Thread:Luxartisan/@comment-27869316-20190412152224/@comment-27869316-20190413084449

No need to apologize, perhaps I should’ve made my point clearer in the original post.

As for your rationale regarding simplifying, as far as I’m aware this is very much a case by case issue that has different rules according to the preferences of different wiki’s because conversely, all the wiki’s I’ve worked on prefer to err on the side of preserving the original presentation so as to give users an experience as close to what the original author/creators intended. At the end of the day, I don’t think an extra hyphen or exclamation point in an otherwise entirely English title is going to either encourage or discourage new readers or editors; people come to the wiki because they’re searching for something specific, and stay because they find editing an enjoyable past time. Ultimately, wiki audiences and editors tend to come and go as new series content emerges, as evidenced by the increase to 30k daily visitors we saw when season 3 premiered. People definitely visit during the off periods but are typically unlikely to stay on as editors unless they have a pre-existing interest in wiki editing. As such, considering the original admin team here seemed to follow similar naming convention methods to those I’d seen on other wiki’s I felt it best to continue on with that trend as it seemed appropriate (that and I had no other editors to discuss the matter with).

However, since your methods seem to conflict somewhat with mine and (as per our previous large discussion thread) I believe this issue requires input from all the current active editors, not just admins. At the end of the day admins are really only supposed to perform special actions such as block problematic users, delete vandalism images, etc.; not be the definitive authority on how the wiki should be operated. Before tackling such issues in the future as large as naming conventions for major and popular articles I would appreciate it if you discussed it with the community first so we can all be in agreement on what course of action to take.

As for the episode names, I agree that in places where the number titles are displayed we should display both the episodes number in the series as a whole and within it own season so “Episode 13 (1)” should be good for that. Similarly, the 0 in front of single digit episode numbers sounds good if it makes everything look smoother.

However, for the diacritical markings this is an issue Yuji and I discussed last year and ultimately decided upon the macrons being necessary for similar reasons to those regarding preserving the original Japanese punctuation/etc. All of the main characters across the various seasons and movies have received canonical romanizations of their names multiple times, and therefore none of them require the diacritical marks, ie. Sosuke and Momotaro definitively spelled without the u after the o. But for minor characters the closest we have to official English versions of their names are Crunchyroll subtitles (which aren’t a super reputable source as they have a track record of misspellings, even on main characters names). In most cases we don’t even have furigana to determine if the name is spelt with ‘uu’ or ‘ou’/etc. thus we use the macrons to indicate characters with ambiguous romanization spelling. However, this was only discussed between Yuji and I, and as with our other issues perhaps the four of us should decide on how to proceed with these spellings.

Regarding images, I believe that’s what Yuji meant; wiki’s tend to frown upon images with random keysmash names, it’s better for the name to be a basic descriptor of whats going on in the image (unless its part of an episode screencap series in which case a series image number is fine). As for the image licensing, I personally err on the side of caution on my main wiki and apply licenses to all images but given the sheer number of images on here this would probably be a very difficult task, especially without knowing where a lot of these images were originally sourced from. But, again, that’s just my opinion on the matter, I’m unsure how the others may feel on this matter.

-Fox