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CSE milestone

In an interesting milestone, the anime/manga reliable sources search engine has today passed 2000 blacklisted domains and 300 whitelisted domains. (Specifically, 2128/302.) The search which had the dubious distinction of adding so much to the blacklist was Sexfriend.

As ever, editors are encouraged to use the CSE to find sources for articles; I encourage everyone also to report junk-filled searches or suggest additional domains/URLs for the black/whitelists. --Gwern (contribs) 21:39 24 January 2011 (GMT)

Yumekui Merry translation check

Will someone be willing to do a translation check at Yumekui Merry for the episode titles

Copyedit request

Normally, I don't often create articles, in part because I don't get the opportunity. But today, I created two articles, Cardfight!! Vanguard and Moshidora which I like other editors to look over and do some copyediting. I was quite surprised that the former didn't have an article given that that the 4th episode just started streaming on Crunchyroll. The latter isn't as surprising, but it was the best selling novel of 2010 with an anime series announced back in July. —Farix (t | c) 21:14, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

And an article on Mai no Mahō to Katei no Hi is in my user space because it's unable to pass WP:OUTCOMES at this point in time. —Farix (t | c) 21:46, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

I just added two Japanese refs which should be enough to get it into mainspace. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 06:23, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

And it's now been moved to mainspace. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 18:38, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

I have, incidentally, cleaned up the CSE hits for all three. (The Cardfight!! results were astonishingly bad. How this can be with 2300 domains on the blacklist and 300 on the whitelist, I have no idea. There are a really astonishing number of download/streaming sites and forums.) --Gwern (contribs) 19:42 5 February 2011 (GMT)

Manga cover fur boilerplate template

While {{Book cover fur}} has been around for a while and used on some manga covers, it doesn't quite fit manga. So using {{Book cover fur}} as a model, I've been working on a prototype of {{Manga cover fur}}, currently located in one of my sandboxes, that will be more specific to manga covers. It allows for the inclusion of an illustrator and volume number as well has changing the text to use "manga" instead of "book". I've also fixed some of the spacing issues that was present in {{Book cover fur}} and made the "override" fields actually override the boilerplate in every instance with the exception that |Commentary= still displays when |Purpose= is used. —Farix (t | c) 03:50, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Can you simply adapt {{Book cover fur}} by adding a switch to do everything you added to the manga fur? ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 05:44, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Technically, yes. But I've made some other changes in how the parameters behave that would be considered "severe", such as with the override fields, and may not be excepted in the original. The spacing fixes are the one things I plan to apply to the original template. —Farix (t | c) 11:37, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

After seeing how many times a switch statement will need to be used to replace "book" with "manga" (13 times), I consider the switch to be impractical as it will overcomplicated the template for very little gain. —Farix (t | c) 13:52, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Okay, I just wanted to make sure it had been reviewed as an option. I think the examples on the page you gave are good. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 18:37, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

I've move the first prototype to {{Manga cover fur}}, leaving the second prototype in my userspace. I made some last minute changes when I copied the code over that aren't reflected in the second prototype. —Farix (t | c) 20:17, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Now the template can select between {{Non-free use rationale}}, {{Non-free image data}}, and {{Non-free image rationale}} depending on the value of |Format=. This should make it easier for images, such as File:Highschool of the Dead vol01.jpg, that are used in more than one article without having so much repetitive information. —Farix (t | c) 01:14, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

I don't like the change as i still wonder how by using "more words", we somehow managed to be less accurate. FURs need basically to answer to Who, When, Where and Why and changes made are just an overdone move to answer the "Why" while ditching the When and Where parts. I know i'm not anymore this much active here but still, i'm permitted to express my opinion and i'm doing so. --KrebMarkt (talk) 07:10, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Any fields can be overridden. However, when most of the optional fields are set, they should provided more than enough details to describe the material and state where it came from, which is what I gather what you are commenting about. It also fixes a very common mistake in stating who owns the copyright, which is a requirement for NFURs. But whether it is "handwritten" or a template, most of these NFURs tend to be boilerplate in one form or another. Having a template just makes it easier to fill out the NFUR and keep the wording consistent from image to image. And if we tweak the language of the manga cover rationales, it can be instantly updated on all of the image pages. —Farix (t | c) 13:26, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

I know after the RfC on cover images there was some agreement to go about removing these templates due to the over proliferation of covers (mostly in albums), but it could be done here. It's basically one of the few ways they thought could help limit their usage even somewhat. I'm not saying not to do this, but be warned that your efforts might be removed sometime in the near future and then you'd have to go back and redo all those images.陣内_Jinnai 18:05, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Lolicon

I have conducted a reassessment of the above article following its nomination for reassessment. You are being notified as your project banner is on the talk page. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:Lolicon/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 02:59, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

List of Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn mobile weapons

Hello. I think this article needs a lot of decrufting and putting out-of-universe, because it seems lifted from Gundam Wikia. I've started fixing up this morning but more help is welcome. Thank you. --Eaglestorm (talk) 14:50, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Reference check requested for Kamen Tantei

I have created Kamen Tantei in my user space here. Would someone with the September 2006 issue of Newtype USA please check to see if I got the citation right. I do not have the complete issue so I am a little concerned. Any other help that you may provide is also welcome. – Allen4names 02:56, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

I found what I needed here. I will be moving the page into main space soon. – Allen4names 18:08, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Just a Heads Up...

Some user has been trying to impersonate me by making claims on talk pages and linking my user name at the end of it. As far as I can tell it is only centered on Talk:List of Black Rock Shooter characters, but if you happen to see strange comments supposedly signed by me on other talk pages, please check the page history or my edit history to see who actually made it and alert the proper channels. I've already reported this incident and it is being taken care of. Fox816 (talk) 07:48, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

LineColor

An editor first suggested to change the default color of |LineColor=, then completely eliminate it citing WP:Deviations. Please contribute to the discussion at Template talk:Episode list#LineColor. —Farix (t | c) 00:34, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

FLRC for List of YuYu Hakusho episodes (season 3)

I have nominated List of YuYu Hakusho episodes (season 3) for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. DragonZero (Talk · Contribs) 09:30, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Avatar usage under discussion again

See Talk:Avatar_(Hinduism)#Requested_move_2 where it is requested that the move done by 2010 move request be undone, moving the Hindu concept to primary in place of the disambiguation page. 64.229.101.183 (talk) 03:15, 16 February 2011 (UTC)