Please keep your responses even more neatly-written, clear, and concise than we already expect elsewhere on the forum.
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Please answer and discuss the following questions (and/or respond with more questions we should think about) regarding pages on the future wiki for characters in the series:
- What information about a character's name should be included (spellings, adaptations, pun source, etc.), if at all?
- What information about the design/look of the character should be included, if at all?
- What information about their appearance (meaning their debut and/or removal) in the series should be included, if at all?
- What information about their appearances in media other than the series itself should be included, if at all?
- What information about their relationships to other characters in the series should be included, if at all?
- If a small box were to be included toward the top of the article, what essential information should be included (traditionally name, first appearance, etc.)?
- What information about a characters usage of special techniques should be included, if at all?
- What type of production information (voice actors, character designers, etc.) should be included, if at all?
- What type of analysis of the character, either by Kanzenshuu staff, community members, or professional/industry members should be included, if at all?
- What is an appropriate length (rough number of sentences/paragraphs) for any and all of the above types of information inclusions?
PROPOSED STRUCTURE / (VERY ROUGH) DRAFT EXAMPLE FOR WIKI CHARACTER PAGES:
Sidebar Box
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Appule
Dragon Ball character
Japanese Name アプール (Apūru)
Manga Debut Dragon Ball Chapter 247
Anime Debut Dragon Ball Z Episode 46
Biography
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Appule is an alien henchman that serves under Freeza. He goes on reconnaissance missions and performs tasks within Freeza's ship upon request, such as calling the Ginyu Special Force and tending to Vegeta in the rejuvenation chamber. Appule is killed by Vegeta upon his breaking out of the chamber.
Name
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Appule (アプール) is a pun on the English word "apple" (FOREVER citation here). Whereas "apple" is written as アップル (appuru) with a double "pp" sound, the character's name is written as アプール (apūru) with an elongated vowel sound in the middle. As a nod to the pun source, Kanzenshuu keeps the double "pp" from "apple" in our romanization of the name. To preserve the long vowel sound as the end, we append an "e" in the "ule" of our spelling.
(Production?)
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Explanation here of character's appearance, and role split with Oran between the manga and the anime. Where appropriate, things like who initially designed the character if not Akira Toriyama, notes about their design or conception, etc.
(Abilities/Techniques?)
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What gets listed here? For characters that seemingly have none, do we list video game techniques? Do we list video game exclusive techniques even for characters like Goku who have dozens already?
Performance
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Detail of original Z versus Kai actors here.
(Notable Appearances?)
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Inclusion in updated Wii version of "Sparking! NEO", kept in "METEOR", and some figure releases (like "Freeza's Force")