Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga

Proposed split of List of Pokémon anime characters

Inactive talk page over at List of Pokémon anime characters, so I'm putting it here as well. (Please respond at the source page, linked directly below)

Shonen Jump+

About the Shonen Jump+ page. A user removed some content from the page stating in their edit summary that "these manga are published in other magazines and this page should be about manga exclusively published on that website". I reverted the edits, but I'm afraid I might enter an edit war over this. Should the Shonen Jump+ page focus on content exclusively published on the site or should it contain content that are also published in other magazines? SimonLagann (talk) 11:36, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

That the table in question is entirely uncited is probably the bigger issue here, but marking the titles that are published in other magazines with † or similar seems like a fair compromise. Morgan695 (talk) 16:04, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Determining the future of B-checklists

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council § Determining the future of B-class checklists. This project is being notified since it is one of the 82 WikiProjects that opted to support B-checklists (B1-B6) in your project banner. DFlhb (talk) 11:25, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Dani Cavallaro

This person has written many books on the topic of anime, and has been cited in articles such as Angel's Egg. However, I am uncertain as to the quality of the source. The highest quality books would be peer reviewed books published by an academic press associated with a University and it appears that her publisher is not this. It's unclear what her education is, or if she has any association with any university. Basic biographical information can't be confirmed, and doing online searches find blog posts of people asking the same questions. Reading their work I see it's filled with jargon and purple prose rather than stating things directly.

This is certainly red flags and I would consider this person to be questionable as a source and I would not personally cite them, especially for facts. I can understand that there's a dearth of high quality sources for anime, but I would certainly avoid this person. Harizotoh9 (talk) 13:29, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Agreed. Cavallaro is not a high-quality source and, in my opinion, her works should be avoided if possible. Charcoal feather (talk) 18:48, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Her books have the superficial look of academic serious books, and there's often a dearth of sources for old anime/manga series so I can see why people would want to rely upon them. But her books appear to be low quality, and heavily cite online blogs, and lack the substance of high quality sources. She's cited on something like 42 pages according to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Dani_Cavallaro&limit=500 Harizotoh9 (talk) 19:32, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

YuYu Hakusho chapter number question

So the Viz Media version of YuYu Hakusho counts the special "Two Shot" story as chapter 64 (they don't put the number in front of it, they just label the subsequent chapter as 65 and continue from there), whereas the original Japanese version does not count it. List of YuYu Hakusho chapters follows the original Japanese and that is what I transferred to the references section of List of YuYu Hakusho characters. I just realized however, as I own the Viz version, that I used their numbers when I went through and cited everything on that characters page. That means the numbers used in that article for all chapter citations after "Two Shot" are ahead of the Japanese by one. I will go ahead and lower them if that is viewed as the best solution. But my hesitation in doing that is the fact that most people reading and editing English Wikipedia are most likely reading/referring to Viz's edition as that seems to be the only official English version. Should we just expect and trust all readers and future editors to know they don't match up? Maybe add an official editnotice to help that, or something similar? Or should we change the numbers in the references section of the characters page to Viz's numbers? Xfansd (talk) 23:31, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

I suppose that the best solution would be using the numbering of Viz's release in the chapters article and leave an explanatory footnote explaining that the "Two Shot" chapter was not numbered in the Japanese release, mainly for consistency's sake with the characters article, given that we usually edit according to what the official English releases indicate. Xexerss (talk) 01:29, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

OK, sounds good to me and no one else commented so I went ahead and did that. Feel free to reword the footnotes. Xfansd (talk) 21:04, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Mai Fujisawa

Is this an article for us to cover in the WikiProject? I ask because Mai Fujisawa is currently a DYK. ISD (talk) 08:26, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

I would say yes, she's known mostly for the Nausicaa song (what the DYK is about) but there's also 3 other Ghibli credits. --Mika1h (talk) 15:37, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Good. I've added the project now. ISD (talk) 16:20, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Fakemon

I assume this is an article to add to the WikiProject. Just checking, as Fakemon is currently top on today's DYK. ISD (talk) 06:29, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Proposal regarding season article naming

There is a proposal to change the naming conventions of TV season articles from the current practice of XXX (season 1) to XXX, season 1 or XXX season 1. As such a change would affect a substantial number of articles, you are invited to participate in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television) § Move TV seasons from parenthetical disambiguation to comma disambiguation. Thank you. InfiniteNexus (talk) 04:19, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Takao Yaguchi

Many of his manga series are only in Japanese Wikipedia: ja:おらが村, ja:新・おらが村, ja:マタギ (漫画), ja:かつみ, ja:ニッポン博物誌, ja:ふるさと (漫画), ja:激濤 Magnitude 7.7. Can you translate them in English, and maybe also expand his own page and Fisherman Sanpei? Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.207.175.7 (talk) 19:06, 24 November 2023 (UTC)