Thread:Saruhikofushimis/@comment-5785681-20200917080911/@comment-27869316-20200919135808

Yes I consider light novels, mooks, pamphlets, and books as the same since they're all a physical readable item sold in bookshops; the only reason I personally consider magazines different in regards to Free! as a series is because the magazine is not produced by KyoAni and typically it is only a single article or photo spread that is pertinent to the series, not the entire magazine. When it /is/ a magazine entirely dedicated to Free! and/or produced exclusively by KyoAni for the series then it has been included under the books category (ie. the character mooks are effectively short magazines).

In regards to adding LN images to galleries, as you said the media series with which they are correlated is not clear cut as many segments didn't get turned into episodes or scenes in the movies; with the Free! Novelize being an exception as it is a direct adaptation of the first season. Personally the way I see it, if I absolutely had to allocate the LNs to the anime:

-HS! = Free!/HSSD

-HS!2 = HSSD/DttF

-Novelize = Free!

However, there is still a lot of scenes and material from the first 2 novels which don't align neatly since they didn't get an animated adaption. I could see an argument for including a "Novels" sub-section on the Free! gallery and including images from the novelize LN, but I fail to see a logical and sane way to include the HS novels under any gallery due to the adaptational discrepancies. As such, it would feel disingenuous to try and claim that images from the HS novels belong under any specific anime image gallery as it was produced independently of the series/movies, which was one of the reasons I relented to your proposal in having the novels separate from the books as a category. Considering this is also how we agreed to categorize the individual images from the HS novel as a special exception I believe the same principle should apply here.

In short, personally I would advocate for only the Free! Novelize images being included in an anime gallery, while the HS! 1 & 2 images would be better suited to remaining in the novels dedicated gallery.

And finally, I do not have any hidden resentments nor have I been unauthentic up to this point, I've simply been attempting to be polite and overlook certain issues in the interest of collaborative work and maintaining a reasonable working environment between editors.

-Fox 13:58, September 19, 2020 (UTC)