Forum - View topicTo-Do: Auto-italics in articles [Greenlinks]
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Gina Szanboti
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Something seems to have been recently tweaked on the site that's making it auto-italicize eponymous character names in articles as if they were titles. I first noticed this in the Frenemies article where Naruto's name was always italicized, and I see it again in the Couples article with Utena.
This is rather confusing since it takes me a beat to tell if the author means the character or the series, or wants to deliberately add emphasis, so it's a bit more intrusive than the auto-link for any word or phrase that also happens to be a series title (those are kind of amusing, actually). |
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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10420 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Can you point out an article where this happened ?
I don't think this is a new tweak, I think the editor of that article just didn't notice, and failed to disable the italics. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Since it's been a month, here are the links to the two I mentioned:
animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2016-06-08/anime-fiercest-frenemies/.102975 (Naruto is always italicized even if talking about the character) animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2016-06-10/your-favorite-anime-couple/.103082 (same for Utena) Here's an odd one - not only is Georgie always italiziced, but the exclamation point is added as well. animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2016-06-15/seven-manga-that-need-an-english-release-right-now/.103182 I'm pretty sure I ran across another one, but I forget what it was. Anyway, whatever was happening seems to have resolved itself, since I haven't seen it recently. But if it was merely editorial oversight, it seems strange that 3 such errors suddenly occurred within a week of each other. |
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
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This happens when the title is exactly the same to the name of the protagonist (Naruto, Utena, Doraemon, Inuyasha, Nana, Lupin, etc.) or a proper noun that being mentioned repeatedly (Gundam, Genshiken).
Greenlinks are automatic; the artificial intelligence is not smart enough yet to tell apart whether a word "Naruto" within an article refers to the character or the series. Separating them can only be done manually, one by one. |
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Tempest
I Run this place. ANN Publisher Posts: 10420 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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I'll add fixing this to our to-do list for an upcoming tweak to the greenlinks.
-t |
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Gina Szanboti
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For a more recent example, look to Nick Creamer's review of Mob Psycho 100 Episode 5. Every use of the word "one" is replaced with the author "ONE." Since none of his previous reviews do that, I can't tell if this is a new thing, or if someone diligently corrected the previous reviews and was in a hurry this time, or if Nick was making a point that went over my head. All of these seem equally likely.
I guess part of the question is at what point between the writer's computer and mine does the green-link software do its thing? |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
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I fixed this one by having the greenlinks match only "ONE", not "one". That feature is not used very often so the writers don't always remember it. |
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