Forum - View topicLetter From The Encyclopedist [2010-03-02]
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Sariachan
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^ I agree.
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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There are always unwritten priorities. I always deal with pictures first, for a wrong picture can be either very misleading or downright offending (there were people submitting live-action pornography pictures); on the other hand, sometimes it's difficult to pick the best one from two or more pictures. After that I'd handle number of episodes, premiere/release dates, etc., for those were FACTS and unlike subjective items like genre, age rating, and plot summaries. Finally, trivia are very difficult to deal with if one has never watched/read the material. For the record, I don't deal with dub casts or English translators because I don't have sufficient knowledge in that area.
Guess what? Episode titles are the least enjoyable error reports to deal with.  The number of reports are huge, yet most of them are spelling and/or translation variations. 
ADDENDUM: If there's any specific report (new title or error) that you'd like ME to read, please DO NOT use FUNimation's official website as the only source, for http://www.funimation.com is not accessible outside North America and I have to tweak my computer here and there to avoid being redirected to http://www.navarre.com/funimation/ |
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 7580 Location: Wales |
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A useful tip if you want to quickly refer to the front page of a particular FUNimation subsite you are blocked from is to use Google's cache. E.g. if I wanted to see the cast list on the Strike Witches page and it was geoblocked here (it isn't as it happens, but others are) I'd stick cache:http://www.funimation.com/strikewitches/ in my address bar (since I am using chrome it will run this as a google search automatically). |
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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I just switched to Chrome less than a week ago. Thanks for the tip! 
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
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I think this priority you speak of is a subjective thing. Currently error reports are sorted from oldest to newest, which may not be perfect but at least is an objective standard of priority. And with the filtering options you can display error reports according to your priorities. But I do agree there's a lot of error reports for episode titles so I added an option to exclude those. Some judicious URL hacking could take you further if you wanted  . BTW, if you wish to see seiyuu errors you should select the option to show only error reports for cast credits.
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P€|\||§_|\/|ast@
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Ok Dan thanks for making the little modification, that should simplify things a bit. I'll try to find time to work on errors some more.
And about priority determinations being subjective. Yes very subjective, that's why I suggested some sort of decision to give more importance to certain things. Maybe among Encyclopedia staff in a very subjective manner might help cancel out overall subjectivity. But you guys spend a lot of time on it, so concentrate on what matters to you. |
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hyoumirai
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Wow... I'll help out if I can.
I found two error reports that can be deleted. 1: animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/error-report.php?code=AI-3699992988 2: animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/error-report.php?code=AI-1478550542 Since both of the errors have been fixed, the reports are no longer necessary. |
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doc-watson42
Encyclopedia Editor
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Dan: Thank you for doing this. The ability to check which titles have already been submitted, and to make modifications to the submissions (especially my own), are things I have found to be invaluable.
A double suggestion, though: add an alternate titles field to the submission form, and make the alternates visible in the lists for easy searching (there are currently three alternate titles showing in the New Anime list, but there could be more). |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
Posts: 3782 Location: Montreal |
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When submitting titles, the instructions do state how to do this:
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doc-watson42
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 1708 |
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Whoops—I missed that.  But I'll try to remember it from now on.
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doc-watson42
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 1708 |
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From my submissions, it seems that if an "a.k.a." title is included at the beginning of the Sources field, the entire contents of the field are used as the alternative title. I just tested this—see Powerful China (manga) at the bottom of the list.
IMHO, either an instruction should be added to the submission page to correct this, or the "feature" itself should be corrected. |
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