Wikipedia:WikiProject Dragon Ball

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Welcome to WikiProject Dragon Ball (WP:DBZ for short), a WikProject that aims to organize, expand, clean up, and guide Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can simply start by editing any Dragon Ball, or join the project below and/or contribute to the discussion on the talk page. Be sure to also check out the to-do list for some of the project's ongoing tasks.

You may also be interested in joining our parent project, WikiProject Anime and manga, which is dedicated to all anime and manga articles on Wikipedia.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

1 Title
2 Scope
3 Parentage
4 Related groups of Wikipedians
5 Related pages in Sister projects
- 5.1 Sister Project Searches
6 Members
7 Article structure
8 Hierarchy definition
9 Goals
- 9.1 Ultimate goals
- 9.2 Big projects
- 9.3 Tasks
- 9.4 Articles that require attention
10 Projects
11 Tasks
12 Adopt an article
13 General strategy and discussion forums
14 Other subpages
15 Templates
- 15.1 Infoboxes
- 15.2 Stub templates
- 15.3 Other templates
16 Categories
17 Lists
18 Articles
- 18.1 Wikipedia articles on Dragon Ball
- 18.2 Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Dragon Ball
- 18.3 New Wikipedia articles related to Dragon Ball
- 18.4 Did you know?
- 18.5 Article improvement drive
- 18.6 Collaboration of the week
- 18.7 Peer review
- 18.8 Featured articles
  - 18.8.1 Featured article candidates
- 18.9 Featured pictures
  - 18.9.1 Featured picture candidates
- 18.10 Featured lists
  - 18.10.1 Featured list candidates
19 Wikipedia surveys
- 19.1 Ad hoc surveys
- 19.2 Ongoing Wikipedia surveys
  - 19.2.1 Deletion links
    - 19.2.1.1 WikiProject Deletion sorting
20 Requests
21 Resources
22 Dragon Ball Meetups
23 Archives
24 Sister Project links

[edit] Title

WikiProject on Dragon Ball

The Tori Bot - official logo of the WikiProject Dragon Ball

[edit] Scope

Dragon Ball is a Japanese metaseries. It began as a weekly serialized manga (42 tankoban volumes), then adapted to an anime (three series, three TV specials, 17 feature films), and spawned dozens of home and arcade video games, toys, clothing, and other merchandise. Dragon Ball has been translated into dozens of languages in many countries.

All information should be based on the original versions. Mainly, this will mean the Japanese versions (though at least one video game will refer to the English version). Because there are so many, no single English adaptation can be used as the English version. Besides the out-of-print adaptations, there are at least three English anime dubs and another company doing the manga, as well as another company translating the video games (which has been inconsistent at best). It would be inappropriate to pick any single distribution company over another.

The scope of the project will extend to include the manga, anime, video games merchandise. More specificly, the project will include:

The manga, television anime, feature films, video games, music
The Dragon Ball universe in general
Individual characters and other elements
Use of mythology, geology, and other inspirations within the series
Dragon Ball as a cultural phenomenon
English language adaptation of the metaseries

While not specifically part of the project (as such articles are not focused on Dragon Ball), the following topics should be looked into as well:

Cast, crew, distribution companies, production companies of Dragon Ball related items.

Our scope does not include:

Fanfiction and fan culture
Doujinshi
Any other form of speculation
Adaptations into any language other than Japanese and English
Works with only a passing reference to Dragon Ball

[edit] Parentage

This WikiProject is conceptually descended from Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga and its policies and best practices should be used whenever possible.

[edit] Related groups of Wikipedians

No related Wikipedians have been named.

[edit] Related pages in Sister projects

[edit] Sister Project Searches

[edit] Members

If you are a member, or would like to join this WikiProject, please sign your name below. Please list only your name in alphabetical order:

[edit] Article structure

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and Manga#Article_structure for inspiration.

For each page type, we have a "template" article. These articles should be the focus of structural improvements, which can then be imitated in other articles of the same type. Many articles are far too long and there is no over arching style. They also come under criticism for being "In-Universe". anything that can be written about from a real-world perspective should be written that way.

To repeat: All information should be based on the original versions. Mainly, this will mean the Japanese versions (though at least one video game will refer to the English version). Because there are so many, no single English adaptation can be used as the English version. Besides the out-of-print adaptations, there are at least three English anime dubs and another company doing the manga, as well as another company translating the video games (which has been inconsistent at best). It would be inappropriate to pick any single distribution company over another.

Character lists - Characters with too little information (Bubbles, Lime) to warrant a full page should be in a single list page (as opposed to the several we have now). Instead of the dozen list pages we have now, we should consolodate every character into one list. The list page should separate characters by species, then alphabetically. The list should not be broken up based on manga-only characters, anime-only characters, movie-only characters, etc. Each entry should give a brief recap of their involvement in the series, character traits, explanation of their name pun, as well as a quick note as to which media they appear in.

see example

Character pages - Main characters (Goku, Gohan), and any other character with enough information (Oob, Oolong) should receive their own page. Each page should give a brief (three paragraphs maximum) recap of their involvement in the entire series, describe character traits, talk about the character's techniques, transformations, and the like, as well as a separate section detailing the charater's name pun (original pun word, kana changes, possible romanizations, etc)

see example

Chapter/Volume pages - I think articles recapping single chapters would be of great benefit to the project. But, that's a lot of pages; perhaps only Volume or even just arc summaries would be sufficient.

see example

Episode/Arc pages - At this point it's unclear whether each episode should have it's own page or if story arc pages would be sufficient. Many other anime articles have single episode pages

see example

Movies - Each feature film should have its own page. -

see example

Dragon Ball media - a separate page (preferably more than a list) detailing the release structure of the manga (Jump, tankoban, kanzenban), anime, movies, sup. books, video games, music compilations, etc. Page should be rather short, detailed information can be split off to separate pages.

see example

Music - I think a page listing and explaining the music (BGM, opening/closing themes,) would be big enough for it's own page.

see example

Video Game pages - each Dragon Ball video game should have its own page. Special attention should be given to the 'Budokai series'. We will have to keep the English game names, so it should be made clear in the opening paragraph the 'Budokai' 1, 2, and 3 are actually DragonBall Z games, and are not part of the same 'series' as the 'Budokai Tenkaichi' or Sparking! series. Special editions of games should be included as sections in the regular game's article.

see example

Supplemental Books - there should be a page detailing the daizenshuu, world guides, landmark, and other supplemental books.

see example

Template - the templates seen on the Dragon Ball pages now, while good, are too large and there should only be one, not two (or three). One bottom template needs to be consolidated for the whole metaseries.

see example

English adaptations - There should be a separate and distinct page detailing the different English adaptations of Dragon Ball. Including which company distributed where, when, differences from the Japanese version, censorship issues, etc.

see example

"Other" - Pages beyond these types of pages will probably be unique..

[edit] Hierarchy definition

[edit] Goals

[edit] Ultimate goals

Create a well-organized corner of Wikipedia that is not ridiculed by the rest of the Internet
Gradually increase the quality of each section

[edit] Big projects

Create template pages for different article types
Delete orphaned or useless articles
Merge small articles

[edit] Tasks

For when you have a small amount of time...

Cite anything you can in any article! This is more important than adding info!
Italicize every instance of the Dragon Ball series name
Take out references to dub names (ie: " Mr. Satan (known as 'Hercule' in the English dub) ")
Look for and suggest better (matching!) lead images for the main characters
Vote!
Italicize (''term'') terms borrowed from the Japanese, as per Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Foreign_terms.

[edit] Articles that require attention

All of them, basically
Articles that have no purpose on Wikipedia (I've come across a few throught the category tree)
Rip-off articles and images. Many articles have taken images and information off of other web sites without properly citeing such. The Dragon Ball Timeline in particular needs a complete rewrite (which I'm doing).

[edit] Projects

[edit] Tasks

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

Example article: User:Example

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

/General
/Strategy

[edit] Other subpages

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

{{subst:template}}
e.g.{{Infobox Dragon Ball}}

[edit] Stub templates

e.g. {{Dragon Ball-stub}}
{{Dragon Ball-stub}}
- and the associated stub category Category:Dragon Ball stubs

[edit] Other templates

{{template}}

Template:TemplateDragon Ball

[edit] Categories

Category:Dragon Ball

[edit] Lists

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Dragon Ball

Dragon Ball

[edit] Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Dragon Ball

Wikipedia:Dragon Ball
meta:Dragon Ball

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Dragon Ball

Please feel free to list your new Dragon Ball-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] Did you know?

[edit] Article improvement drive

[edit] Collaboration of the week

[edit] Peer review

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Featured pictures

[edit] Featured picture candidates

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Featured list candidates

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Ad hoc surveys

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

Requested moves:
Requests for Comments:

[edit] Deletion links

Articles for deletion (Article deletion):
Deletion review (Article undeletion}:
Templates for deletion:
Categories for deletion:
Images for deletion:
Redirects for deletion:

[edit] WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Dragon Ball-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Dragon Ball.