Thread:Luxartisan/@comment-27869316-20190412152224/@comment-27869316-20190414130235

Regarding Tari's message:

Ah, no not quite; we're talking about how to label season/episode/character articles. Previously, the articles have been listed as they've been presented in Japanese (and, with the exception of the Take Your Marks movie, this is how they're presented in English too I've found), but Angelle believes simplifying them would be better. For example, season 3 is always given as "Free!-Dive to the Future-", but Angelle feels that "Free! Dive to the Future" or (if I've interpreted this correctly) even just "Dive to the Future" would look better. Our respective views are that: Angelle believes the original Japanese style may be too offputting to new users and editors, so simplifying it could bring in new editors. On the otherhand, I believe we should stick to the creators intent and present it in it's original format so that we're giving an accurate presentation of all material, and that new editors come because they enjoy editing and that punctuation is unlikely to have a large influence on this.

Similarly, for character names we've previously used macrons (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū, ǖ) in cases where were unsure if the characters name uses a double vowel or an ou sound because no official English spelling has been given. Again, Angelle feels we should drop the macron and just have a singular vowel (ie. the character previously listed as Shōta Nakagawa would instead be presented as Shota Nakagawa). Similar to the previous point, Angelle feels this will simplify things for new users while I feel that the macron is appropriate for the ambiguous nature of the spelling.

Also, I was unaware that Ao no Kanata had been renamed to Blue Distance, thank you for mentioning that since it feels appropriate for the rest of this discussion. For this matter, I feel that having it as Ao no Kanata is preferable since we've never been given an official English title (though having the translated title in the intro so people know what Ao no Kanata means would be helpful). What do you guys think though?

Regarding Angelle's message:

I believe tokubetsuban means 'special edition' but I'm not 100% confident on that, and considering most of the people interested in free are weebs thats probably helpful lmao.

A public poll sounds like a great idea! Should we replace  the one on the front page with that one?

As for coding, I'm self taught so I've still got some learning to do myelf but I know quite a bit so hit me up if you need anything and I'll try to help!

-Fox