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Contents 1 Answers I keep easily available for different reasons 1.1 What are the smaller symbols over larger ones for? 1.2 Narutopedia Ranks 1.3 Parallels to "foreign" games and series 2 Re: Problem 3 Re: Block 4 Re: Tossing the question to a random sysop (that's you! you're one lucky bunny.) 5 Snapper2 deleted? 6 sasuke with itachi eyes 7 RE:Sign message

[edit] Answers I keep easily available for different reasons

[edit] What are the smaller symbols over larger ones for?

I had to ask ShonenSuki something, and I happened to see your post while I was there. I can't read kanji or any other Japanese writing, but I do know that those smaller symbols are called furigana. They're used to help the reader with pronunciation, I think. Darth Havoc (talk) 04:07, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Darth Havoc is right, the smaller signs are furigana, usually written in hiragana or katakana. The basically show how a kanji is supposed to be pronounced. For example, the kanji 人柱力 (jinchūriki) would have the hiragana じんちゅうりき as the furigana. However, they can also be used to bring more nuance to the text. To take 人柱力 as an example again: it wouldn't be strange to see these kanji with the katakana ナルト (Naruto), for example when an Akatsuki member is talking about Naruto as the jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails. I've also seen the kanji for younger brother (弟, otōto) and older brother (兄, ani) with the names for Sasuke and Itachi as furigana, or those of Gaara and Kankurō. --ShounenSuki ^{(talk | contribs)} 09:40, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Narutopedia Ranks

Those are obsolete. We used to alias bureaucrat=kage, sysop=jonin, rollback=tokubetsu jonin, user=genin, anon=academy student just for some fun. However I removed this recently because people started to ask for "chunin exams" and "promotions" and were turning simple permission flags into a social status game. The userboxes were created then. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) ^(talk) May 16, 2009 _@ 19:17 ^(UTC)

[edit] Parallels to "foreign" games and series

Some people tend to add parallels to other games and serieses hinting that Naruto is some kind of a rip-off of that game or series. From the top of my head I can only recall the parallel put to some monster in Dragon Ball called Ino Shika Cho, some minor (I think) Naruto character had "strong resembelence" to some Bleach character, and then we have these quotes: "Rock Lee (like several other characters through the series) hold a strong resemble and may even be based off of video game character Wangtang from Capcom's Arcade game, Power Stone. (...)". Are these things okay to have in the articles, or should they be removed? ~Hakinu ^{(talk | contribs)} 21:13, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Those kind of statements are pure speculation, they have no basis to them. Frankly you can round up a few dozen anime/manga/games, look for similarities between characters in them, and you're almost guaranteed to find some. If you're looking for something you're going to find it, that doesn't mean it's at all relevant to the series. If someone had some citation that Kishimoto was influenced by something, coming from an interview, then ya it makes a good trivia note. But comparing naruto to X of Y type of media and saying that part of naruto MIGHT be based on it, is junk. There's far more complexity to that, it could be completely random, or it could be that both of the things were influenced by the same thing, that doesn't mean any relevance between them. For example, Soul Eater has Shinigami, Bleach has Shinigami, and Death Note has Shinigami. All are based of Japanese Shinigami, that doesn't mean that the series have any connection to each other or were based on each other in any way. While this one is obvious a lot of these subtle "might be based off of" may actually be because there was something they both were based on in Japanese myth which we, as foreigners are not familiar with. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) ^(talk) Jun 3, 2009 _@ 21:22 ^(UTC)

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[edit] Re: Problem

It's the "report a problem with this page" tab at the top of every article. The problems themselves are listed at Special:ProblemReports. As you can see, it's not used much. I assume it's a way for people unfamiliar with wikis to bring a problem to others' attention. ~SnapperTo 00:12, December 1, 2009 (UTC)

Mine is located on the bottom right, above rate an article. Simant (talk) 00:33, December 1, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Block

ShounenSuki fixed it. Jacce | Talk 22:13, December 4, 2009 (UTC)

Blocked. Jacce | Talk 07:07, December 11, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Tossing the question to a random sysop (that's you! you're one lucky bunny.)

You probably went to the wrong person for this then. Heh. Anyway, both in universe and out, when people who sustain typical amounts of damage that would result in death (decapitation, heart being pierced by lightning, cut in half ect) they are considered dead, unless we have a reason to NOT think their dead (for example, Kakashi during the Invasion of Pain. All evidence looked like he was dead. Then they kept showing us his corpse, constantly raising doubt on his he was dead or not.)--TheUltimate3 (talk) 01:00, December 6, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Snapper2 deleted?

I left a explanation on TheBlueBlur's talk page. Jacce | Talk 06:31, December 9, 2009 (UTC)

Nice to have it solved. And you are right, when the amount of sections is closing into 40, it is probably time to archiving. :) Jacce | Talk 14:32, December 9, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] sasuke with itachi eyes

i copy it from the website narutoget. i dont see the problem...

[edit] RE:Sign message

What do you mean /Torune

Okay i understand thank you--I work for Foundation (talk) 20:51, December 13, 2009 (UTC)