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Dan42
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Uh, even so it's not sane. It's supposed to be a KANJI name, not KATAKANA. We're not going to start accepting katakana spellings for every non-Japanese name in the Encyclopedia.
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Devil Doll
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But Hiragana are still accepted?
(We had the same issue of reasonably labeling these fields in another anime database...) |
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dormcat
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That's not the point. Some Japanese have their names (real or pseudo) in full hiragana/katakana. What Dan was talking was about transliterating every non-Japanese name into katakana, which is discouraged. Like I said in the previous post, the reason I left Ledford's katakana name untouched (looks like Dan has removed it) was because this transliteration might have appeared on Japanese credit rolls, so if someone simply copy'n'paste it while adding staff credits the system could turn ジョン・レッドフォード into "John Ledford" automatically*, instead of having to guess who "Jon Reddofoodo" is. *However the current system wouldn't be able to recognize ジョン・レッドフォード correctly; it could only recognize レッドフォードジョン but that's not how his name is written in katakana. |
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Devil Doll
Posts: 656 Location: Germany |
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It's just that citing the name of the kanji field doesn't lead anywhere in this discussion (Japanese company names frequently contain Katakana and contributing is most helpful since it is automatically translated like a kanji name for a person but their name field is still labeled "Kanji name" due to the lack of a better, more self-explaining name). So whatever rule were to be defined it should explain in which situations Katakana are useful (such as in company names) and in which situations they are not (such as in... what exactly? Nationality of a person isn't part of the ANN data format so Dan42's software can't easily check a condition of this type when processing the Kanji name contribution form). The German anime database I used to contribute to in parallel to ANN does have such a nationality field that allows features like filtering persons by nationality or making the name display order depend on nationality. |
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doc-watson42
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The date display for chapter serialization (e.g., for Stringendo) does not display properly for yyyy-mm only entries—it is rendered as an English title with the leading parenthesis concealed (but not deleted). I was forced to use yyyy-mm-00, since the chapters in question were serialized in Comic Mujin, a monthly magazine.
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
Posts: 3783 Location: Montreal |
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As you noted yourself, the "Kanji name" description is simply a semantic matter due to the lack of a better name. And I'm not going to get into trivial semantic convolutions over this. dormcat correctly guessed what I meant (and admit it, you did too), because it's the obvious common sense interpretation. IMHO there's no urgent need to clarify the exact meaning of "kanji name" if common sense suffices, but if you happen to have a nice clear explanation that I can put on the kanji name submission page, then by all means post it here. |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
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That's because partial dates are currently not accepted, because the Chapter title format is based on the Episode title format, and it didn't make sense to have partial dates for episodes, although it does for chapters. I'll fix that. The disappearing parenthesis is a funny side-bug. BTW in the future please post separate issues as separate topics. It's terribly difficult to track all the issues when they're jumbled together in one big generic thread. |
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Devil Doll
Posts: 656 Location: Germany |
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Please delete the two cast credits for Yoshikazu SATO.
As http://www.linebarrels.jp/cast.html and the source comment given for the Ghost Hound credit (mentioning the kanji name) show, these credits belong to 佐藤 美一 = さとう びいち = Biichi SATOU (Wikipedia page referencing 鉄のラインバレル and 神霊狩). I added the correct credits but can't delete the wrong ones (which are the only cast entries for this staff-only person, making him look like a potential split request). |
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Devil Doll
Posts: 656 Location: Germany |
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The company Tag Heuer has been founded in 1860 (Wikipedia).
Entering "1860" or "1860-01" as foundation date for this company is rejected with the error message
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=90911#90911 |
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braves
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As noted before, Nobutaka Ito should actually be spelled "Nobutake". Source, again.
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Devil Doll
Posts: 656 Location: Germany |
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Then again, the Anime Creators Encyclopedia has "【伊東 伸高】 いとう のぶたけ POSITION:絵コンテ、演出、作画監督、作画"... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - We have some weird situation that I would like to ask about the history first before actually doing something. There's a person Aiko MIMORI (no kanji) whose only cast credit is for the Early Reins OVA, an anime where ANN has only information from "English Credits". Now the Wikipedia page for the anime says that this role is performed by 三森 愛子. When you click on the link on this name in the Wikipedia page you get auto-redirected to the page of 柳原愛子 (歌手) = やなぎはら あいこ = YANAGIHARA Aiko (singer) where you can read that her stage name is 三森愛子（みつもり あいこ） = MITSUMORI Aiko. So the Aiko MIMORI page at ANN is a misreading. What's confusing me is that ANN actually has a person named Aiko MITSUMORI but without any credits... which usually indicates that this person has been stripped of her credits. Any idea what's going on here? |
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Devil Doll
Posts: 656 Location: Germany |
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Masato HAGIWARA (萩原 聖人) is credited for 8 cast roles (with website and picture) but also for 2 animation tasks.
What appeared to be a split request turned out to be two simple assignment errors of credits that should have been gone to Masahito HAGIWARA (萩原 正人) whose given name can also be read as "Masato". Can someone please hide the two wrong animation credits for Masato (who both have livedoor wiki sources, making the wrong assignment even less understandable)? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Kazuki ISHII (石井一規) looks like a split request with 1 staff credit for Finish Animation and 1 cast for Fullmetal Panic 2nd Raid (source: "from the dvd"). But the cast credit actually belongs to 石井 一貴 = Kazutaka ISHII whose given name can also be read as "Kazuki". Can someone please hide this wrong cast credit? |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
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"Aiko Mimori as Laura" was submitted on 2006-01-23 and "Aiko Mitsumori as Lola" was removed 2 days later. No indication why, but I suspect it was due to an error report. I'm going to assume ja.wikipedia has the correct pronunciation and revert the previous "fix". |
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