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Start PR process

Can you start the Peer Review process for List of Canaan episodes cause the nominator can't be the reviewer. Thanks. Extremepro (talk) 05:40, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Cookie time

autoreviewer
. Don't create article faster than i can pre-check them :p

Edit: Can you leave a wikilink to created articles in your edit comment summaries so i can track more easily created article that need book cover by looking at Revision history of Wikipedia:Requested articles/Japan/Anime and Manga because comparing diff to find them isn't great. Thanks. --KrebMarkt 16:03, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

revert

again, the problem is that i got the last word and yet no one will respond. the problem is that people stop and end up archiving it. for now i'm looking for someone who doesn't even know NGE to decide whether the list of references that people have made multiple assumptions is trvial or not.

talk
) 15:58, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

the problem is that we dont have enough, i'm looking for a nuetral person, actually, i just checked an hour go and noticed someoen actually agreeing with me. i also asked other ones not familiar with this. it was simple discussion whith gwern to see whther the points can work on my favor until folken took it as a full fledge discussion to decide whether they should be removed or added. i was offenced and supported my thoughts.


also to me, it's not about "getting the last word". it's about doing what's right. i was a bit sketchy before, but i'm still supporting to remove the comepletely random list of areas where people made there own interpretation.

talk
) 22:07, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

that is incredibly prejudice. either way, if that was the case then they will just be imature. like i said, i'm loking for arbitration with a mod or some adopter, but everytime i do, folken thinks it's an act against him personally. i really wish you did hear me out that time, e completely harrased me and hopefully it wont happen again.

talk
) 19:36, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

your ideas only affect the article discussions. but what happens when it comes to someones page? i told you about this one, and you ignored me completely. didnt even respond once

talk
) 20:51, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

regarding a certain person who was being uncivil, so i asked you to tell him to tone it down considering some tension between us would lead to a fight. you ignored me while the person kept bothering me saying "he was never uncivil". than he accused me of me out to get him and trying to turn other contributors against him. and as much as i tried to explain, he kept bothering.

talk
) 20:58, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

i know your not anyones keeper. i was merely tryin to find someone who was in good terms to pass the message without him getting angry. either way his method of thinking is always taking to the personal level when it comes to me or he assumes some personal grudge someone has, and really though i do have some personal grudge, I'm trying not to get in the way of discussion. well anyways............. as vague as that section is, I'll drop it. for now I'm concentrating on summarizing the plot and thinking about removing "Honnêamise sequel" within Origin and production. feel free to discuss it since no one is.

talk
) 21:10, 2 January 2010 (UTC)


i have found no production on angelic days, All the things found in angelic days volume was related more to character concept than actual production itself. I looked on google, bing, and yahoo, but found no such production. Also, thanks to krebmarkt, discussion is going smoothly. and no, it's not over every single edit.I am being more exopedian, but you think it's as simple as that when it comes to articles relating to NGE. i do edit other articles as well. i have a phobia of editing in NGE articles on my own as you can see. but at least it's not so bad, whenever i edit and is considered bad edit and get's reverted, the other one reverting find something else to fix around the same subject. so in a way I'm contributing. There's not much to Add in NGE anime, i couldn't find much on angelic Days. For now I'm trying to make the List of NGE albums and it's Progressing pretty smoothly. the next step is to make the list of NGE video games.

talk
) 21:57, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

unreferencedBLP
}} tag. Here is the article:

  1. Fumina Hara - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 20:40, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Ping

Check Color (manga) talk page.

--KrebMarkt 16:03, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

There's a pile of English reviews on the bottom of that page. 211.30.12.191 (talk) 23:51, 6 January 2010 (UTC) as User:Extremepro

Summary Style

Exactly where are you referring to on that page? Dandy Sephy (talk) 01:32, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Re: Thanks

I'm glad you were able to use the additional information in the oil section of the Environmental threats to the Great Barrier Reef article. That list of wells was taken from my book on the history of AIMS. I think the article's pretty good - you've covered both the historical and modern issues very well. Peter Bell (talk) 07:42, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Manzai

I'm glad to see that you are working on that article! I'll see what I can do about it... WhisperToMe (talk) 18:52, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Urusei Yatsura

I came across my movie program for Beautiful Dreamer and thought the promotional image from the movie would serve a dual purpose of illustrating the anime style as well as a media type (I have the LP of the ost as well). The common promotional image is [1], let me know what you think. It would be either the album version or dvd/vhs cover as the plain image is already used on the movie article. I'll keep looking in the meantime, but the stuff i own is either LP (varies) or movie program (3rd and 4th.) Dandy Sephy (talk) 12:38, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

I think the plain image itself should be fine, the same one as on the films page. It doesn't make sense to me to have near-identical images on the different pages, one with text on it, one not. If you can find a 'better' image, (whatever 'better' means...) feel free to use that. As long as you feel any particular image contributes significantly to a reader's understanding of UY and can have a good stab at justifying this, it should all be good. :) (and please get rid of the LP image - without commentary on the cover, it seems mainly decorative, to fill up that hole under the infobox.) --Malkinann (talk) 18:57, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

sorry for angelic days

just letting you know that i wont be able to enter the information in on the production section of angelic days due to my manga archive is in storage. sorry, though frankly, i don't think there was any notable or important information on the manga series.

talk
) 16:06, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Courtesy note

You are receiving this note because you participated in

xenotalk
14:29, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

A bit busy

Hi,

Sorry to not be much available lately due to the crazy among of unsourced mangaka and Japanese voice actors. Fix one and find two needing to be fixed :(

I'm hope, i could spare more time for anything but BLP articles. --KrebMarkt 21:43, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

You are nice :)
I also got dragged here, here and here. Note that i only appear on talk pages so i'm was not obliged to write drafts and other reports ;) --KrebMarkt 22:23, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

If that doesn't make you happy

See that one big news. Cheers :) --KrebMarkt 21:08, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

And you wanted Matt Thorn reaction. Here you have it :p --KrebMarkt 08:08, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Writing about Moto Hagio...

...has become a new trend lately enjoy this one (see the last page) from the reliable Japan Foundation.

Note: Creating an article for Iguana girl isn't optimum as this short story will be included in the Matt Thorn's collection of short stories scheduled for September. Nevertheless i leave to you the choice to create an article on Iguana girl or not. --KrebMarkt 16:22, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Matt Thorn interview

He wept reading The Heart of Thomas ;) --KrebMarkt 15:20, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Most useful part is how he got the other way around to secure Hagio's right for the short stories collection (short stories collection development section) and how having the Hagio name in their future collection can be useful to convince other mangaka.
Sad news wise there is Shio Satō death that Matt Thorn blogged about. --KrebMarkt 06:06, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Old stuff

Hi,

If you remember you dropped me a line not long ago about

Alone in My King's Harem. Well the situation is still the same with just a twist. Manga Cast review Mania review both reviews are done the very same Ed Chavez with just a month apart between the two so i can't call a safe for the article, unfortunately. --KrebMarkt
19:50, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

hi

just wants to says sorry, for being a bit of a jerk. although i changed my views on most things, i still feel a little bit of the same on others. so yeah.

anyways, another reason why i came to your talk page was because me and Collectonian confirmed that NGE timeline article does not meet notability guideline and I've been wanting to Afd it or pre-Afd it. but in my last attempt, i dont know how anymore. can you do it for me?

talk
) 16:23, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

I started a List of Neon Genesis Evangelion Video Games article on a special page a while back, but i remember you saying you were going to make one, just wondering if you are or discontinued it.

talk
) 19:17, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Cookie Again

For taking part of the First Animanga unsourced BLP clean-up drive even it was mostly AfD but someone has to do that part. The clean-up continues now from Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Unreferenced BLPs. Thanks for your contributions. --KrebMarkt 07:45, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Hyphenation

For the hyphenation of "magical-girl" when used as an adjective, please see the

Wikipedia Manual-of-Style guideline - especially point 3 on compund adjectives. -- HoundsOfSpring (talk
) 05:40, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

WP:COMMONNAME also primarily deals with proper names, which likewise has no relevance to class adjectives. Reliable sources in multiple fields use hyphens appropriately in compounds - and so can we in editing Wikipedia. -- HoundsOfSpring (talk
) 06:48, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps we should bring the matter to the attention of ) 06:40, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the references, which show interesting characteristics. -- To summarize the state of play thus far:
In summary, the texts have varying approaches to the issue of marking an adjectival phrase and avoiding the potential ambiguities of (say) a magical genre about girls vs a genre involving entities called "magical girls". Most of them distinguish the adjectival phrase from the noun phrase in some way. Using quotes suggests a neologism -- I prefer to follow
WP:COMMONNAME) or as a noun phrase. -- HoundsOfSpring (talk
) 07:44, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
I've centralized/summarized our discussions at Talk:Magical girl and notified the grammarians. -- HoundsOfSpring (talk) 06:45, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Moto Hagio 61st birthday

Matt Thorn again ;)

The line-up of artists who pay her homage in the book is very very impressive. Leiji Matsumoto, Tetsuya Chiba, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Go Nagai, Chica Umino among others. --KrebMarkt 16:34, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Reflinks

I've noticed you rarely add full references to the articles you create - only the barelinks (and occasionally with title). Reflink tool can help you with that. Start from your creations from

Wikipedia:ANIME/REQUEST? Thanks. 211.30.103.37 (talk) 10:15, 3 June 2010 (UTC) as Extremepro (talk · contribs
)

Toshiki Yui

Hi, Malkinann. I see you noticed that I just started to repair the Toshiki Yui entry. It wasn't disastrous, merely very low on the mediocre side. So I've started in on it. If you want to help, that'd be most welcome! Timothy Perper (talk) 12:36, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, Malkinann. I'll look at the TV Tropes website again, but it's what the guy says. There isn't very much "criticism" about Yui in English. Onward! Timothy Perper (talk) 14:56, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Good stuff you added to the TY article. Thanks. What annoys me about the argument I had on the TY talk page is that the list (which I re-created) ended up with almost exactly the same content as I originally had put in. Oh well. Timothy Perper (talk) 13:42, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks again, Malkinann. I'm just going to pull back from the TY page completely, and if anyone wants to add anything, they can do it. The list of Yui's work in Japanese is far from complete, but it's not worth the hassle for me. On another subject, do you know anything about "Gyokuji"? Who is this character? She's at http://gyokuji.entercrews.com/ -- it's part of the whole Ikki Tosen, Battle Vixens game thing, which I don't know at all. I *think* -- not sure -- that she's from Vol. 8 of the manga, but I can be wrong. Timothy Perper (talk) 23:23, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
I think she (I mean the character) might be Ten'i but I am far from sure! I'm not familiar with Battle Vixens or Ikkitousen at all. I've done some searching for Yui material in French sources, but haven't found much. "It" -- the manga -- can be found easily by searching amazon.fr and also on <http://touteslesbds.com/Pages/5517.htm>. Normally, I'd include the link in the TY article but after all the screaming at me and the removal of all the references I put in, I'm not going near putting anything into the article. Yeah, it's a shame, but I can't win against these people. As you can tell, I'm rather disappointed, but I'll survive. Timothy Perper (talk) 00:37, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Request done

1. Could you please use up the reviews stashed at the bottom of Ōoku: The Inner Chambers? Thanks.


2. In

User talk:AnmaFinotera#Reference request
, Anma states that

Any typos are mine unless marked with [sic]

In entry for Hot Tails, "Toshiki Yui has been an adult manga king for a long time and it's clear why: no one else comes close to his mix of sex, humor, and bizarre imagination. He simply lets his id[sic] run wild

Id is not a typo, it is part of Freud's theory here:

Id, ego, and super-ego
. I can't edit her talkpage because its semi-protected.


3. Could you change User:Extremepro/monobook.js: the Wikibreak enforcer.

Change

var date = { year: 2010, month: 12, day: 1};
var time = { hours: 0, minutes: 1, seconds: 0};

to

var date = { year: 2010, month: 11, day: 1};
var time = { hours: 0, minutes: 1, seconds: 0};

Thanks. 211.30.103.37 (talk) 09:01, 11 June 2010 (UTC) as Extremepro (talk · contribs)

Boys Love round table

Hi,

just to point you a roundtable around yaoi on the

Comics Journal
website.

Note that this a very big chunk to digest especially the 4 pages sidebar essay by Dirk Deppey. If you wonder which book he criticized it's this one. --KrebMarkt 20:54, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

All of the essays in the roundtable are criticizing the same book, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre. Mostly they don't like it. (I'm only partway though the book and some of it is, in fact, rather weak, but there are a few interesting points scattered around.) - JRBrown (talk) 21:26, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Well, Suzuki didn't come up with the formulation either. There is (what seems to be) a potentially very interesting article by Fujimoto Yukari in Japanese (Onna no Yokubo no katachi: Redezu komikku ni miru onna no sei genso, in Nyu Feminizumu Rebu Vol. 3 Porunogurafuii, ed. Shirafuji Kayako, 1992, pgs 70-90 - I have not been able to lay hands on the original, and couldn't read it anyway, but it's cited in several English sources) looking at rape in "ladies' comics" (which would seem directly applicable to yaoi rape fantasies as well), from a similar viewpoint. And I am definitely keeping an eye out for useful tidbits. :) - JRBrown (talk) 22:23, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

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This article has already been prodded before back in 2008, so it can't be prodded again. But since this is a work by

Kouji Seo, I would recommend redirecting it to his article as a viable search term. —Farix (t | c
) 12:32, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Delete article on Boku no Futatsu no Tsubasa?

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boku no Futatsu no Tsubasa and also the discussion page itself for the manga. Timothy Perper (talk) 03:53, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

It's kind of long to merge as is with the Toshiki Yui article, though maybe all the plot and character stuff could be eliminated. But I'm not a deletionist -- although Farix seems to be, or so I assume from his editing -- and think that material like this, especially about untranslated manga, is very useful for non-Japanese readers interested in the work. We have no other sources of information, and given the inclusionist philosophy I tend to hold, I think it's a useful addition to the corpus of Wikipedia entries, particularly because it's about a "hermaphrodite" -- I assume the Japanese term is "futanari," but I don't know that about the manga. I recently wrote an article that discusses manga like this but didn't know about "Boku no Futatsu no Tsubasa." I wish I had known about it. Timothy Perper (talk) 04:17, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
No, the article isn't available on-line... alas. A redirect or merge or something would probably be fine. Maybe that's what it will come to. Timothy Perper (talk) 04:40, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

I thought about posting the following "comment only" to the deletion page discussion, but suspect that it will only cause irritation and vexation. Which I do not want. What do you think?

  • Comment only Maybe some background about this subgenre of hermaphrodite women in manga will help. The background may help evaluate various google searches described above and various claims of non-notability. What follows is NOT “original research” because I have no intention of putting any of this into the article. Instead, it’s background designed to help people make some educated decisions.
I’ve been publishing about sex in manga for some time in the scholarly literature. For example, I mention “hermaphroditism” in a 2003 paper of mine now on the Kinsey Institute website, at http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/ccies/jp.php#8d and included the subject in another published paper
Perper, Timothy and Martha Cornog. 2008. “I Never Said I Was a Boy”: Utena, Arita Forland, and the (Non) Phallic Woman. International Journal of Comic Art, 10(2):328-353.
I am not the only writer who has dealt with the question -- Jennifer Robertson, among others, also deals with hermaphrodite women.
Robertson, Jennifer 1998 Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. University of California Press. ISBN-10: 0520211510
The subgenre is manga about women with penises -- hermaphrodites in medical tech-speak, “futanarikko” in Japanese, and “chicks with dicks” in colloquial fan English. I just googled that phrase and got 780,000 hits. It’s a very popular subgenre of ecchi or H manga. Yui and other manga artists, like Hiroyuki Utatane, have done a number of short stories about such characters, but -- I think -- "Boku" ("My Two Wings") is the first full-length manga Yui did in the subgenre. It is well known in the scanlated version and there was a buzz about it in fan circles when it appeared. Various writers about manga, myself included, have published papers about these women, although not about Yui’s manga in particular. So the result is that "Boku" has attained some commercial success certainly in Japan and fan-blogster popularity among US fans (who rely on the scanlations for their knowledge). One example is this article ITSELF -- it was put up about 3 years ago (July 26, 2007, according to the history), so even Wikipedia had an article on this manga as well as an article on futanari, the Japanese word for “hermaphrodite.”
So the issue created by this article is (in part) whether the article should be deleted because it lacks notability (which was Farix’s original criticism) or whether Wikipedia should deal with material of considerable interest to fans. Be careful with this question -- several people have called the google hits “junk,” but that “junk” is exactly what is proving notability. “Boku” is not some high-school kid’s cartoon in his high-school paper which he thinks deserves a Wikipedia article. “Boku” is genuinely very widely known on the web -- as the Google searches indicate, the scanlation indicates (even if the scanlation is of doubtful legality), the number of booksellers who sell it, and putting up this article 3 years ago.
Timothy Perper (talk) 13:11, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
I agree with your comments. I'm not going to do much of anything about this; I've concluded that by and large Wiki's approach to manga and anime are not in touch with the realities of either fan activities or professional and semi-professional writing on the subject. Scanlations are a good example. One can take the "high moral ground," as some of the editors do, but the fact is that scanlation is now the norm in bringing manga to the non-Japanese speaking world. There are a great many scanlation sites, and they're popular. The "My Two Wings" article is an excellent example, since it was put up 3 years ago -- on the basis, I assume, of scanlated translations. So Wiki is behind the times, no matter how "moral" it may seem to be. There's not much anyone can do about it. Oh well. Timothy Perper (talk) 23:15, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
We don't keep articles for the sake that scanlation exists. We don't keep articles to please the fandom.
Why the scanlation exists and is popular will never be a good argument for keeping an article:
  • Can you prove the existence of illegal scanlation of a given work?
  • Can you prove that existence with a Reliable Source per Wikipedia standards?
  • Can this RS not facilitate access of the said illegal scanlation?
For information various manga publishers do keep watch on manga articles and won't hesitate to whack Wikipedia for facilitating access to illegal contents. --KrebMarkt 06:14, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm sorry, KrebMarkt, but I'm not following your argument. This is not a matter of reliability, but of notability. I believe that Wiki exists to cover and discuss subjects of notable interest to readers, and the existence of scanlations, legal or not, indicates that such interest exists. No one and certainly not me suggests that we use the scanlation site in the article -- I think that's out of the question. But one of the scanlation sites gives 23,000 visits all told to their version of this manga -- I won't give the site. That's a lot. And that is what we mean by "notabiity." This manga is NOT a high school kid's cartoon in a high school newspaper. Timothy Perper (talk) 06:27, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

You are wrong. First comes "Verifiability" which is backed by one of the 5 pillars of Wikipedia and is a policy while "Notability" is just a guideline. "Verifiability" can only be asserted by Reliable Sources. Now lets go to AfD and someone says this manga scanlation is very popular. Then prove it with a Reliable Source or this argument has no value at all. There is no room for ambiguous position: I want to prove notability by using a fact that can't be proved & asserted with a Reliable Source. --KrebMarkt 06:44, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Strikes me you're being a bit dogmatic about knowing everything about Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a religion based on "Reliable Sources" -- for example, I just got 170,000 hits searching Google for "Boku no Futatsu no Tsubasa." That's a lot of notability. Is it "verifiable"? Sure -- just repeat the Google search and see what you get. But -- and this is much more important -- I do not feel comfortable using Malkinann's talk page to argue with you. We are, I think, intruding into her space. So if you want to continue the discussion, please put it on my talk page instead. Timothy Perper (talk) 07:10, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Let's conclude it now. I won't convince you nor you will me. The only way to settle will be AfDs and how many times your argumentation will be accepted or rejected there. --KrebMarkt 07:35, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

@Malkinann
Sincere apologize to you, Malkinann. Drop me a line if you need anything as usual. --KrebMarkt 07:35, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Reliability, Notability, and so on

Thanks for the reference to reliable sources. I think I had seen it -- it seemed familiar. For an encyclopedia that depends on user input, Wiki seems strangely schizy about sources!

As far as I can tell, all this stuff comes from the early days of Wikipedia when the founders were trying to prevent a variety of uses they didn't want. One was having people put up long strange articles on "My Theory of the Universe" or "Why God Exists" or "A New View of the Civil War in America" -- which they collectively called "original research" and banned. The "verifiability" criterion was created to prevent loonies from telling us all about the aliens who live on the Moon and they know they're there because they dreamed about them. "Reliability" was designed to prevent other loonies from using crackpot sources like Nostradamus or "The Protocols of Zion" as sources. And "notability" was put in to prevent people from writing wonderful little essays about their pet cat (or parakeet) and all the cute things it does. But all these got changed over the years as various mutually hostile editors discovered they could assault each other using all these terms. It's a shame, because the original idea behind Wikipedia -- that people could create an encyclopedia of reliable knowledge -- sounded like a good idea at the time. But it has proved utopian, a pipe dream, and IMO never came true. That list of "reliable" writers on manga and anime is laughable (and offensive) -- it leaves out so many people. But I'm not going to argue with them about it. Timothy Perper (talk) 11:05, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Most of the academics I know who write on manga and anime. I'm including both because all the major writers in the area move back and forth, like Gilles Poitras, who came to my mind first. But I am very reluctant to get into an argument concerning these people and their credentials. I know many of them (including Gilles), and am NOT neutral. Concerning the little cockle shell thingie: KAWAIIII! Timothy Perper (talk) 11:58, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
I do not feel comfortable suggesting names because I do not feel comfortable suggesting that Wikipedia editors have the general or specific competence to evaluate the work of these people. Forgive me if that sounds high-handed, but writers and experts like Susan J. Napier, Thomas Lamarre, Kinko Ito, or Jaqueline Berndt, among many others, so far outrank the people here who might "evaluate" them here that it is not appropriate for me to suggest it. It's like asking college students if they think that Professor Napier is "competent" to teach a course in manga and anime. That is not their decision. In contrast, if they take her course, then Napier gets to grade them, not the other way round.
This is, as I think you can see, a very touchy, ticklish area. Many -- not all, but many -- Wikipedia editors treat themselves as world-class experts, setting themselves up over other people as judges of other people's competence, knowledge, and expertise. I assure you that some of the academic experts I'm thinking about would be amused by the very idea that Wiki editors are judging them, but others will be seriously offended. Please understand, Malkinann, if I choose not to involve myself in such things.
The answer for most of these academic experts is that of course they are incontrovertibly authoritative in what they write. They may also, from time to time, be wrong, but if you suggest that, believe me, you'd better have your ducks lined up, meaning you'd better have all your data, facts, and references absolutely right before you even suggest it. I am, as I think you know, an editor on Mechademia and something of an authority in my own right in certain areas of manga. But not even I will willingly tell any of these folks that they're wrong -- and I have had that opportunity not infrequently when editing their work (as I have done). Matt Thorn could do it also, and he would be just as cautious as I am.
The care and feeding of senior academic experts is a real skill, and I will not lightly enter into that arena in the context of Wikipedia. I hope you understand. Thanks for asking, but I have to demur. Timothy Perper (talk) 14:12, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

RE:Nausicaä

Ok after 30 mins on it, i think that would do.

If you are going to include the rest of the French article Good luck as it's going to be complex. --KrebMarkt 21:40, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

I did not read the manga so i can't effectively answer from the context. However i feel the meaning conveyed in the line of "put in contrast with his incapable father". Does it help? --KrebMarkt 22:10, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Yea, sort of foil that enhance further Nausicaä --KrebMarkt 06:08, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

BRD

I am concerned that you have reverted edits at

bold, revert, discuss and explain at the talk page of the respective articles just why you think the material you have added is appropriate for Wikipedia. I'm not going to edit-war over the issue but in the absence of any sensible explanation your edits might be seen as disruptive. Kenilworth Terrace (talk
) 06:34, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

I added some discussion to the Magog (Andromeda) talk page plus some examples. There's an unspoken custom on Wiki that the "source" for plot summaries is the TV show itself. See the talk page. Timothy Perper (talk) 17:55, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Even if there were such undocumented exceptions to core policies, this Magog material is not a plot summary. Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 21:39, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
May I suggest that you not use User: Malkinann's talk page for discussing this issue? I am concerned that this discussion is an uninvited intrusion into her space. Timothy Perper (talk) 22:53, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Hyakujitsu no Bara

I missed this one.

It was deleted as

Hyakujitsu no Bara
in December 2009. DMP released it in English in May 2010.

I did a review search today and found nothing save for a comicattack review which is a disputed source for reviews. Even if that one counted it won't be enough to pass the GNG or WP:BK.

I asking you to see what you can find on your side. At the worst i will take the responsibility to take this one to AfD as pointers suggest that it's a miss in the North America market. Thanks. --KrebMarkt (talk) 09:24, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

CSE results. --Gwern (contribs) 09:46 19 July 2010 (GMT)
Last minute thought, i will wait for volume 2 release (end of July) and see if to have both volumes available will stir some interest from reviewers. --KrebMarkt (talk) 04:55, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Long shot

Hey, you added this ref to the

talk ~ contribs
) 06:28, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

See Crimson_Spell#References. --Gwern (contribs) 06:42 27 July 2010 (GMT)
Thanks, that helped me find the new link. Updated both articles. --
talk ~ contribs
) 06:52, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

A video

Year 24 Group, explained by Moto Hagio herself

A pity that getting the RS stamp for this website would be a headache as this person is conducting a lot of mangaka interviews.

Note:I should stop lurking the web for unexpected stuff. --KrebMarkt 22:02, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Don't miss this one

Matt Thorn: What do you want to ask Moto Hagio?

Cheers :) --KrebMarkt 19:49, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Not so far away

Advance copies are out :) --KrebMarkt (talk) 18:03, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Katherine Dacey's review --KrebMarkt (talk) 13:48, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Two images

one two I hope that made you smile. --KrebMarkt (talk) 13:33, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Your opinion sought

Original English-language manga -- I have a note on the talk page about some manga in Arabic. Come over and give your opinions. Timothy Perper (talk) 17:02, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

It got moved. It's here now -- Talk:Manga outside Japan. Timothy Perper (talk) 21:18, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Many thanks, Malkinann. I agree with you. There doesn't seem to be a natural home for "Arabic Manga" in any of the articles I've seen. And there isn't enough to start a new article -- it'd just get deleted. Timothy Perper (talk) 07:16, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Put in a short paragraph at Manga outside Japan. Thanks for adding the "globalize" tag. Timothy Perper (talk) 08:49, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Native Brazilian manga

Would you like some references to manga done in Brazil? I haven't the time to work them up for inclusion in the Manga outside Japan article, but perhaps you do. If so, let me know and I'll put them here. Timothy Perper (talk) 13:48, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks... no hurry. I gathered these a while ago, hoping I'd be able to use them, but not enough time...

http://www.educacional.com.br/reportagens/japao/cultura.asp

O mangá invade o Brasil

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Erica Awano

http://www.glasshousegraphics.com/creators/pencilers/Erica%20Awano/index.htm

Brazilian-born mangaka of Japanese background. She has also done comics for TokyoPop and Dynamic Forces (Alice in Wonderland, 1-4).

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http://brasil.blogalaxia.com/busca/manga --how to draw manga, in Portuguese; it was up a few days ago.

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MANGÁ TROPICAL -- which is a magazine.

http://www.universohq.com/quadrinhos/2004/review_manga_tropical.cfm

MANGA TROPICAL

Título: Manga Tropical

Autor: Via Lettera


Hope you can use 'em somehow!
Timothy Perper (talk) 22:39, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Tasmanian devil book

bilby (talk · contribs) has got hold of pdfs of the book. I can email it to you if you want, although you have to email me first because wikimail direct doesn't allow for attachments YellowMonkey (new photo poll) 08:34, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Emailed. Just looked at your mail and qualifications. Can you look at FA things like
Australian Green Tree Frog, Emu etc. They seem in need of repair, which would be done most efficiently from a person trained in biology/environment YellowMonkey (new photo poll
) 02:08, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Echidna and the platypus one at Category:FA-Class_Australian_biota_articles also look questionable YellowMonkey (new photo poll) 02:09, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Book present from Bilby delivered

YellowMonkey (new photo poll) 03:03, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

You are receiving this because you have commented on either

Transsexual sexuality, which would be to focus on the subject in general). Please feel free to comment on the proposal at Talk:Autogynephilia#Merger proposal. -- 70.57.222.103 (talk
) 20:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Yume Tsukai analytical concourse

Many salutations!!! I am pleased that you have taken an interest in my newly-emancipated brainchild; still, I do have to wonder the rationale behind its newly-created talk page. I am at a loss for what there is to further discuss about the »Yume Tsukai« episode synopsis page; I would be extremely grateful for any insight you can provide in this regard.

Dairi no Kenkyo (talk) 21:20, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

There's nothing mysterious about it. It was created so it could be tagged as part of the
Join WikiProject Japan
! 15:44, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

{{unreferenced}} tags

Please put these at the top of pages per standard practice. Article tags, which is what these are meant to be, are always placed there.Jinnai 17:06, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Devil

not sure what else is needed YellowMonkey (new photo poll) 08:34, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Template:Sect-stub listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect

Template:Sect-stub. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Sect-stub redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Magioladitis (talk
) 15:30, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Japanese yaoi article

Hi Malkinann; I came across a copy of the Japanese magazine Queer Japan that has Akiko Mizoguchi's 2000 article Homophobic Homos, Rapes of Love, and Queer Lesbians: An Analysis of Recent Yaoi Texts, which seems to be quite interesting (and also an interview with Akimi Yoshida), but it's in Japanese. If you know of anyone fluent in Japanese who is interested in the article for the betterment of Wikipedia, could you point me to them? Thanks, JRBrown (talk) 17:01, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Changes to Cite Hansard

You've made a fairly significant amendment to this template by adding the jusrisdiction field to it. However, have you added it correctly? I'm no expert in amending templates but I would have thought that the desirible outcome was for the jusrisdiction element to be ignored if blank which doesn't appear to be the case. Looking at an article where the template is used it now has {{{jurisdiction}}}, Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, 13 July 1888 , columns 1279–1281 which I suspect was not your intention. can you investigate and amend if necessary, thanks. NtheP (talk) 11:51, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

I was trying to bring {{
cite hansard}} more in line with this and this and this style guideline, in which jurisdiction is compulsary. I tried to make it an optional field, but could not manage to do so. --Malkinann (talk
) 19:04, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
In Australia perhaps but it's not needed in the UK for example. Can we agree to remove it from the template or get soemone else to fix it to make it optional? NtheP (talk) 20:51, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

help me

{{Help me}} I need some help making the |jurisdiction field in {{

cite hansard
}} optional, for some reason it doesn't want to work when I try. It goes

like this

or

, Parliamentary Debates, etc. etc. Thank you for any help! --Malkinann (talk) 21:21, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Done, I think. Not sure how it's used, so please tell me on my talk page if it's still not right. /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 21:35, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Much better, thanks. NtheP (talk) 08:43, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

a few questions

at the current articles of NGE are out there, what do you think about the usage of quotes in the main article?

another question i would like to ask if how to actually AfD an article, instead of just a proposal>

talk
) 00:43, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

I see quotes the same as images, it's not always a matter of meeting the rationale, it's whether we should use so many. Just like how there can be too many images, there can be too many quotes. Plus the usage of quotes in NGE is different then the usual. It quotes the entire thing instead of the key points and it uses them in the body rather than an example. I have yet to see this in an anime/manga article that is at least B rank. Too many quotes also disrupts the flow of the article.
As for WP:BEFORE, and i've already checked on it. It seems it is defintely worth getting AfD and I have had others supported it but not actually putting the AfD tag themselves. THe problem with the timeline is that it's not really notable, or even a notable aspect in NGE. One of the main issues is the NGE gloasary. it's a dumping ground of everything that isn't notable enough to merit it's own article and filled with various trivial aspects of NGE.
talk
) 05:04, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
I already added my view on it. I still suggest deletion. there just isn't enough coverage or enough reception on the timeline.
AS for the quotes, i think they should have a limited use too, just like images and other templates. A portion may be used, but it's still a large ammount from what we see in the NGE articles. Reception sections usually quote specific key points and not separated from the paragraph, i just don't know why we can't summarize them and more easier to understand. Plus this is leaning to more of "why not" situation.
talk
) 05:28, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering, if only one objects and doesn't reply back, that should be consensus enough.
talk
) 10:50, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Very well, i'll see if i can find another editor to contribute.
talk
) 10:58, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Ah, thank you. your efforts are greatly appreciated.
talk
) 11:02, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

GAR reply

i have read it several times, but i have a phobia of proposing, but i'll try and see if i could do it again. Problem is, i can't fix the problems in the GAR as fast as most.

talk
) 05:13, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi,

Thanks for you help on Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu.

Furthermore can you give a second look to the article as i think there is material for a DYK.

Thanks again. --KrebMarkt (talk) 19:56, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK?

Any idea for the DYK hook? i'm running out of brain juice.

  • That
    Tora-san
    ".

So much i'm running out of brain juice. You can drop a line in DYK if you have more inspiration than i. Thanks --KrebMarkt (talk) 22:21, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Mizoguchi paper

Cool, thanks! I went to YaoiCon and caught the last half of a panel by Mizoguchi, although it was mostly chit-chat by the time I got there. I've also managed to get ahold of a her article in the US-Japan Women's Journal, “Male-Male Romance by and for Women in Japan: A History and the Sub-Genres of Yaoi Fictions” (along with a couple of others); it looks juicy but haven't had time to really read it yet. - JRBrown (talk) 23:39, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Question for administrator

I'd like to take

copyvio-histpurge}} template on the page, but my past experience indicates that this will not take place within the DYK window. Could you please delete the portion of the history with copyright violations? --Malkinann (talk
) 01:53, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Done. --Stephen 02:23, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
I have zero knowledge of DYK procedure so best ask there ;) --Stephen 02:30, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
I'm on the same timezone, so let me know if there's anything else I can help with in the future. --Stephen 03:05, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

NGE quotes

i made a section about the over usage of quotes and which ones i think should be booted out or not in quote format in the main

talk
) 08:27, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Ok i will.

talk
) 16:50, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm afraid someoen might not agree to the edits i do. but if it doesn't require discussion, then that should be easy.

talk
) 22:46, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

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