Notable Japanese or international publications and websites meant for review and commentary of anime or manga (such as Newtype or Anime News Network);
- Voice actors, Japanese or international, whose principal work is in anime and whose roles are generally notable (such as Takehito Koyasu or Jessica Calvello); and
- Drama CDs, songs and soundtracks based on anime or manga are under either the shared scope of WikiProject Albums or WikiProject Discographies depending upon the nature of the article.
- Composers, bands and musicians based primarily around anime or manga are under either the shared scopes of WikiProject Composers or WikiProject Musicians.
- Major aspects of fandom: including conventions (e.g., Comiket or Otakon), terminology and concepts such as otaku, and other practices.
What topics we do not coverEdit
This project maintains an essential focus on anime, manga, and related merchandise originally meant for consumption in Japan. Therefore, its scope does not include works with incidental or minor association, including (but not limited to):
- Animated or printed works produced for consumption outside of Japan that nevertheless draw on or are similar to Japanese media in terms of content or form (such as Chinese animation, Korean animation, manhwa, manhua and Western manga-styled comics such as Gothic Sports and Peach Fuzz).
- Media, particularly video games, in which anime or manga characters make incidental or out-of-context appearances.
- Pre-modern manga such as Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga, their artists, and other related elements. These are better suited for inclusion with the Japan and Art WikiProjects.
- Composers, bands and musicians with incidental anime or manga association, such as having only a few of their songs sung for an anime opening.
- Articles on compilation albums with only a few anime or manga related tracks.
As a WikiProject, our main goals are to:
- ensure that all anime and manga-related articles are clean, organized, well-written, and accessible;
- improve all anime and manga-related articles to at least good article, featured article, and/or featured list status; and
- create new articles relating to anime and manga as long as they are encyclopedic and adhere to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
Joining the projectEdit
Anyone who edits or contributes to anime and manga related articles is a participant, and there are no other requirements for membership. If they like, users can further identify themselves with the project by signing up as a participant. This helps spread the word about the project, and lets other editors know what types of articles that user is interested in editing. Users can also join the project chat on the unofficial Wikimedia Discord server; see WP:Discord for more information.
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Users can add themselves to the listing at Category:WikiProject Anime and manga participants by adding the following to their user page:
[[Category:WikiProject Anime and manga participants]]
Users can display the project's userbox (pictured above) by adding {{User WP Anime}} to their page, which will also automatically sign them up as a participant.
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BarnSakuraEdit
The Anime and Manga BarnSakura is awarded to users who have worked on and greatly improved anime and manga related articles. This can be bringing articles or lists to good or featured status, major copyediting, cleanup, or other significant help with an article not listed here.
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To award the BarnSakura (or alternate BarnSakura), place the following code on a user's talk page:
==YOUR TOPIC HERE==
{{subst:BarnSakura Award|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}} or
{{subst:BarnSakura Award|1=Put your message here. ~~~~|alt}}
For example:
==BarnSakura for excellent edits==
{{subst:BarnSakura Award|I hereby award you the Anime and Manga BarnSakura for your excellent edits in Naruto-related articles. ~~~~}}
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The Anime and Manga Barnstar is awarded to users who have made particularly good contributions to the WikiProject, including, but not limited to, participating in the assessment department, the cleanup department, and pushing new initiatives forward within the project.
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To award the Barnstar (or alternate Barnstar), place the following code on a user's talk page:
==YOUR TOPIC HERE==
{{subst:The Anime Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}} or
{{subst:The Anime Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~|alt}}
For example:
==Barnstar for excellent edits==
{{subst:Anime and Manga Barnstar|I hereby award you the Anime and Manga Barnstar for your excellent work in clearing the backlogs in the cleanup department of WikiProject Anime and manga. ~~~~}}
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Helpful guidesEdit
Guidelines and other resourcesEdit
For a list of reliable sources for anime and manga, check out the online reliable sources page.
Online tools and resourcesEdit
- ISBN converter - Converts and formats ISBN references.
- Internet Archive - check here for dead pages or older versions of existing pages. Also makes archives for your references. Very useful for volatile websites and other blogs.
- Archive.is (also archive.today, archive.fo, archive.ph, etc) - Makes archives for your references. Very useful for volatile websites and other blogs.
- Megalodon.jp - Makes archives for your references. Very useful for volatile websites and other blogs.
- Webcite - Alternative web archiving service, check here for dead pages or older versions of existing pages. No longer accepts new archives.
- Google RS - custom Google search engine using our RS list and filtering out many bad or non-RS sites
- reFill - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
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Reference libraries
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