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Sailor Planet Attack and other group attacks

I just noticed, we don't have any listing for the Sailor Planet Attack or Sailor Teleport as such this raises the question. What do we do with group attacks. Sailor Planet attack and Sailor Teleport are particularly annoying as they can be used with from two up too all the Senshi. So It seems Sailor Moon is the Key particpant in those though. Should we list them on her page? On everyones page? Engrave them into the moon? Lego3400: The Sage of Time 17:24, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Yikes, good question. Maybe the Sailor Senshi page...? Maybe the arc pages? --Masamage 01:05, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
I guess we can list team attacks on Usagi's page... Although, she didn't participate in the attack when Rei and the others were abducted by Rubeus. -SaturnYoshi THE VOICES 08:20, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Really... Crap... I was sure she was involved everytime they used that attack (Was that in the manga cause I Know she is always the first to speak her phrase to start the attack in the anime, and the Moonstick is the where they foucus the energy in PGSM so she has to be in it in that...)Lego3400: The Sage of Time 16:38, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
I really don't like the idea of putting them all on Usagi's page. :T --Masamage 17:00, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Put it on the Sailor Team page!  ;) Actually, what should we do about songs that are duets etc.?- Malkinann 00:54, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Hmm. I think songs are safe staying on each individual's page, with a mention that it's a duet. Which I guess means that group attacks are probably also safe to list in a similar way? --Masamage 00:58, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Should we list group attacks on every participants page, then? -SaturnYoshi THE VOICES 10:31, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't think so. That would be overkill. --  Denelson83  11:21, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
You think so? I wouldn't mind it, though I see your point. I don't know where else to put it, though. It'd take a pretty serious restructuring of Sailor Senshi for it to work there... --Masamage 18:31, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Well, that "Unnamed Beam attack" from PGSM is listed on everyone's page that participated in it. As well as the Saturn/Pluto "Galactica Cannon" attack. -SaturnYoshi THE VOICES 09:29, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

The unnamed beam attaks weren't group attacks. They were indivual attacks that they luanched at the same time. (Mecury kept trying even when Mars had given up (Usagi had gone to fetch Mako-Chan)Lego3400: The Sage of Time 16:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

List v GA status

The pain this is but the lists look bad... Any ideas how to fix them? I mean the stats, the attacks list, etc... all of these things are being disputed and being said these are going to get in the way of GA status. Any ideas? --Hitsuji Kinno 05:55, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Attacks probably have to remain in list-form, unless someone thinks of something brilliant. I was able to shorten the Statistics section of Ami's profile by comparing it to the infobox. As for the rest of the content, maybe the next thing to do is convert the list to prose? Here's an experiment on Ami's section:
"Sailor Mercury is given specific titles throughout the series, including Soldier of Wisdom,[cite] Soldier of Justice and Wisdom,[cite] and Soldier of Water and Knowledge.[cite] Her image gemstone is listed as sapphire,[cite] and she uses the element of water (including ice).
"As Ami, her love of academics extends even to her hobbies, which include reading, playing chess, and swimming.[cite] Computers are her strong point; she even belongs to the club at school.[cite] She loves all her classes, especially math,[cite] and dreams of one day being a doctor. Her favorite foods are given as sandwiches and anmitsu, with her least favorite being yellowtail (hamachi, a kind of fish). Other loves include cats[cite] and the color aquamarine, but she has trouble with love letters in general. Ami stands 158 centimeters tall (5'2")[cite] and is blood type A.[cite]"
Something like that? --Masamage 20:58, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Furthermore, I think it would be a good idea to make the Statistics section a subsection of the profile. In fact, if they're turned into prose, maybe they could just be merged straight in, with no section separation at all? Also, the Senshi titles probably ought to be merged into the "Sailor *" sections, as should the 'element' field. Maybe even the gemstone. I've given that a whirl at Ami's page; how's it look? --Masamage 22:15, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, it's been a few weeks. If no one protests, I'd like to start turning the stats sections to prose and merging them with the profiles. That will do a lot to solve both the "too many lists" problem and the "too much emphasis on trivial information" problem. Since it's still the holidays, I'll work slowly to allow some time for discussion. Assuming there are no objections, I hope to start with Ami's article, since that's the draft people have already seen, on either Saturday or Sunday. If it's well-received, I'll start work on the others' next Wednesday, January 3rd. Does that all sound okay? --Masamage 06:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Got a late start, due to having a houseguest and getting sick (woo!), but I'm going to merge up Ami's stats section today and start on everyone else this weekend. --Masamage 17:54, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
I'll cheer you on since I'm busy... --Hitsuji Kinno 04:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Yay, I appreciate that! --Masamage 04:22, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Evil Sailor Senshi

How should we handle the brief brainwashing that happens in Stars? It's not really a separate form, and it certainly has no title. My though is to just add it to the Affiliations part of the infobox, a la "Shadow Galactica (when brainwashed)". Does that seem okay? Or is 'brainwashed' the wrong term for what happened? --Masamage 21:05, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Well we have Mamo and Ami listed under Dark Kingdom for their breif stints there and Chibi-Usa under Dark Moon Clan for her time as black lady... I belive Hotaru is also listed under Death busters for her time as Mistress 9. So yeah that sounds fine.... That brings up an idea.. A Temporay Afiliation Feild (For when their are brainwashed and stuff. Lego3400: The Sage of Time 03:15, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
I'd rather not add any more fields, but yeah, this seems okay. My only remaining question is whether they're technically "brainwashed" in Stars; I think that's more of a word for psychological conditioning, which isn't at all what happens. I'm not sure what a better term would be, though. --Masamage 03:43, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Well we could write (When under Galaxia's Control) but that takes up too much space. Brainwashed is a fine term for our needsLego3400: The Sage of Time 16:32, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Except that it means psychological conditioning, which isn't at all what happens. --Masamage 17:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Meh, Its fine.. Just put thatLego3400: The Sage of Time 03:39, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm thinking maybe something like "temp" would do the trick. --Masamage 03:44, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Stats

I'm not in WP:SM, but: Is there any reason every character page has statistics sections? Wikipedia explicitly says in it's dealing with fictional subjects guide that those shouldn't be on here. Unless there's some reason they should really be deleted. Torca 06:47, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

That's being discussed a few sections up (in Lists vs. FA); the current question is about converting those to prose. I'm about to do it, so if you approve, mentioning it there would be great. X) --Masamage 22:11, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Stub Templetes up for Deletion

Our List and Section Stubs have been put up for deleation. Head over here and cast your votes *Crosses fingers that it will be keep* Lego3400: The Sage of Time 16:32, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Which stubs? Or do you mean "stub message templates"? --  Denelson83  04:59, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
The latter. --Masamage 05:04, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Youmas, Cardians, Droids, etc.

Shouldn't there be a page or pages dedicated to the different monsters/sets of monsters created by Dark Kingdom/Ali & An/Etc.? I created a page for a list of the youmas, and was going to make one of the cardians etc, but it was reverted (see here). HaidaSan 10:32, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm concerned about the notability of the individual Monsters of the Day. It doesn't seem like one learns very much just by seeing a list of their names, and so it doesn't seem encyclopedia-appropriate. You have the right idea, though—we do need more information one what youma are and how they work. Currently the Shadow Galactica page has a section describing phage; it would be really nice if Dark Kingdom had something similar. It could even go into the details of what kinds of youma there are, how they're sent out, anime uses versus PGSM uses, that sort of thing. And we can add a link out to The Oracle's [youma section], where she has a separate page and an image of every single one. She gives way more detail than we could ever justify here, and it seems like a shame to reproduce that when we could just link to it. :) --Masamage 19:25, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Oh. My original intentions were to make a page for each of the individual monsters with pics of both their forms in each article, with info on their appearance, attacks, summonings, possessions, defeats, etc. I suppose they'd still be rendered stubs though... I already typed out a page for Morga and Balm, with pics, but I didn't post them. But yes, I suppose it would be easier to just post links to The Oracle's page... HaidaSan 00:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Yeah. That would be a lot of fun, but they'd get deleted really fast per WP:N, which was my major concern. --Masamage 01:59, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
You might want to give WikiMoon a shot. Danny Lilithborne 02:00, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Good point! --Masamage 02:01, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Idea, A page for Info on All Yourma, A page for All Cardians, One for Droids... You get where i'm going with this right?? Lego3400: The Sage of Time 23:42, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Ultimately, I believe that is trivial information unsuitable for Wikipedia. JuJube 23:53, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Very much agreed. --Masamage 02:19, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

"Sailor Moon characters" article

This article was created a few weeks ago. The only characters on it are the Black Moon Clan, and all the info that isn't already at that article seems to be invented. I gave the author a warning some time ago that the article would probably go away; he hasn't edited since then, so I'm going to change it into a redirect to List of minor Sailor Moon characters and put the {{orfud}} stamp on the images. Just a heads-up. --Masamage 20:26, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy Barry Sailor Moon

Apperently, theirs a Flower named after Sailor Moon http://www.soul-hunter.com/sailormoon/myth/happybarrysailormoon.php —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lego3400 (talk • contribs).

She drew them into a bunch of pictures, too. (They're pretty!) --Masamage 17:21, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Introduceing... Sailor Wikipe-tan!

Image:Sailor_Wikipe-tan.png Tada, i got bored and edited Wikipe-tan's outfit into some semblance of a Senshi outfit. Should we use her (along with our flag) as our mascot???Lego3400: The Sage of Time

Funny! I really did like it! I guess she would be okay as our mascot (maybe you should've painted her hair blonde:)). Nice work! --Tohru Honda13Talk•Sign here 23:53, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Haha, nice. I thought about doing something similar, but didn't have the guts. :P I don't want to appropriate her for our mascot, though; the flag is really nice, and things look really crisp the way they are. Cute, though. --Masamage 03:58, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Note of intrest! In episde 193, the senshi wear outfits almost idencial to the one worn in this image before i edited it. Lego3400: The Sage of Time 06:01, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, maid dresses are a pretty common motif in girl anime. I'm guessing that's how they designed Wikipe-tan's outfit. --Masamage 06:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Outer Senshi and Inner Senshi

Since Inner Senshi and Outer Senshi are fan terms should we start puting " around them ("Inner Senshi") —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lego3400 (talk • contribs) 23:39, 20 January 2007 (UTC).

I don't think so. Just linking to the place where we define what they mean, and state explicitly that they're noncanonical, is probably enough. (Ordinarily I dislike ever using fan terms, but it's often pretty critical to make a distinction between those two groups, and "Outer Senshi" is shorter than "Senshi of the Outer Solar System." Besides which Takeuchi excludes Saturn from the latter, which is way confusing.) --Masamage 02:21, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Actors by series

I don't know who all watches Category:Sailor Moon actors, but if you do, do not be unduly alarmed. It has been nominated for deletion, but hasn't been specifically targeted. The discussion is over the existence of Category:Actors by series and all its contents. So if you have an opinion about that, weigh in at this CFD, but base it on the arguments there (like how some actors would end up in like 70 categories), not on the fact that we're affected.

Since it looks like the decision will very likely go in favor of deletion, I'm going to preemptively "listify" that category while I still have in in front of me as an easy reference. It'll live in our Project space for now; when or if the category goes away, we can toss our list out into mainspace.

On the exciting side, now we can find sources for these. Yayyy wooo. --Masamage 01:06, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I've started it over here. Very rough. It'll take a lot of work.
Here's my major question: are we including international performers? If so, all of them, or just the ones with WP articles? --Masamage 01:19, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Okay, it's looking done enough to move out into mainspace, and it's got way more information than the category does. Look okay to everyone? I'll be happy to move it at out soon as someone seconds the motion. --Masamage 03:04, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Wow, I love it. You put a lot of time into this! Wonderful job. I second the motion! :) -- RattleMan 20:17, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Malkinann and JuJube helped a lot. *^_____^* Okay, I'll make the thing happen. Thanks! --Masamage 22:48, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Villains category

Here's another CFD that affects us: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 January 27#Category:Manga and anime villains. Basically, it would upmerge all of our villains into the main character category. I am not troubled by this at all, and if fact discovered it while noticing that our 'characters' category had ended up looking pretty sparse. But now y'all know it's happening, and can vote. ^^ --Masamage 22:57, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I personally don't really mind, either. Some of the arguments for deletion are a bit silly, though, I think... e.g. POV? -Malkinann 06:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Well... NPOV applies for characters like, say, the Amazoness Quartet. They're sort of villains, and they try to kill people, but they're also secretly heroines who want to be on the side of good. So for someone to say "The villainy is more important, and they need to go in this category" is in fact an opinion, and so non-neutral. (I am totally guilty. Sigh~) --Masamage 06:26, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Opening a Peer Review for Ami

I begin to think that as the Ami Mizuno article isn't really being changed all that much of late, that we should open a Peer Review on it, to gain the opinion of the masses. After it has wrapped up, then we can incorporate any good suggestions and move towards GA. Yay or Nay? -Malkinann 06:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

I love that idea. The profile section really badly needs rewriting, though... We could do that after/as part of the review, but it may be a good idea to do it before... --Masamage 06:28, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Rewriting it was on the backburner before, yes? Maybe a peer review would give us fresh ideas on how to rewrite the profile. I'm a bit leary of a 'do this after this' approach, especially when things seem to be in a lull.-Malkinann 10:09, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
I agree, though I'd like a shot at it. To avoid drawing this out, I'll take my shot within the next day or two. By the weekend, let's put it up for Peer Review regardless of whether I've done anything. Does that sound okay? --Masamage 18:23, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Sounds fine.  :) Mind you, for me the weekend is tomorrow. ;) -Malkinann 20:06, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Okay, things are at least better organized now. Go for it! --Masamage 20:08, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Variations sections

Some time back, the idea came up of merging the "Variations" sections of the Senshi bios into the "Profile." I think this would encourage brilliant prose that clearly delineates between versions of the series; the system used on other pages is really good, where we explain what's universal first, then go into manga details, then anime details, then other-series details. Also, it would be easier to source than the current mess of OR.

I'm just re-mentioning this concept because, although no one disagreed with it the first time, it was kind of buried in other stuff. And I'd like to experiment on Ami's article in the next day or two. ^_^ So if you have a concern, pipe up. --Masamage 18:21, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

More profile reorg stuff

Now that I know more about how lead sections work on Wikipedia, I think it's important that our leads mention each character's Senshi identity, especially since that's the picture being shown in the infobox. They actually used to, but I removed it a long time ago, and I'm starting to see that there's a better way to go about things.

I also think that the sections that currently exist with the names "Sailor (Whatever)" ought to be merged with the "Other forms" section, which will allow the profile to come first, and make the stuff about other Senshi forms in there flow better. Once all those forms are there, the "Other" won't make as much sense, so I suggest giving the section the title "Aspects and forms". The addition of 'aspect' helps deal with the fact that a Senshi's different uniforms are just clothes symbolic of greater power, not actually separate physical forms.

That's my story. I'm on a roll, and think this will work really well, so if no one objects I'd love to do this ASAP. --Masamage 20:28, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

For now I have done it (and some other smaller tweaks) to Ami Mizuno's article, because hers is the template article and has just been put up for peer-review. Please edit and discuss. :) --Masamage 21:13, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
I've listed the peer review at the anime and manga wikiproject, as well as the main peer review place... is there anywhere else it should be listed? - Malkinann 22:23, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
I've never done this before, but that sounds perfect to me. --Masamage 22:31, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Group attack Storage

  • Moonlight Attractive Attack — A PGSM-only group attack, requiring the Moon Stick and the Sailor Star Tambos. Their powers merge, visually represented by a four-colored bow (Three if one of the senshi are missing), and launch at the enemy.
  • Sailor Planet Attack — The Senshi's most powerful attack. They shout the power phrases from their transformations (such as "Mercury Crystal Power") to build up energy, which is then directed at the enemy they choose. Only works at half power if Sailor Moon is absent.
  • Sailor Planet Power — Variant of Sailor Planet Attack, in which the target of the energy can't be chosen and the energy goes upwards, in the same fashion as Chibiusa's moonbeams.
  • Galactica Planet Attack — An evil version of Sailor Planet Attack. This attack is used only in the manga, in Act 50, Volume 18, when Sailor Galaxia takes control of the Senshi.
  • Sailor Teleport — Each Senshi shouts the power phrase from her transformation to build energy, and the whole group teleports.
  • Galactica Gale — A group attack by the Inner Senshi when controlled by Galaxia.
  • Dead World Submerge — A combo attack by Pluto, Uranus and Neptune. It is made by combineing the energy blass from their attacks, (Dead Scream, World Shakeing and Deep Submerge) into one large blast. It is shown in the anime but only named in video games.
  • Garlic Attack! — Used in the SuperS specails by the Inner Senshi to destory a vampire. A varation of Chibiusa's attack of the same name.

Where do they Use planet power... Sounds like a Dub name to me...--Lego3400: The Sage of Time 18:37, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Seventy-second anime episode. --  Denelson83  20:08, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

We need a better description of Sailor Planet Power, for the benefit of those who don't know what Chibiusa's moonbeams look like. --Masamage 01:16, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Dead World Submerge does show up, its one of the ones dealing with hotaru (i think the in the planetarium). Its essentlay the same attack as the Link Tech from AS so i used that name. Lego3400: The Sage of Time 19:57, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Anime art Changes

Starting in Super S it seems that all the charcters have rounder faces. Also Starting in Stars The cresent on Moon's head (both eternal and Sereinty) is thicker and taller than it had been. Should we bring these changes up someplace? --Lego3400: The Sage of Time 22:19, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

There is definitely development in the art style depending on who's directing. Someone much smarter than me could make an interesting section of that at Sailor Moon (anime). --Masamage 22:39, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Episode articles?

I've just added the episode articles to the Watchlist, and I'm wondering what happened to most of them? Most of the duplicates have gone... Also, is our template finalised?-Malkinann 07:28, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Yesterday I discovered that virtually none of the English episode articles had any info not in the Japanese articles--just different names--so I copied over any scrap of information, plus the images and English titles, and changed the English episodes into redirects. (Except for the ones that don't have original-version equivalents.)
As to the template, nothing is ever finalized. :) --Masamage 18:54, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
I could have told you that ages ago... Can I suggest that as the template episode hasn't significantly changed in a long while, it's been reviewed by a member of WP:List of TV episodes and they've found nothing lacking, that we call it near-enough-is-good-enough, and begin to work on cleaning up all of the episodes that we've got? C'mon, let's end the embargo.-Malkinann 21:40, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
I think you're right and that we're way past more than ready to go ahead. Everyone have at it, sez I!
My only request is that we not make any more episode articles for the time being. But that shouldn't be much of a big deal. :) --Masamage 21:53, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

no one would do that *looks nurvous* ♥sailor cuteness-ready for love♥ 21:55, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

XD --Masamage 21:57, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Nope... ;) I've updated our episode mandate. Geez I'm with the big words this morning.-Malkinann 22:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay, Category:Sailor Moon English episodes has been emptied, so we can safely put it up for deletion. Acting on the assumption that this is noncontroversial, I'll do that now. --Masamage 04:32, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Wait, strike that--the easiest way to do this is just let it sit where it is. After being empty for four days it qualifies for speedy deletion. --Masamage 04:36, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Done. --Masamage 20:49, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

featured

i add the sailor moon(main) article to the recrest the todays featured list hopefuly it will get featured :} ♥sailor cuteness-ready for love♥ 23:23, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

That list is for things that have already been promoted to 'featured' status and now need a day to run on the main page. --Masamage 23:40, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

oooh opps ♥sailor cuteness-ready for love♥ 23:42, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Attacks project page?

I found this page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Sailor Moon/Attacks - what is it, and what were we gunna do with it? -Malkinann 03:09, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

That was me experimenting with combining each Senshi's attacks into single sections, regardless of series. (They're not supposed to all be in the same article, hopefully-obviously.) They're arranged in chronological order. As you can see with Ami's section, taking out the series-headers actually shortens things quite a bit. This would also allow for additional sections for non-attack powers and natural (non-Senshi) powers.
I wasn't planning on proposing it for the time being, but since you caught me, what does everyone think of it? :) --Masamage 03:20, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
I like it its easyer to read then the power sections we have now--♥sailor cuteness-ready for love♥ 18:28, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm not so sure - someone on the peer review has just said the powers listings are both too crufty and too listy. :( -Malkinann 21:35, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
That startled me too; I'm still processing it. I think perhaps we should ask the people of WP:Anime. If we find out that having a list of special moves would keep us from attaining FA status, then we really do have to excise it. :/ Which be disappointing. Although on the plus side, it would simplify things for us somewhat, in that we wouldn't need to fuss over how to best arrange/phrase these lists.
So, okay. Addressing this possibility. I guess we could just link out to the Oracle or some other place that lists them, couldn't we? And we could keep a "Special powers" section, but one that consisted of prose and discussed the important developments in Ami's powers, like acquiring the Mercury Crystal and the Harp, and the trends in how/why she uses her powers. --Masamage 22:25, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I've used this test page to completely rewrite Ami's "Senshi powers" section in the form of prose. It goes into less excruciating detail, which takes care of the "crufty" problem while still mentioning everything it used to, either in the abstract or in a footnote. It also includes all of her items, taking care of the current lack of information on that without making an entire new list section. And it's got citations like crazy. What do you think? Does this work? --Masamage 02:12, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Whoa! That's actually very impressive... Raystorm 18:25, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
I like it its easy to read and not cruffty--♥sailor cuteness-ready for love♥ 21:52, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Neat! Thank you. SeizureDog said it solved the problem, which is good, because I would hate to have us not talk about the attacks at all. Should we go ahead and plug the new section into the article? Anyone have a concern about that? --Masamage 22:34, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Maybe it should be pasted to become part of the Sailor Mercury section? -Malkinann 10:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I think that might be confusing, since it would make the other Aspects sections look so extremely short. But it will be easier to tell when the Aspects section has developed further. Initially, it'd probably be just fine as a separate section, at least until we figure something else out. --Masamage 18:21, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

would it be easer to have a sailor attack page and each senshi links to there section on the page or would that be to fiddly? ♥sailor cuteness-ready for love♥ 18:31, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

No, especially not if it's going to be in prose. I think the attacks are only non-crufty if we make them relevant to the characters; a page about attacks only would almost certainly get deleted. --Masamage 18:39, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

The problem is you left out some attacks! also its hard to add more attacks. thirdly this is hard to give to Usagi and Minako. I personally favor the List much more as it is easier to edit. Maybe we could compromise. A list AND prose. Also. For Uranus and Neptune this section would be stub length. One of the optians the tag gave us was a decent lead in paragaph. Use this as a lead in and follow it with a sub section enitled "Full list of Powers" and then do the style thats proposed on the page using Usagi.M
I put up a semi complete version of this on the test page. Merge the attack list i have their with the one Masmage put up above and it would be perfect Lego3400: The Sage of Time

The fact that it doesn't have every attack in it was considered a good thing at the peer review. So I don't think a list is a good idea. Besides, it has a link to the Oracle anyway. --Masamage 17:45, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
The pages are starting to feel like they were writen by a group other than us now though... Before they had our little personal touches here and there. Now its just: The guide says do it like this so lets do it that way as much as we can. A guide is a guide to follow. You don't have to match exactly.Lego3400: The Sage of Time 23:17, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Also Mercury does gain a named attack between Shine Aqua Illusion and Mercury Aqua Rapsody. In the manga Mercury Aqua Mirage is her primary attack during the Infinity arc and resembles "Shine Aqua Illusion" in appearance. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lego3400 (talk • contribs).

And this is a problem because? I'd say it's a good thing if this is happening; the pages are closer to the objectivity required of an encyclopedia. JuJube 00:58, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Reread WP:OWN. These articles do not belong to us, and do not need to look like they were written by any particular group. Until you learn how to internalize that, Wikipedia has to pretty much be treated as a big robot without a soul. There is a level at which personal contribution should be recognized, but you can't ever forget the text at the bottom of the edit page: If you don't want your work mercilessly edited by others, do not submit it. Personally, I'm extremely proud of the work we've been getting done lately, and I recognize it as our work even if the world never knows that. If you want "little personal touches here and there," you'll have to start your own Sailor Moon website, because these articles will never reach encyclopedia quality if we don't take advice. --Masamage 02:06, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I'd actually really love it if we could get all of the Sailor Team's articles to a good article quality. Have a 'matched set', so to speak. Getting Ami there is the first step. Anything that isn't mentioned on Wikipedia could probably go on Wikimoon.-Malkinann 02:14, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Just a maintenance note—since this subpage has done its job, I'm going to move the edit history into my own userspace and then redirect the address back to Project home. --Masamage 03:18, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Sailor Moon seiyuu

  • Some time ago, I removed one-time appearances in Sailor Moon from some seiyuu articles, stating in the edit summaries "It says notable voice roles". Well, considering the new project to list all the voice actors, and seeing some of the other anime which have complete data, I think they should be put back, but I'm too busy with other stuff to do it. Anyone want to take a look at the seiyuu articles? JuJube 03:38, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Moonlight Densetsu sample

I downloaded Audacity and was able to make us a 17-second recording from Moonlight Densetsu. It's positioned just right to contain the last bit of the intro, plus the whole first verse, and it's at the lowest possible quality-level. What do you think? --Masamage 00:07, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

While we're at it, here's 10% of the English theme. --Masamage 00:29, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Wonderful.  :) They'll do really nicely for comparison. Maybe we should use them on the main Sailor Moon page too? -Malkinann 01:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

erg the english one starting sounds like the twilight zone ♥Eternal Pink-ready for love♥ 18:01, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

SAGE Publications?

I found an article via Google Scholar which looks at sex roles in children's anime, which mentions Sailor Moon as being the most influential anime of the '90s. Can anyone get access to the full article through their unis? http://gaz.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/61/3-4/293 -Malkinann 01:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Here's another article that I thought people might like to read and use: [1]-Malkinann 02:52, 18 February 2007 (UTC) (NB. Not the Dave Barry article! Scholarly feminist critique!) -Malkinann 08:35, 20 February 2007 (UTC)


Venus' Sign is Pink!

Planetary symbol of Venus
Planetary symbol of Venus

Someone's changed the Venus Sign to pink... :( Who should we talk to to get the black one back? -Malkinann 08:35, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Looks black to me. --  Denelson83  17:01, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I think thats the pre change version ♥Eternal Pink-ready for love♥ 17:59, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

...It's black here. --Masamage 18:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

mabye its just your computer seeing pink becuse its black here (unless that was the pre pink picture) ♥Eternal Pink-ready for love♥ 18:58, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

It was a change in the Wikimedia Commons copy:

#  (del) (cur) 09:59, 20 February 2007 . . R. Koot (Talk | contribs)
  . .(Reverted to earlier revision)
# (del) (rev) 06:36, 20 February 2007 . . Towsonu2003 (Talk | contribs)
  . .(let's give it some color... I like pink)

-- RattleMan 19:07, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

If they wanted to make a pink one why not just copy it and stick it on there user page ♥Eternal Pink-ready for love♥ 19:15, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks everyone. :) I was looking at the wrong histories. -Malkinann 01:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

PGSM characters

At the moment, we have multiple different locations that talk about Sailor Luna, Princess Sailor Moon, Mio Kuroki, and Dark Sailor Mercury: each of their character bios, the PGSM page itself, and in Mercury's case, the Dark Kingdom article. I think that having multiple copies of this kind of information can get really confusing because it requires different emphasis in each area, and the context has to be reexplained from different directions each time.

So! My suggestion is that we remove the "New and altered characters" section from the PGSM article. In its stead, we put a bit more prose into the "Plot" section which will contain links to each character's page and a very brief summary of how they were altered. On the characters' pages, we will merge all of the information that had previously been on the PGSM page. That way, the PGSM article will be all about the series, the character articles will be all about the characters, the articles will supplement eachother nicely, and we won't have so much redundancy going on.

How does that sound? We can leave the Dark Kingdom stuff intact for now and work on that bit as a sort of "step two". --Masamage 06:38, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good! The PGSM-characters stuff reads kind of fannishly, though, so it needs a bunch of cleanup. -Malkinann 01:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
True; a bunch of rewriting will probably need to be done. I'm on it! --Masamage 01:57, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Kuroki Mio will probably need to be left where she is? -Malkinann 02:01, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Probably. I'll leave her alone for the moment, anyway, and we can decided more as things progress. --Masamage 02:03, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Okay, all this is done. In dicussion at Talk:Dark Kingdom I opined that the best place for Mio Kuroki was probably over at PGSM, so I've now merged her completely over. Hope that is okay.
As for the bit about Dark Sailor Mercury on the Dark Kingdom page, it's been rewritten to be about her affect on the kingdom more than her character, so it's probably okay to leave, unless someone disagrees. Meanwhile, there's finally room for the PSM image at Usagi Tsukino, and for the DSM image at Ami Mizuno. Yatta! --Masamage 21:20, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

IP vandaliser

Is there anything thing to do to get rid of this IP vandaliser who keeps changing his IP address? ♥Eternal Pink-ready for love♥ 14:54, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

We could try WP:ANI... I'll give it a shot. --Masamage 19:11, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Excellent! They're working on it. There might be a block of his IP range, or they might semiprotect all our articles; gotta be some discussion first. User:Luna Santin did semiprotect both your and my userpages, though, so we can quit worrying about that silliness. --Masamage

realy cool it was getting anoying seeing his vandalisum on my page--♥Eternal Pink-ready for love♥ 21:18, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Wow he was banned in a record time and since our pages are protected as well as sailor moon(main) and tuxedo mask and it gets reverted in seconds I think he will get bored and piss off soon (hopefuly he grow up) :}--♥Eternal Pink-ready for love♥ 22:18, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Just FYI, I've unprotected most of the pages, earlier today. I'll try to keep an eye out for any further disruption, but feel free to let me know if I'm missing anything important. Thanks. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:43, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for all your help. It made a huge difference. --Masamage 03:46, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Name meanings

Coverage of what the characters' name kanji mean has been in limbo since before I got here. It's never been clear where we should cover that. I think people have generally agreed that it should be mentioned, but that it shouldn't get too crufty.

With the work we're doing on Ami's bio and her peer review, it's become clear that our lead sections are not quite long enough. So for the time being, why don't we just go ahead and put this coverage into the lead? It really wouldn't be that much info, so cruft isn't a big problem. Here's an example:

The kanji in Ami's name translate as "water" (水 mizu?), "field" (野 no?), "Asia" (亜 a?), and "beauty" (美 mi?). It is structured as a pun, as the syllable "no" indicates a possessive, so that her name can also be understood as "Ami of Water." It is frequently mistranslated as "Friend of Water" because of the French word ami, which is included in some Japanese dictionaries. [And I have a ref.]

Does this look okay? --Masamage 21:43, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

It looks lovely, (esp with cite! :D ) but I'm unsure if it should go in the lead - we can always try it and see. I've been toying with the idea of asking WP:SF to contribute to the peer review, but I'm unsure of how receptive they would be - I think they skew to the Western canon, and Sailor Moon isn't hard science fiction. -Malkinann 01:41, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Hmmm. The end of the profile would also work, especially since we're already talking about names there. --Masamage 02:03, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Okay, I've tried that (the end-of-bio version) at Ami's article. I've also written up similar paragraphs for each of the other Senshi, but I'll hold off for now on inserting them so that this one has time to be seen and reacted to. (One exception: I will put Minako's in too, because she already has this information in her bio, but for some reason it's in the Sailor V section.) --Masamage 09:08, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I've now inserted the rest. And I have another question... --Masamage 02:38, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

So, what can we do about these names that were allegedly once included on the Kodansha website--Celeste, Mark, Maggie, Monica? Is there a source for this, or should we scrap them? --Masamage 02:38, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Source: http://www.rahul.net/arromdee/sm.faq.2 --  Denelson83  03:43, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Lightning fast! :) Thank you! --Masamage 05:32, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

do we need to list that they might have been named maggie,mark ect I dosnt look that realvent to me ♥Eternal Pink-ready for love♥ 16:55, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Actually, that's a good question. What does everyone else think? --Masamage 18:24, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Would any one mind if we got rid of them because I think its not realy that noteble to say what there dub names might have been but thats just my Pov and probly sounds dumb :} ♥Eternal Pink-Ready to fight for love and grace♥ 22:02, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I like 'em. ^^; Besides, the process of character development is usually pretty notable. (Hence the mention of Makoto having been a smoker at first, etc.) --Masamage 22:09, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I didn't know that Makoto was a smoker o.O ♥Eternal Pink-Ready to fight for love and grace♥ 22:14, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Only while Naoko was dinking around with character designs in the way pre-production stages. I think it was Malkinann that unearthed those pictures; pretty funny stuff. --Masamage 22:17, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Villain infobox

There's been a question in my mind for a while about what to do about our villain groups in terms of an infobox. Some of them have the "Fictional secret organization" box, but it's always been pretty incongruous, having several info fields we don't need and requiring that the image used must be a logo. I've been poking for a while at making one unique to our needs and have come up with {{Sailor Moon villain group}}. Depending on what is or isn't filled in, it can be used for either major groups (Dark Kingdom) or minor ones (Shitennou). It includes a groups Chaos leader and monsters-of-the-day as well as having room to mention the special things different groups use, such as the Black Crystal, Amazon Stones, etc. Most important, it focuses on the group as a group, rather than on the individual members, who are better described in their subsections.

I think it's about finished, so what do the rest of you think? Should we use it? --Masamage 22:47, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Its much better than the ones we have now--♥Eternal Pink-ready for love♥ 09:50, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Its nice, if thats the kinda thing we need... I wanted to use a box like the Starlights for the Quartet since they are actully heroines being forced to work for the bad guy... Lego3400: The Sage of Time 16:22, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
arnt the Shitennou the same because they where endmyion Senshi? ♥Eternal Pink-ready for love♥ 18:10, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
We could certainly make the inclusion of "villain" at the top of the box variable with "character" or something. --Masamage 22:15, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair use images being tagged as replaceable

A while ago you may remember that we had some problems with someone wrongly tagging our fair use images as replaceable... someone's at it again. I'm not so good with images on wikipedia, so can someone who knows stuff about stuff please deal with this? Thanks. -Malkinann 12:24, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Image:SailorLuna.PNG‎
  • Image:Haruka Tenoh Nakayama Akiko.jpg‎
  • Image:Ami live action 3.jpg‎
  • Image:TuxedoNewMask.PNG‎
  • Image:PrincessSailorMoon.jpg‎
  • Image:Tuxedo kamen PGSM.jpg‎
  • Image:Ami live action2.jpg
  • Image:Rei live action3.jpg‎
  • Image:Minako live action2.jpg
  • Image:Pgsm1.png‎
  • Image:Makoto live action.jpg‎
Yeah, the guy's full user contribs are here. The question in my mind is, do we follow the usual course of action and do all the work of filling out a "this is not actually replaceable" template, or do we just treat this as vandalism and revert it all? --Masamage 19:50, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Just revert it... The guy was probably thinking they were like cosplayers or someting... I dunno.. Hes problby just an idiot User:Lego3400|Lego3400: The Sage of Time]] 20:00, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Wow. WP:CIV and WP:AGF. --Masamage 20:01, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

I've asked WP:Anime about it. --Masamage 20:05, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Might just be better to start doing the full FU declaration rationale thingie. -Malkinann 20:38, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
For sure. I'd just like them not to get deleted, meanwhile. X) --Masamage 20:50, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

well it looks like you guys are just working on this. i already asked a admin what to do but it seems you guys have been through this before. i saw the message on the anime and manga project and i have already messaged the user telling him to not do this and gave him the reason why. Maverick423 20:51, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Myu actress images

A while make, somebody added an image of Sailor Uranus in the musicals to the Haruka Tenoh article. I think this is actually a pretty good idea, because A) it provides live-action images for the characters who weren't in PGSM, B) the Inner Senshi have civilian shots on their own articles and Senshi shots at the PGSM article, and C) A civillian shot from the musicals would be nigh-impossible to find as well as deeply boring, so this is a good way to go in general.

Seem okay? I don't anticipate this idea being real controversial, I just thought I should make what was going on in my head known. Also, let's not go crazy: the only characters who really need this are the Outer Senshi, Chibiusa, and possibly a group shot of the Starlights. It would be fun to have the Cats and Chibichibi, but there really isn't space, so I'd rather not worry about it. --Masamage 23:28, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I got all the ones I said, plus Galaxia. Yay for the internet~ --Masamage 00:50, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
No copyright/fair use troubles? Lucky :-) Raystorm 16:44, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Not so far. I fully sourced them all and provided rationales, so we should be okay. 'Course if anyone else wants to review them I'd appreciate it! --Masamage 22:14, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

First arc page

Okay, I think that before long I will be up for starting work on the other (besides Stars) Arc pages. I mention this mainly because I am thinking of starting with the first arc, so I wanted to run the name question past you all. The real name of the arc is Sailor Moon, which is out of the question as an article title for obvious reasons. Another popular term is Sailor Moon classic, but I think calling it that is sort of weird, partly because it's a fan term and partly because using the word "classic" has a slightly POV connotation.

I think a parenthetical name would be best, so that we can indicate that whatever we're calling it after the real title is just for disambiguation. Here are the possibilities I've thought of, with their pros and cons:

  • Sailor Moon (original series) - Correct, but confusing, because "original" might mean the Japanese as opposed to the dub, or it might mean the manga as opposed to the anime/tokusatsu.
  • Sailor Moon (first series) - Also correct, but still confusing because English-speaking TV uses "series" differently from Japanese TV. This leads us to...
  • Sailor Moon (first season) - ...which is technically incorrect, and which also excludes the manga (which definitely doesn't come in seasons, whatever you say about the anime).
  • Sailor Moon (first arc) - Promising, but it implies that this article is entirely about the story and plot summary, which isn't going to be true.
  • Sailor Moon (classic) - Largely meaningless, but perhaps a good alternative to the non-parenthetical version?

Any thoughts? Bizarrely, that last one seems to be the only one without any major problems, but maybe I just haven't thought of them. --Masamage 19:50, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

What about Sailor Moon (arc)? As in, it's called Sailor Moon, but it's the arc called Sailor Moon. *refuses to make dub-theme-tune-related joke* Why are our series pages going to be so ..whatever.. that calling them an arc page would be misleading?-Malkinann 21:38, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Hmm, that's a pretty good idea. And, well, the goal is to info on stuff other than the plot--release information, artistic development, sources of inspiration, that sort of stuff. But yeah, just (arc) is actually pretty good. --Masamage 22:02, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Either Sailor Moon classic or Sailor Moon Dark Kingdom arc are our best choicesLego3400: The Sage of Time 21:50, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
If we go with Dark Kingdom ark would we have to change Stars to Shadow Galatic ark? ♥Eternal Pink-ready for love♥ 12:01, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Yes, which is why that wouldn't work. --Masamage 19:11, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Arc, with a c. --  Denelson83  01:42, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
(Consistent, with an e!) X) --Masamage 01:56, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I say avert the whole headache, make a Plotline of Sailor Moon page and put it all in there. JuJube 12:14, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

mabye we could call it Sailor Moon plot arks? ♥Eternal Pink-ready for love♥ 12:19, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
There should be a standard here or something. All I know is Naruto has Plot of Naruto and Plot of Naruto: Shippuden articles. JuJube 12:23, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
what about Sailor Moon story line? ♥Eternal Pink-ready for love♥ 14:49, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
There is a standard about articles that consist only of plot information being a bad idea. This way every series has room to expand and be discussed on its own, out-of-universe. It'll be fun, too. ^^ --Masamage 19:11, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I think we should use Classic so we could then use R S Supers ect and If we exsplane why its called classic in the article and try to make it sound npov it might work ♥Eternal Pink-ready for love♥ 21:46, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

My favorite idea so far is Malkinann's Sailor Moon (arc). I like it because it says exactly what the thing is without giving it our own made-up name (sort of like how we chose not to call the cats article "Guardian cats" or anything). --Masamage 01:37, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
That works for me too. Then have Sailor Moon R (arc), etc... Raystorm 16:42, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
We don't need to have "Sailor Moon R (arc)", because it already has its own unique name, which is Sailor Moon R. The main problem with the first arc page is that it shares its name with the series as a whole. There's no reason why Sailor Moon Classic and Sailor Moon Dark Kingdom arc shouldn't be redirects to Sailor Moon (arc) - it's just that they're fan names and a bit inconsistent. -Malkinann 21:14, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Exactly so. --Masamage 22:13, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

couldnt we have Sailor Moon and have a Disambiguation page? ♥Eternal Pink-ready for love♥ 21:24, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Probably no need; there aren't quite enough articles with similar names. Everything will be linked off the main Sailor Moon article anyway. --Masamage 22:13, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Villan template article

Wouldn't it be better, to use the Dark Kingdom page as the template.. It has surpassed the Shadow Galactica page in terms of quality. --Lego3400: The Sage of Time 23:05, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Ordinarily I would just say that that's the article rising up to match the template, but I think you're right. The Shadow Galactica page is doing a couple of outdated things that we've found much better ways of handling at Dark Kingom. It could stand another good copy-edit, but in terms of format I think you're right that it's superior. --Masamage 01:41, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Individual anime episodes

Please take note of this discussion, as it might affect what we're doing here. --Masamage 18:03, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Lead Charcter Images

Someone Reduced the Image size for the Lead image, makeing it look AWFUL ITs all blurry.. They were well intentioned, in shrinking it for fair use, but they made it too small and it looks all blury and its hard to make out key deatails. Could someone revert it?Lego3400: The Sage of Time 15:43, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Your right it hurts my eyes to look at it :P ♥Eternal Pink-ready for love and grace♥ 18:10, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

You just need to refresh your browser cache. --Masamage 06:17, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I reverted it... It was blurry becuse it was streched so much. Masmage, could you reduce them to the same size you set for Chibiusa's?--Lego3400: The Sage of Time 15:21, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

What image exactly are we talking about? --Masamage 17:03, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
All the inner senshi sans Mercury —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lego3400 (talk • contribs)
The Sailor Moon (Usagi) main one looks blury to me ♥Eternal Pink-ready for love and grace♥ 17:09, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Oh, I see! Somebody made it incredibly tiny. Yeah, when I get home I'll do a real size reduction. (I might need to take the Chibiusa shot down a little too, actually, but not by much.) --Masamage 17:18, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
When you revert images, don't reupload the previous version (I can tell because you misspelled "reverting"), just hit the "rev" link next to the revision you want to restore. -- RattleMan 17:16, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Oh... Didn't know that <_<... I'll do that next time...Lego3400: The Sage of Time 13:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Fixed 'em. They're all at 250 px wide now. We're using them at 220 px wide, so we may be asked to reduce them further in the future, but they're nowhere near as obnoxiously huge as they were. --Masamage 02:49, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject restructure change

Wikipedia:WikiProject reform - it looks like, under this, we may become a 'task force' of WP:ANIME. At present, it's only a proposal, mind you... -Malkinann 20:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Rar, I had heard about that. I kinda hope it doesn't go through just because it would be a pain in the neck to reorganize everything, but to be honest, that's the only disadvantage I can think of. Guess we'll have to wait and see. --Masamage 20:52, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
'Task force'? Would that make us a 戦隊? -_^ --  Denelson83  09:15, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
If we do I get to be the Pink one ♥Eternal Pink-Ready to fight for love and grace♥ 09:43, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
LOL. --Masamage 18:23, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Uggh, i hate task forces! Lego3400: The Sage of Time`
...On principle, or what? --Masamage 22:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
You mean wiki task force or Sentai task force? ♥Eternal Pink-Ready to fight for love and grace♥ 22:44, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Wiki ones, and on principle... I understand where sometimes its needed.. But i'm not a big fan of them... Expecially with us... Ours is a big thing (a Live action series, Many musicals, 5 anime seires, a manga, video games, 3 movies) It just not practial for ours to become a task force. We've done quite well the way we are... Lego3400: The Sage of Time 15:50, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

would it help us to become a task force or would it be more alkwed for us? ♥Eternal Pink-Ready to fight for love and grace♥ 16:00, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Name changes

Since most of the names in SM are based on minerals, figuring out Englishy approximations is usually pretty easy. There are some on here that we're spelling a bit funny, though. Here are the ones I can think of:

  • Queen Metallia - Discussion at Talk:Dark Kingdom suggests (with proof) that the intended English spelling is Metaria. However, a Google search suggests that the name we're using is some 100 times more common than the "official" spelling used in the new manga. However-ever, if there's a controversy then using the direct romanization seems safest, which happens to be Metaria.
  • Saphir and Demande - These both seem kind of shifty. They don't resemble real names (which Rubeus and Esmeraude do) or their Japanese equivalents (which would be Sefiiru and Demando). What's our source on these?
  • Queen Nehellenia - No one knows where this name came from. She might be named after nepheline, but then she'd be Nephelenia. Or she might be named after Nehalennia, but then why isn't that her name? The English adaptation calls her Nehelenia. With all this wackiness and no proof of any thing, shouldn't we just be calling her Neherenia--which is the straight romanization--and not pretending we know anything we don't?
  • Sailor Aluminum Siren - Her name kana say seiren, not sairen. Since the later is how the word 'Siren' is spelled in Japanese, should we match the romanization and just call her Seiren?

What should we do with these? --Masamage 04:19, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Since nobody has discussed this, I'll toss in my hat.
  • Metallia: This has been pretty much settled because of its repeated use in the manga reprints.
  • Nehellenia: The mineral "Nepheline" doesn't match the spelling or pronunciation, so it's safe to say variations of that are easy to rule out. "Nehellenia" would be the closest because it represents the katakana and the reference to the goddess and Nehellenia is shown with a flying ship as the goddess is associated with. The source material Takeuchi relied on spelled her name "Nehellenia" or "Neherenia" in Japanese, which explains the discrepancy. The original source Takeuchi relied on also mistakenly referred to her as associated with the goddess "Hel", of the moon of the dead. And much as I hate to rely on fandom, that spelling hasn't been too greatly disputed though a lot of people never knew why it was used.
  • Saphir and Demande: Reference to their gemstones in French and German respectively, though why is there a silent e at the end of "Demand"? In any case, the Black Moon sometimes uses alternate languages to references their gem or mineral names, such as "Esmeraude" (French), Kooan (Japanese), and Rubeus (Latin).
  • Siren/Seiren: I personally tend to use Seiren because not only is that a Greek word, she pronounces her name "Seiren." Since the name and the word synch, "Seiren" is more convincing. I didn't dispute it before because I thought this had already been decided, but since it's up for debate... Rebochan 19:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
That all sounds okay, but why do we know what source Takeuchi used for coming up with Nehellenia? --Masamage 19:41, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Episode treatment

According to WT:Anime, individual episode summaries are beginning to be phased out as non-notable. Our Sailor Moon summaries are kind of on the borderline because we list the changes made for the English dub, which usually are notable. On the other hand, we also get those from a secondary source, SM Uncensored, which could just as easily be linked to.

MSJapan has given me an interesting idea. If we wanted, we could split the current list of episodes into five lists, one per arc, and flesh them out--screenshots, short summaries, the whole works. For each episode, we could link out to the the full-length summaries over at WikiMoon (which tend to be pretty good), plus the SMU review, and just axe our own summaries altogether. We would be covering exactly the same amount of ground we are right now, but with way less redundant effort, and much higher quality (because, other that the first few of our articles (which are excellent), the majority are awful).

These would exist in tandem with the arc summary pages, which cover the general plot for both anime and manga, plus artistic development, influences, interpretation, reception, and so on. The new articles would be List of Sailor Moon R episodes and so forth. Manga act info can also probably stay in the arc pages for now, mainly because they tend to be 12 episodes long, as opposed to the 40 or so anime episodes.

So that is the idea. Reactions? --Masamage 21:17, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Here is what that looks like with the first few episodes of the first series. --Masamage 18:40, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

cool captions ^..^ and it looks good and this way we don't need to mke a article for each episode ♥Eternal Pink-Ready to fight for love and grace♥ 18:42, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Eheheheh. Yeah, obviously the captions will need to be a little more sophisticated. ^_^;;> --Masamage 18:47, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Finished out the entire first series, there. Have a look. --Masamage 20:21, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

We could just make the episode lists a part of the arc summaries? -Malkinann 21:03, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

That was my initial thought, too, but the lists are pretty enormous on their own. I personally have a slight aversion to making a lot of new articles, but then I remember that we'll be eliminating some 50 others in the process. So that's not so bad. Another possibility is to leave them combined, even though it would make the list much larger, a la List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes. --Masamage 21:25, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I love the new captions ^..^ ♥Eternal Pink-Ready to fight for love and grace♥ 21:30, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

All right, sorry for my ignorance, but I've gotten completely mixed up on how the discussion is turning out; I only go the part where you're making a super-list of all the episodes (by season, right?), and I have to say it's a better idea. It would be a load of less work for me; I only helped copyedit up to episode 3. Imaagine all the other ones... Oy. :P Overall, good idea. Peace, ♣Tohru Honda13♣ 03:31, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
That's the idea, yes. And yay, it's a good sign when even the people who have put a lot of work into something don't mind it going away. --Masamage 18:36, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Oh, I'm okay with fixing only 2 and 3. I would've ripped the hair out of my head if I copyedited like 50 of them, then to have them made into lists. :Q Just glad I could do something for the project. Peace, ♣Tohru Honda13♣ 22:55, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
No! Don't rip the odango out! :p --  Denelson83  23:32, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Moving forward

Okay, the reaction to this idea has been sufficiently positive that I think we can make the proposal official and set a time limit on it. I suggest that if no one offers a counter-argument by Tuesday, March 27, we start to work on it.

Meanwhile, here's a list of things that will need to be done, in approximate order:

  1. Write up real captions for each first-season ep at the test page
  2. De-link all episode articles from the list
  3. Redirect all episode articles to the list (don't delete; this will preserve their edit histories just in case)
  4. Deal with all double-redirects for every episode article (this will be a pain in the rear)
  5. Copy the first-season list, with screenshots and summaries, over top of that section in the full list
  6. Test page converted to a second-season list, write captions for each episode
  7. Find screenshots for each second-season episode, preferably from The Oracle for ease of sourcing and so that the quality of the various screenshots match eachother.
  8. Repeat steps 5-7 for each series, with another source for the last two series' screenshots, since the Oracle only covers through S
  9. Replace the lower-quality first series screenshots with ones from the Oracle
  10. When it's all done, consider splitting into separate articles

How does that all sound? More importantly, who can help me write the summaries? --Masamage 19:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, looks like nobody hates the idea, so let's go ahead with it.
I've been working on mini-summaries for each episode over at the test page. That will have to be done before we can do much else, but meanwhile, does anyone have any good idea for what we should do with each episode article's talk page? I'm thinking maybe we could just make them archive-subpages under the episode list itself? --Masamage 18:41, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Done! I'm now going to replace the entire first-series episode list, which will delink all the episode articles. The next step will be to replace every existing episode article with a redirect, copy each episode talk page to one subarchive at the list, and turn all double-redirects to the list as well. All help with these tasks would be greatly appreciated. --Masamage 20:23, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm having a bit of a problem with the images. I just got done uploading a bunch of images for Zatch Bell, realizing they don't fit the Fair Use criteria, and having them deleted. Why would Sailor Moon be an exception? :( JuJube 20:36, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't know about what's going on with Zatch Bell, but List of Fullmetal Alchemist episodes, List of Planetes episodes, and List of RahXephon media are all featured articles. --Masamage 20:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
I see. If you'll check, each one of the images on those lists has a Fair Use rationale in the Image article. This needs to be done for each picture in the Sailor Moon episodes list. JuJube 20:43, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Very good point. It's done for all the images I've uploaded, which also match the "Sailor Moon episode ***.jpg" format, but not for the older ones that have dub-related names. Those also tend to be a lot lower quality, so I've been slowly replacing them with ones that also have real sources (generally The Oracle) and fair-use rationales. I'm only about a quarter of the way through, though. (Also, the FU rationales I have done now need to be changed to justify use in the episode list rather than in individual articles...bother.) --Masamage 20:50, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, progress was hindered when my internet crashed this afternoon, but so far I've got episodes 1-11 redirected to the episode list, and all their redirects dealt with. I've also merged every single active episode talk page (which was very few of them) to Talk:List of Sailor Moon episodes/Episode archive, so we never have to worry about talk pages again. But if anyone feels like doing a few redirect/double-redirect sweeps, that would be awesome. --Masamage 03:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Unexpectedly, I had a whole bunch of time that lended itself well to doing busywork with half my attention while using the other half on other things. Every episode and redirect has been re-aimed to the list of episodes.
Image work still needs to be done, especially with aiming the FU rationales to the list rather than to separate articles. After that there's the work of changing the other series to this same format, but I sure won't be into anything like that for a while. o__O I'll reset the test page, though, for the R series.
Speaking of which, here is the only image that was orphaned in this process. It's nothing special and has no real source (not to mention a terrible file name), so I'm going to slap a deletion template on it.
Wheewwwwwpwpphh. --Masamage 07:03, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Gosh darn it

All our PGSM character images (Usagi, Mamoru, Ami, Rei, Makoto, Minako, Sailor Luna) got deleted from under our noses. --Masamage 04:01, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Wait, no. Ami's is still there. But the one at the top of List of Sailor Moon actors is gone, which is idiotic. How did this happen? Can we just reupload? Would we get in trouble? Do we need to hit up deletion review? --Masamage 04:04, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
User:Anetode deleted the images, and a lot of other ones, citing invalid fair use. You might want to leave a message on his talk page. I don't think it's very polite to delete images without notifying anybody. JuJube 04:06, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
That seems like a good plan. Embarrassingly, I am having a giant shyness attack. >_> Would you be willing to do that? --Masamage 04:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Done. JuJube 04:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
I got a reply. Looks pretty clear-cut to me. :( JuJube 05:05, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
I have disagreed with this assessment, as all similar images on the Internet to those that were deleted are most likely to be under just as restrictive copyrights. --  Denelson83  05:07, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't know how that blanking happened... May be related to a Firefox bug? Anyway, the IP address of the anon who disputed the fair use claims on these images in the first place resolves to Kuala Lumpur. Perhaps this is the same person who vandalised SM-related articles in the past, replacing them with the content from articles on Hong Kong movie stars. --  Denelson83  05:18, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Regardless, Anetode is right that we were using those images as decoration, not illustration. Until that problem is solved we can't justify putting them back. So...moving them isn't much of an option, as there's no other place. Maybe we can include, in the actresses section where the images had been located, information about the appearance chosen for each character in the live-action series. Black hair, height, glasses/ponytail, that sort of thing? --Masamage 05:23, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Okay, then that closes that issue.
Gee, this copyright system is really flawed! ._.  Denelson83  05:27, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I am the admin responsible for deleting these images. First I'd like to note that these have been tagged for almost a month, and if there was any disagreement with the deletion, a discussion should have taken place beforehand. Masamage did, quite diligently, contest each deletion by claiming that these images were not replaceable. Such an assertion, however, does not guarantee these images a free pass. I found that the photographs of SM characters were also used to illustrate the articles on their respective actresses, in clear contradiction of WP:FUC#1. Further, these photographs, in the context of character articles, had virtually no critical commentary or justification of their use (just saying "This actress played this character" is insufficient). In all instances, there were already several other copyrighted images being used in the article, which went against the well-established practice of limiting the number of fair use claims so as to minimize the appropriation of copyrighted content. In most cases, a single image in the infobox is enough to adequately (though, of course, not comprehensively) illustrate and identify a character. ˉˉanetode╦╩ 05:28, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Well, we try to be pretty careful about making sure any image included is very different from the others, and is illustrating a specific thing. The live-action images have been the only exception, and it is true that if we want to use them we should find a better way to do so. I am confident we can do that, but not if they're gone. We thought they were taken care of, even if mistakenly, and that's why no more discussion was done. With warning, we would have worked something out.
The fact that the character images were included on the actress pages is not a great reason to delete them outright. They should have just been removed from those pages. In addition, some of the images deleted were being used to illustrate specific commentary, like the "Sailor Luna" shot which was removed from Cats (Sailor Moon).
I commend your hard work and friendly approach to this; we're all just kind of bummed out by the sudden result and want a chance to make this work. --Masamage 05:38, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Looking over Cats (Sailor Moon) again, I find that you're correct, that fair use is justified (a bit of a stretch, but there's enough critical commentary there to postulate a decent claim). I'll undelete that one immediately.
The issue with using photographs of actresses is that, provided there is a free-licensed alternative, there's no dire need to supplement a copyrighted character rendering with a photograph of an actress wearing a particular costume. You can have a copyrighted image in the infobox, a photograph of the actress, and a brief summary of how the costume was adapted for a live-action series. ˉˉanetode╦╩ 05:57, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Princess Sailor Moon got removed too... Hers' was being used correctly. We should replace that one... Why her's got removed i'll never know... I mean, She was showing us what she looked like! I understand where this guys coming from with the shots of the Unheshined actress (I don't agree with it but i can see his point) but this one I can't see what would make them think it was ok to remove Lego3400: The Sage of Time 15:45, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I've told him that and he still refuses to put it back. We should ask for a review. --Masamage 18:29, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
I've told him again. If he refuses i'll just upload it again <_<. Lego3400: The Sage of Time 15:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Ahh, that was the image from Usagi Tsukino. Note that the article already includes an exuberant amount of copyrighted imagery under the fair use claim (some six images, where one would suffice), and that this image was not accompanied by any critical commentary or detailed fair use rationale. All it really illustrated was how the actress, Miyū Sawai, looked in the character costume. Sorry, but this was a fairly obvious case of egregious overuse of the limited claims afforded by WP:FU. ˉˉanetode╦╩ 02:28, 2 April 2007 (UTC) ... Ok Lets just reupload it.. Lego3400: The Sage of Time 02:45, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Also Could someone Carry this on in my place, if i do it I'll just get upset and it will end up as a revert war Lego3400: The Sage of Time 02:48, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
We can't just upload it without dealing with the concerns about it. Let's put in some kind of commentary about the costume and Takeuchi's role in designing it, so that it deserves a picture. --Masamage ♫ 03:00, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Mask or Kaman

have we made a dission about this because its been on the things to desscuse for ages and on Mamoru's page it looks like more pepole think mask is the right name to lst him as ♥Eternal Pink-Ready to fight for love and grace♥ 10:38, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

  • He already is named Tuxedo Mask in the article. JuJube 10:43, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

It still says theres a descution on wiki-moon page should that be removed? ♥Eternal Pink-Ready to fight for love and grace♥ 10:53, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

We do tend to use Mask, but we have never reached consensus about it. I believe it was Denelson who preferred the use of Kamen, but the conversation stalled. --Masamage 18:28, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
It's not an easy question - everybody in the shows says "Kamen," but I've found Japanese promotional materials and merchadise that write "Tuxedo Mask" or even "Tuxedomask". I'd say, keep it as "Mask" because the rest of the articles attempt to romanize or translate terms like this, but there's a legitimate argument for keeping it as "Kamen" as well. Rebochan 16:57, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree most subs say mask (at least the ones I watch) ♥Eternal Pink-Ready to fight for love and grace♥ 17:51, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Anime and Manga differentiation

I've noticed that a lot of the articles in the project aren't always clear about events that only take place in either the anime or the manga. Some of the articles even blend the two, which gives the impression that events that only happened in one continuity happened in both. Since the anime and manga can diverge greatly, I'd like to put it out there as something to focus on when looking for ways to improve articles that fall under this wiki project. I've tried to do my best to fix this where I can, but it's a pretty huge undertaking. Rebochan 13:30, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I totally agree like supers and stars plot line compltly differs I think ♥Eternal Pink-Ready to fight for love and grace♥ 15:29, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
We've been working on it, but yeah, there's a lot to do. --Masamage 18:09, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
It's no small task, but hopefully now it's out there. Rebochan 19:40, 29 March 2007 (UTC)