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[GWOtaku]

Confused about a rule or how to do something in the TZ Wiki? This thread is for you. We've tried to be pretty thorough in our guidelines, but just in case this thread will cover the gaps. Just ask whatever questions you have and we'll do our best to answer.

Posters, please feel free to respond to a question if you know the answer.

[MonkeyFunk]

A quick one:

Animation Series and Shorts

The introductory paragraph should ideally discuss the year of the show’s premiere, briefly mention its essential facts (usually its creator, the genre, and its significance), and when possible where it is or used to air.

Basic sections should include the following, in this order:

...

Characters

Here, the characters of the series can be listed and described. Specific details be limited, in keeping with the spoiler policy. A character listing in the main article should be no longer than a single, good-sized paragraph. Anything longer belongs in an article page for that character.

Just for clarity - the "characters" section is optional for articles on shorts, right?

[GWOtaku]

A quick one:

Just for clarity - the "characters" section is optional for articles on shorts, right?

I think that's entirely reasonable.

[Rolling Cloud]

In the Code Geass article, the OP/ED section looks like this... http://wiki.toonzone.net/index.php/Code_Geass#Media

Would it be worth it to add a note saying that the Japanese airing for eps. 24-25 used "COLORS" for the ED?

[GWOtaku]

Sure. The more info the better.

[J'onn J'onzz]

When an article is created, is it automatically added to the list of articles? Or are users supposed to add it to the list themselves? Or do admins check the activity logs and add whatever pages have been created recently?

[GWOtaku]

When an article is created, is it automatically added to the list of articles? Or are users supposed to add it to the list themselves? Or do admins check the activity logs and add whatever pages have been created recently?

The former. The article list is a special page that updates automatically all on its own. I just checked out of curiosity and the list is updated the exact same moment that a new article is created.

[Mr. Anime]

Question: On one of the articles I am working on it, there keeps appearing these warning about the page has going over 32kb. What should I do about it?

[GWOtaku]

What's the article? Is this stopping you from saving changes in any way?

[Mr. Anime]

What's the article? Is this stopping you from saving changes in any way?

This article http://wiki.toonzone.net/index.php/L...ary_characters and no it's not stop me from save updates i, it just keeps telling me that i've gone over the size limit.

[Jave]

This article http://wiki.toonzone.net/index.php/L...ary_characters and no it's not stop me from save updates i, it just keeps telling me that i've gone over the size limit.

I think the general consensus is that no article should be THAT long. I mean I'm looking at the article and some of those descriptions have too much text in them. There are also quite a few spoilers within the descriptions.

I suppose the only solutions is to make the descriptions shorter or two break the article into separate, smaller articles.

[HellCat]

What's our stance on live action movies based on animation? Stuff like The Flintstones, G-Saviour, etc? Those could go either way I think. Especially tricky when you have shows like Ben 10 which used a live action movie to wrap up the story.

[GWOtaku]

Ben 10 is one thing, but that other stuff that basically amounts to a live-action remake...well, it reminds me of Cartoon Network's decision to put live action on TV. We could allow it, but do we really want to? To me, this is a harder case than the one that could be made for comics.

I would suggest generally restraining this to the article about the cartoon that such projects come from...this is up for discussion though.

[Prof. Mecavio]

I have a question to make, one that may seem odd, even stupid. In the TZ Animation Wiki Guide topic it says that if you search for an article that doesn't exist, you'll have the option to create said article. However, it seems that this option is not available for me, nowhere do I get a text/message that says something like "this article doesn't exist, would you like to create it?" (Or whatver it might say). So, what I would like to know is; what am I doing wrong? As you can understand this is a bit frustrating, especially since I don't know the reason for it.

Thank you.

Ps: I hope this was the right topic for this sort of question (seems like it). If not, then feel free to throw this post into the trash.

[GWOtaku]

This is definitely the place to ask, no worries!

Well, what is supposed to happen basically goes like this. If I search for "Fake Show Title" I will get a search results page that basically starts off like this:

There is no page titled ":Fake Show Title". You can create this page.
For more information about searching Toon Zone Animation Wiki, see Searching Toon Zone Animation Wiki.
Showing below 1 results starting with #1.

The "create this page" link would be what you want.

If for some reason you aren't getting this, tell me what you're trying to create and I'll help get it started and hopefully also figure out what the problem is as well.

[Prof. Mecavio]

Ok, thanks for the help, I appreciate it. I got the "you can create this page" option while searching now. However, first I had to remove "&fulltext= Search" from the adress window.

[MonkeyFunk]

The "create article" option only comes up if you hit "go", not "search".
Not sure why, but then, Wikipedia does the same thing...

[MonkeyFunk]

I need a bit of clarity on the copyrighted material issue - is it okay to use brief quotes? I'm asking mainly because I'm planning to make an article on the Pulcinella Special Mention awards, which really need context (they get handed out for everything from "technical innovation" to "ambitious undertaking in the name of peace in the Middle East"), but I can see where quotations could be useful in "reception" sections.

[HellCat]

I'd say that's fine. Most academic writings use quotations so some brief sourced quotations should be ok.

[Jacob T. Paschal]

As I mentioned to GWO in a PM I've got a sort of database of English voice actors for Dragonball characters (and the products they voiced in), but asking more specifically here might be better. Should I maybe add each bit to the character profiles or begin completely new articles? As you can see from the below attatchment (Son Gokû's English VAs), the database is rather extensive and might be too cumbersome.