Template talk:WikiProject Anime and manga

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Not adding to categories correctly.

I just noticed that |needs-infobox= is not adding articles to Category:Anime and manga articles needing infoboxes ( 0 ) nor is |needs-image= is not adding articles to Category:Wikipedia requested images of anime and manga ( 320 ). See Talk:List of Mr. Tonegawa: Middle Management Blues episodes for an example, though note that {{Infobox requested}} is adding it to the image req cat even though |needs-image=yes is not. --Nessie (talk) 17:34, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

It's a little late, but these seem to be working as intended. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:58, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Comments related to WPBannerMeta conversion

Use this section to post issues/comments related to the ongoing {{WPBannerMeta}} conversion. Original discussion is at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga § Revisiting the category schemes.

• Do we need a custom importance mask (in addition to the custom class mask)? I was looking at WP:VG as an example, which has one at Template:WikiProject Video games/importance. — Goszei (talk) 21:18, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

  They only have a custom importance mask because they map "no" to "na". The current banner doesn't have any support for this, so don't think it's needed here. -- WOSlinker (talk) 09:27, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

  I see -- I suppose we don't need the importance mask then. — Goszei (talk) 09:47, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

  Custom importance masks are quite rare. For the most part, those that do exist either do nothing special (so it's hard to justify their existence) or they add a "bottom" level beneath "low", but there are one or two that add other levels. Template:WikiProject Video games/importance does two non-standard things, not one: besides mapping "no" to "NA", it also forces all pages outside Talk: space to NA - other WikiProjects might set certain non-article pages, such as crucial navboxes, to e.g. Mid-importance, but Video games can't do that. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 11:55, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

• Nihonjoe's changes to template seem to have fully taken effect now, but Category:Disambig-Class anime and manga articles and Category:Draft-Class anime and manga articles have failed to populate from the contents of Category:NA-Class anime and manga articles; you can see examples of both at Draft talk:2020 Pretty Cure and Talk:Evangelion. I don't know if this has to be fixed in both the current template and/or the sandbox, so I am pinging you both. — Goszei (talk) 22:46, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

  The sandbox version will split them out. The current banner will need modifying if you want to split them now. -- WOSlinker (talk) 09:27, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

  In that case, I think we can wait for the sandbox version. — Goszei (talk) 09:47, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

  I've fixed this. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:54, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

• Should lists be auto-sorted in the "List" category? Currently our project ranks lists as "B", "C", "Start", etc. Is there central guidance for this? I checked some other WikiProjects, which only seem to have one category for featured lists, then one for every other list. — Goszei (talk)

  There doesn't seem to be any support for this in the current banner and I'm not sure if it could be supported with WPBannerMeta either unless you split the List class into ListB, ListC and ListStart classes. -- WOSlinker (talk) 09:27, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

  I think the list quality rankings can be safely deprecated, unless there are objections. Even WikiProject Lists only has "List" and "FL" categories. — Goszei (talk) 09:47, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

  Most WikiProjects allow only two classes specifically for lists: List-Class and FL-Class. A very small number also allow SL-Class for "stub lists" (see Category:SL-Class plant articles); but I know of only one that offers further graduations - that is Military history, which uses the scale Stub → List → CL → BL → AL → FL (see WP:MHA#SCALE). --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:20, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

• Should we eliminate some of our task forces at this juncture? A good deal of them have been inactive for years. — Goszei (talk) 08:25, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Below is a list of the taskforces in the current banner. NOTE: There is a bug in the current banner, which means that the studio-ghibli and sailor-moon categories are only added if light-novel-task-force is set to yes. -- WOSlinker (talk) 10:31, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Param	Image	Text	Category	Class Assessment
bleach-work-group	File:B with flames.png	This article is supported by the Bleach work group.	Category:Bleach work group articles	No
conventions-work-group	CON	This article is supported by the Conventions work group.	Category:Conventions work group articles	No
digimon-work-group		This article is supported by the Digimon work group.	Category:Digimon work group	Partial (article, redirect, file, category, project, template)
dragon-ball-work-group	File:Toribot.svg	This article is supported by the Dragon Ball work group.	Category:Dragon Ball work group	Partial (article, project, template)
evangelion-work-group	EVA	This article is supported by the Evangelion work group.	Category:Evangelion work group	Partial (article, project, template)
gundam-work-group	G	This article is supported by the Gundam work group.	Category:Gundam work group articles	Partial (article, redirect, file)
haruhi-suzumiya-work-group		This article is supported by the Haruhi Suzumiya work group.	Category:Haruhi Suzumiya work group articles	No
hentai-task-force		This article is supported by the Hentai task force.		No
light-novel-task-force		This article is supported by the Light novel task force.	Category:Light novel work group articles	Partial (article, project, template)
sailor-moon-task-force		This article is supported by the Sailor Moon task force.	Category:Sailor Moon work group articles	Partial (article, project, template)
visual-novel-task-force		This article is supported by the Visual novel task force.		No
studio-ghibli-task-force		This article is supported by the Studio Ghibli task force.	Category:Studio Ghibli task force articles	No
yugioh-work-group		This article is supported by the Yu-Gi-Oh! work group.	Category:Yu-Gi-Oh! work group articles	Yes
biography-work-group		This article is supported by the Biography work group.	Category:Anime and manga biography work group articles	No

The bug referred to is due to a misplaced pair of closing braces. It should be an easy fix. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:21, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

@Redrose64: Where is the pair of misplaced braces? Please be very specific. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:45, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

@Redrose64: I think I found it and fixed it. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:54, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

I wrote "misplaced" not "missing" - your edit was only half the job, and caused extra braces to show in transclusions - this was also necessary. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:20, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Well, sorry. It's very difficult to see the brackets and which ones belong where when using Wikipedia's editor because it doesn't color code the code. I did look at your edit following mine before you posted this. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 07:37, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Also, I didn't touch the Haruhi part of the template, so that's an artifact left over from some other editing, not mine. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 07:39, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

I never claimed that you did. Perhaps you should consider your edit and mine together, like this - then you will understand why I wrote "misplaced". If the problem really had been caused by a pair of closing braces that were actually missing, it would have been noticed some years ago - the problem concerned dates back more than five years, to this sequence of edits by DragonZero (talk · contribs). A principle of template code is that braces must balance - for each opening triple brace there must be a matching closing triple brace, and for each opening double brace there must be a matching closing double brace. Unmatched braces show up as visible text. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:02, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

I'm very much aware of how bracket pairs work in templates, so please spare me the lecture. My main comment was that it's very difficult to see bracket pairs when practically everything in the entire template has curly brackets used in it. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 22:56, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

The sandbox version should now be complete to review. -- WOSlinker (talk) 11:34, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

@WOSlinker: I removed the collaboration of the week parts as that's not used by this project. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 23:01, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

I also added icons for those workgroups missing one. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 23:26, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

I have adjusted the size of a few workgroup icons, to be more consistent. — Goszei (talk) 22:44, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

• @WOSlinker, Nihonjoe, and Redrose64: Are we now ready to merge the sandbox with the main template, or are there other tasks/reviews to be completed? — Goszei (talk) 22:44, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

  I think it should be ready now. -- WOSlinker (talk) 06:50, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

  I'm not sure. I have several questions, such as:

  1. Why are the class and B-Class checklist not passed through for all of the {{WPBannerMeta/hooks/taskforces}}?
  2. Why do the various entries in the several {{WPBannerMeta/hooks/taskforces}} use |TF_1_NESTED= etc. when this is not a recognised parameter?
  3. Why are there two different ways of providing parameter aliases - e.g. {{{B1|{{{b1|}}}}}} and {{{mergefrom|}}}{{{mergeto|}}}{{{merge|}}}?

  --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 15:47, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

  1. Only the Yu-Gi-Oh! work group seems to have a full quality assessment. The other work groups only do a limited assessment. So there was no reason to pass over the B-Class checklist for all the other taskforces.
  2. I just included the TF_1_NESTED when setting up the params against the main hook before copying over to the nested and just left them in as it didn't hurt anything.
  3. No idea. I just copied it from the current banner code.

  -- WOSlinker (talk) 16:25, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

  I did make these fixes. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 16:57, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

  @WOSlinker, Nihonjoe, and Redrose64: Just another check-in, since the last edits were about a month ago. Could one of you use your powers to overwrite the main template with the sandbox? I think we've found all of the potentially major problems, and can go further bug-hunting once it's up and running in the mainspace. — Goszei (talk) 08:40, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

   Done ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:11, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Bug fixing

Use the following section to list any bugs created by the WPBannerMeta conversion, which was implemented at 18:10 UTC on 17 August 2020, with this revision. — Goszei (talk) 17:27, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

• Previously, 5 parameters used the ending task-force in their name: hentai-task-force, light-novel-task-force, sailor-moon-task-force, visual-novel-task-force, and studio-ghibli-task-force. In the new template, light-novel-task-force has been changed to end in work-group, which has depopulated the tracking category Category:Light novel work group articles. hentai-task-force has also been changed in the same way, though there is no corresponding category.

I think this can be fixed by simply changing the light-novel and hentai parameter-names to use task-force again, like the other 3 (unchanged) parameters. — Goszei (talk) 17:27, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

I've fixed this. -- WOSlinker (talk) 17:38, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

• Category:Anime and manga articles with incomplete B-Class checklists and Category:Automatically reassessed anime and manga articles are now empty. According to Template:WPBannerMeta/hooks/bchecklist, I think that the first category can be easily implemented. As for the second category, it links to this code: Template:WikiProject Anime and manga/B check, which seems to have handled this; the page I linked says it can be done with the custom class mask as well. — Goszei (talk) 01:35, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

  I've added some code at the end of the sandbox and Template:WikiProject Anime and manga/checks which should populate those categories. Shall I add to the live tmeplate and see if it's ok? -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:58, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

  @WOSlinker: Sure, let's see what happens. — Goszei (talk) 08:12, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

  @WOSlinker: Your patch seems to work, although both categories have now inadvertently captured the template test pages. P.S. I made some changes to the icon-sizes+wording in the sandbox that are also ready to be implemented, if there are no objections there. — Goszei (talk) 09:33, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

  I've copied over the sandbox changes and fixed the issue. -- WOSlinker (talk) 11:32, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

• There's a typo in this line:

| {{{mergefrom}}} be [[Wikipedia:Merging|merged]] to this{{WikiProject Anime and manga/type check|class={{{class}}}}}

It should have a space:

| {{{mergefrom}}} be [[Wikipedia:Merging|merged]] to this {{WikiProject Anime and manga/type check|class={{{class}}}}} — Goszei (talk) 21:52, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

That typo was also in the previous version of the banner as well, and just got copied over. I've updated it now. -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:57, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Something weird with {{nihongo foot}}

I'm struggling to understand why, but I noticed a problem with implementing {{nihongo foot}} on Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight!. Even though on this diff the code in the lead is {{Nihongo foot|'''''Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight!'''''|がくえんゆーとぴあ まなびストレート!|Gakuen Yūtopia Manabi Sutorēto!|{{lit.}} "School Utopia: Manabi Straight"|lead=yes}}, it now treats it as a reference, and doesn't show up in the Notes section that has {{notelist}}, but in the Reference section instead. Can anyone figure out what is going on here?--十八 22:17, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

@Juhachi: I fixed it with this diff. On a side note: this is the talk page for the WikiProject banner template. — Goszei (talk) 22:31, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, and I only posted it here because I knew I wouldn't get any replies if I posted it elsewhere (because almost no one have project templates on their watchlist).--十八 22:34, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

 Self-trout Now I feel silly; I thought I had posted this at WT:ANIME. Feel free to {{trout}} me if I make another stupid mistake.--十八 11:27, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

"Template:WikiProject Hentai" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Template:WikiProject Hentai. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 June 3#Template:WikiProject Hentai until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Elli (talk | contribs) 15:09, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

category:Anime and manga articles with missing B-Class checklists

I'm trying to complete the b-class checklist for C-Class articles, but discovered that there is no way to easily find affected articles. Would it be a problem if I add this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AWikiProject_Anime_and_manga%2Fsandbox&type=revision&diff=1092906996&oldid=1050276914

G.A.S^talk 09:39, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

(Here via request:) This looks good to me; tbh I'm a bit surprised this categorization wasn't added ages ago. 「ディノ奴千？！」^{☎ Dinoguy1000} 10:37, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Template updated accordingly. Now to see how many have missing checklists... G.A.S^talk 09:04, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 3 November 2023

Applying deprecation to custom class masks of WikiProject banners per Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2023 October 26#Template:Unused wikiProject custom class masks: please remove {{WikiProject Anime and manga/class}} from the class parameter in this template as per Special:Diff/1178565080/1183274957. NmWTfs85lXusaybq (talk) 13:20, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

 Done SWinxy (talk) 01:27, 4 November 2023 (UTC)