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It's been talked about multiple times on the wiki before, but nothing ever got finalized to a point where we could say we had an actual policy or consensus. So I'm going to give the quotes policy discussion a push and see if we can come up with a consensus on implementing rules around use of quotes sections on the wiki.
For note, old quotes discussions: Forum:Quotes and Forum:Quotes, Romanji, and Naming#Quotes.
- We had another discussion on some random character talkpage, but I can't remember which one.
To start, I'll try to list the issues with the quote sections:
- There are a number of pointless quotes inside quote sections. Not just quotes which aren't really significant to a character, but ones that are downright useless like them shouting the name of a jutsu.
- A lot of the quotes aren't even verified properly. Quite frankly, I have a strong feeling that there are a large number of quotes on the wiki that aren't literal quotes. They've either been modified by some random person, or are a fangroups interpretation of a character's words which means they aren't even a proper quote, and don't even match up with the official English.
Here is the guidelines under my proposal:
- All quotes will be put into a Quotes:''Character Name'' namespace just like we have Infobox:''Character Name''.
- Just like with the new character infobox setup quotes will be included in a page using a {{Quotes}} template.
- Pages in this namespace will be automatically protected so only sysops can modify the quotes.
- This is done to prevent the huge pile of unverified quotes that slip into pages. There is no real other reliable way to handle this than that.
- If a staff can't do this, we'll probably try to make use of cascading protection and work around what that would to do articles by using lst/dpl rather than standard transclusion.
- New quotes can be suggested in sections on the relevant Quotes talk:''Character Name'' page.
- Obviously pointless quotes like characters shouting jutsu names will be outright rejected.
- The quote section on the talkpage must contain...
- ...a proper rationale as to why the quote is relevant to that character.
- ...a precise citation to where the quote can be found (Chapter and Page, Series, Episode #, and ideally a relative location in the episode)
- Quotes must come from a proper official source.
- Quotes from fansubs and scanalations will be rejected as they are not proper quotes from the characters, but are rather translations by a fan group which 99.99% of the time is not the same as the actual quote that is placed into official media.
- ..thus, quotes must be from:
- The official English translated manga.
- The official English anime dub.
- Or the official English anime subtitles now being broadcast on crunchyroll and directly by viz on sites like hulu.
Suggestions, feedback, and agreements to show we have consensus are welcome. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Apr 6, 2009 @ 06:41 (UTC)
- I completely agree with this setup, wish I could help with the implimention when a quote has been verified. If for some reason though that this doesn't work we should just elimante the quote section entirely.
¥Super Novice ↔ Talk 2 Me¥14:52, 6 April 2009 (UTC) - Dantman I think I found one of the Talkpages you were talking about here:
- It may be one of those.
¥Super Novice ↔ Talk 2 Me¥16:24, 6 April 2009 (UTC)