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Renaming suggestion: Remove colon from title

As seen in the credits for Equestria Girls, there is officially no colon in the title of the show; it's just "My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic". Should the article title be changed? Unknownlight (talk) 09:40, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

See talk page archive 1 (linked at top of page). We are aware that Hasbro will often drop the colon, but more sources use the colon-version than the colon-less, and per WP:COMMONNAME we go with the bulk version (it also makes the obvious subtitle easier to read). --MASEM (t) 13:23, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, Masem. I wish they would do it this way over on the FiM wiki. dogman15 (talk) 17:03, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 5 September 2013

A new DVD was announced at least a month ago called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic- A pony for every season.

I think it should be added to the list of DVDs.

BRgroat (talk) 23:52, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

 Done - Thank you for finding that! --.Yellow1996.^(ЬMИED¡) 01:43, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 19 September 2013

You forgot category anime-influenced animation. 68.5.246.104 (talk) 22:16, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

There's no direct statement that Faust was influenced by anime in making FIM. It's compared to anime, but that doesn't mean its influenced by it. --MASEM (t) 22:18, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

My edit summary

Unfortunately, it got cut off because I accidentally hit "enter" while I was typing it in. Anyway, what it was supposed to say was "Pretty sure that's supposed to be a listing of English airing channels, and for that second part, that probably needs a reliable source".--Jonny Manz (talk) 02:23, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Okay - thanks for clarifying. (The worst that's happened to me is a self (edit conflict)... you can trigger it when you've forgot to type in an edit summary, then quickly type one in while the save page is loading; of course, this only works if you have a slow internet connection like me! ;) --.Yellow1996.^(ЬMИED¡) 02:56, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Moe?

I was reading Moe and when it described the facial features, I couldn't help but think of MLP, especially concerning the Princesses (large eyes, flat face, etc.). I was watching an episode with Princess Cadence and Shining Armor and couldn't help but notice how differently their eyes were drawn (his, more realistic; hers, completely outsized). Is this an example of Moe? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 15:03, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Maybe-- but we'd need some third party sources to make that connection, otherwise we get into original research territory (where there be dragons-- and not the Spike kind). I don't think I've been able to find any such arguments from reliable sources (though there are plenty of DeviantArt works from artists). I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 16:08, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

I understand. It was just an observation and connection I made (definitely synthesis). But being that I'm a casual, new viewer, I assume y'all know the available sources much better than I do. If I ever come across something written in a standard news site, I'll return. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:10, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Huh... as a longtime fan I actually find that quite interesting (and agree); I wasn't aware of that term at all. Though I guess we can't add it to the article unless there's reliable sources documenting it. --.Yellow1996.^(ЬMИED¡) 22:53, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Translations of international versions

What is the policy here about translations of international versions provided simply for understanding? I was reading some rules here, according to them such translations are not considered WP:OP and are generally desired. However they say only about preference of source (official > provided by a Wikipedian > machine translation), but what if few Wikipedians have different opinions about the translation?

The point is, there's been some Edit warring to come between me and NightShadow23 over such diminutive thing as translation of the title, under which Ukrainian dub airs here, «Дружба — це диво». In my opinion as a native-speaking Ukrainian with quite high score in EIET in English, the most appropriate translation would be «Friendship is a wonder». In NightShadow23's opinion, such would be «Friendship is a miracle». Please note that in Russia the series are called «Дружба — это чудо», which is indeed a direct lexical equivalent of the Ukrainian title, if you look it up or use Google Translate, and fits NightShadow23's version the same way.

I am not a native Russian speaker, therefore I cannot suggest how Russian title should be translated, although my reasoning for the Ukrainian one will be following.

«Диво» has many meanings based on context. E.g. resurrection is диво (a miracle); one can tell about a person that they are диво (a wonderful person) Also the corresponding adjectives «дивний» and «дивовижний» are more common—the former means strange, unusual, weird, wondrous, as well as it can be an archaic form of the latter, which means amazing, wonderful, marvelous. Think about the original title Friendship is magic, where magic can mean either a fact of magical feat or a feeling of something wondrous and thrilling. The same applies to the use of «Диво» in Ukrainian title, where it doesn't mean an act of miracle (Friendship is an act of miracle sure does sound stupid, doesn't it?), but rather means friendship is something wonderful and exciting to discover.

Regardless of each other's native language, I would like to hear the point of NightShadow23 and his reasoning. Actine (talk) 22:43, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

1) A miracle is a supernatural or unexplainable phenomena;
A wonder is something that can still adhere to natural rules.
Friendship Is Magic, Magic is supernatural.
2) Ukrainian.Wiktionary: «Диво»—English translation →«miracle» NightShadow23 (talk) 23:32, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

First off, the point of discussion is to come up with the best translation of Ukrainian title, not to adjust it to the original title, therefore your synthesis here is not quite correct. Though generally I agree about that natural vs supernatural thing, I think of a miracle as of occurrence, miracle is something that happens. Like, miracle happened when magic of friendship turned Nightmare Moon back into Luna. And wonder rather defines a state of being excited, thrilled or curious about something, like love is a wonder, the Orient is a wonder, the Seven Wonders of the world.

Regarding magic—as I said, it can be both a supernatural feat (e.g. levitation), as well as holiday/music/sunset can be magical, or one can add magic to their photos by post-processing. In this particular show, magic is used both literally (e.g. when the Mane Six defeat villains with their Elements of Harmony) and figuratively (in most episodes, Twilight learns something new about how heartwarming the 'magic of friendship' is, which is as natural as our human relations). Even with that, 'wonder' is a more appropriate translation than 'miracle', in addition to my original statements.

English Wiktionary provides both 'wonder' and 'miracle' as translations for диво, although they describe only Russian and Old Slavonic uses of this word. Besides, I don't think that translating blindly by a dictionary is the best idea here.

Also, as neither of us are native English speakers, I would hope for some humble Wikipedians who are, to stop by and prove or decline the points here and give an expert resolution. Actine (talk) 20:23, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

I would still say we should remove all "international versions", just as I did previously Talk:My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Archive 5#"International broadcast" sources... That would solve everything.

And if we end up discussing the subtle differences of meanings of non-English words, things are likely to violate Wikipedia:No original research, whatever version we are going to choose... Therefore, unless we have a source (I doubt that), writing nothing is the right approach.

Still, if you are going to reject my proposal, the second best thing would be to write both versions you propose (in alphabetical order). And the really bad thing would be to send the article to Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars while getting blocked... I hope you two won't choose that option... --Martynas Patasius (talk) 22:36, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Hey, worse comes to worse, I think it would be acceptable to move the table over to the FiM Wiki's page for the show (since original research about official material is permitted there; that wiki's definition of "official material"); I've honestly preferred the table this article has to the simple bullet-point list that page has for a while, now.--Jonny Manz (talk) 22:53, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

I used Google translate and got "My Little Pony: Friendship - it is sufficient"...

However as a native English speaker I would say in this context, "wonder" would make a little more sense; to me at least. "Miracle" would still work realatively well too... I'd say just write both. --.Yellow1996.^(ЬMИED¡) 22:50, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

I agree, "wonder" just makes more sense to me as an English speaker, but write both, just to cover your bases.--Jonny Manz (talk) 22:53, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Regarding the table, I saw the reasoning behind its suggested removal, however I don't think it hurts to have it, and I think it does add some value to the article. But I'm pretty indifferent on that matter actually.

I looked through the rules regarding translations, and the only distantly relevant thing I could find is Wikipedia:Verifiability#Non-English_sources. It says that English translations of non-English quotes (not titles though, hence distantly relevant) should be translated into English: if no official translation is available, the one provided by Wikipedians should suffice. Of course I don't want to start edit wars (he did one revert, I did one revert and suggested the conversation) over such small matters, however I'd like to deal with it just for the sake of making article (a bit) better where I can.

In my opinion, having both translations is an overkill and an unnecessary privilege, however if you all are ok with this, and it's the only way to settle this, then I don't mind (although I still think that wonder is much better, not in the context of original title, but as a translation of word диво in the Ukrainian one). Actine (talk) 20:11, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Yeah - I think we should just go with both of them. It will gurantee settle the dispute, and in the end isn't really that overkill. --.Yellow1996.^(ЬMИED¡) 01:16, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Title for Japanese dub

Shouldn't it be My Little Pony ~Tomodachi wa Mahō~ (well, with that end part in Japanese instead of romanized, but still)? At first I thought it was because of WP:COMMONNAME, but then I realize I can't think of a single source that calls it that, outside of the logo, but even on the logo, the "My Little Pony" in English is far more prominent than the katakana underneath it, and then there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 articles from Anime News Network that put the beginning portion in English, rather than katakana (or romanized katakana, for that matter). Also, I think it would be acceptable to list "Friendship is Magic" as an alternative title, next to "Friends are Magic", what do you think?--Jonny Manz (talk) 05:18, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

I agree. Also, have "Friendship is Magic" as an alt. title (perhaps using one of those articles as a source.) --.Yellow1996.^(ЬMИED¡) 22:45, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Done (I added a source just to be safe, but I don't really think it needs one).--Jonny Manz (talk) 21:22, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Looks great. Nice work! :) --.Yellow1996.^(ЬMИED¡) 02:44, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!--Jonny Manz (talk) 05:27, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

See Also Section and Link to Wikiquote

It would be nice for formatting reasons to adjust the See Also section to be similar to the general wikipedia format as well as adding a link to the wikiquote page. Page is locked, so I can't do it. But it needs clean up. --Jsourber (talk) 18:41, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

I wasn't quite sure what you meant about "general Wikipedia formatting" but I added the link to Wikiquotes.--Jonny Manz (talk) 21:22, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

They might mean links to other wiki articles, other than just the portal/WQ boxes. --.Yellow1996.^(ЬMИED¡) 02:47, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Oh, ok, that makes sense.--Jonny Manz (talk) 05:27, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Add The Flowing

Add UnuderNeef Friendship Is Magic (With The Performers Wighters But Before End Theme) In The Theme Song Section

Go And Fly Performed By Unknown (Italy And Some Parts Of Germany) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.156.210.251 (talk) 08:31, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

We only add songs from the English version here. You should go to the Italian and German Wikipedias for this. --.Yellow1996.^(ЬMИED¡) 17:32, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

The New DVD

The Latest MLPFIM DVD Is Called "Princess's Magic And More" And Was Released 7/08/13 By Dhx Media, Vancouver Animation, Hasbro Studios And YTV. DVD Contains

Magic Ture Ends (S4E27) The Strone Sing (S4E1) Who Calls The Film And Flam (S4E29) Walt Pony (S4E23) Friendship Is Magic TV (S4E27) Games Ponies Play (S3E12) StarSong's Picx (S4E25)

 Bonus Material

Sing Along (The 1st Transformation) Pound Puppies (S1E22) Cool Toy Adverts

 Setup

English Danish French CZ Polish Italian German Finish Dutch Bulgarian Croatian Japanese Korean Chinese Thai — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.155.204.64 (talk) 19:07, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure this is a hoax, not just because "Magic Ture Ends" (which we've run into many times before!) was mentioned, but because I searched on google and didn't even find fan speculation on this. --.Yellow1996.^(ЬMИED¡) 22:03, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Region 2 Season 1 release

The first season was released on March 29th this year both on Blu Ray and on DVD in region 2. --87.148.94.49 (talk) 11:55, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

He's referring to Series overview section. According to Amazon.de the German release is Region 0 (world wide). See also: List of My Little Pony DVD releases.

<rant>This region nonsense should be dropped. While it makes sense lumping the English speaking 50 States and 5 Canadian provinces (+French subtitles for the bilingual laws) as Region 1, but the other mappings make no sense! Japan with Western Europe/Middle East. English speaking Australia with the Portuguese/Spanish speaking South America.</rant> If kept, I'd suggest list the release language, e.g. German - March 29, 2013. --100.1.114.46 (talk) 16:45, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Hungarian title

The Hungarian title in the international broadcast box would be correctly Én kicsi pónim – Varázslatos barátság (or Én kicsi pónim: Varázslatos barátság if you want to keep the colon). - 31.46.255.25 (talk) 06:30, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Please add info about Bulgarian release

The show was premiered on 2 September 2013 on Super7 channel under a title Малкото пони: Приятелството е магия (Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) Jonas1750 (talk) 21:28, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Done. Actine (talk) 22:53, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

More dubs available?

I keep hearing about Greek, Canadian French, and Thai dubs being released, but I haven't been able to pinpoint any proper citations about those. Yet, many of these dubs are appearing on YouTube. Hope(N Forever) (talk) 23:28, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 March 2014

Please let me fix this very incorrect document for you

Rainbowdashrainbowdash (talk) 13:47, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Not done: this is not the right page to request additional user rights. You may reopen this request with the specific changes to be made and someone will add them for you, or if you have an account, you can wait until you are autoconfirmed and edit the page yourself. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 14:18, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, you didn't even say what was supposedly "incorrect" about it. Dogman15 (talk) 18:32, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

a new eposote

they should make a eposote where shining armer divorces cadence — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.99.197 (talk) 19:13, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

I am not sure if they should, but regardless of any opinions, Wikipedia is not a discussion forum. Talk pages are for discussing how to improve the article. Anon126 (talk - contribs) 20:40, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Contested deletion

This page should not be speedy deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement, because... (your reason here) --67.3.88.179 (talk) 23:36, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

What exactly are you talking about? Gial Ackbar (talk) 08:02, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Q&A with Stephen Davis

Right now, this seems to be the only reliable source we have regarding a confirmation for season five. The problem is, its access is blocked and the cached archive doesn't seem to exist at all. What sort of action would we set about with regards to this, being such a contentious, significant claim?

Also, while I'm here, I was wondering about A-class guidelines. Do you guys think that the article (which has since become reasonably stable) qualifies for a look-through against these requirements, as it is still not quite ready for FA-class? Cheers ~Helicopter Llama~ 00:44, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Actual licence holder in Japan

I found a copyright disclaimer in the official Japanese website. I'm not fluent in Japanese at all, but judging from the wording, it is actually We've Inc. (WP ja article) that holds Japanese rights for all things G4 MLP, while Bushiroad does marketing using all their resources like Milky Holmes voice actresses. If my theory is proved to be right, I'm going to fix all the related statements within English Wikipedia. I need someone fluent in Japanese and understands anime industry to help me. Who's with me? JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 08:46, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Never mind. Come over here. JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 12:37, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Scratch that. The same question over there was archived without answer.

Anyway, I learned that the Japanese version of FIM is an AT-X/We've Inc. co-production. What are We've Inc. actually doing with FIM? JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 13:18, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

It doesn't matter who holds it in Japan for purposes of en.wiki. --MASEM (t) 14:05, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

But I want to make sure all the facts are clear so I can fix some entries like Takara, Tomy, Bushiroad and Template:Hasbro to reflect them. JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 14:22, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 24 April 2014

Add Category:Infomercials to the list of categories in the article. 177.228.40.183 (talk) 02:16, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Why? I don't think My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has anything to do with infomercials. Ngyikp (talk) 02:29, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Not done: Per Ngyikp. Jackmcbarn (talk) 02:50, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

The Magic Clown, for example, is in the category of infomercials due to being "a vehicle to sell candy". My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is a vehicle to sell toys. I think they are pretty similar in that regard.177.228.40.183 (talk) 03:05, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

An informercial has no subtly about its attempt to want you to buy something showing how much something would cost and the like. On the other hand, this show makes no connection to the fact there's a toy line and to drive the viewer to buy them. So no, this is nothing like an information. "Toyetic" would be way to describe what MLP is doing. --MASEM (t) 05:55, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

What do you mean it's semi-protected the article, tell me why? --AllenHAcNguyen (talk) 02:30, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Merge with List of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic characters

Please move to the discussion on the list page

 – Immblueversion raised this proposal on that page first, so discussion should take place there to avoid fragmentation. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 21:41, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

I propose we merge the List of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic characters with this page.

I've worked on improving the list on my sandbox for well over a year, and I haven't made any breakthroughs. A lot of the major, reliable sources for the characters' creation and reception that I've found already overlap with this page and others, and I haven't been able to find much else beyond questionable and self-published sources such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and the like. Not a whole lot of characters on the list even have any widespread coverage, let alone any coverage at all. I believe the "Characters" section on this page is sufficient for this topic the way it is; we could even restructure it like the "Cast and characters" section on The Legend of Korra, which has no character list of its own, and has a good article rank to boot.

If anyone here is able to find the reliable sources necessary to support this other article, then by all means, please add them. Until then, I ask that you please consider this merger. User:Immblueversion (talk) 18:45, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 May 2014

You know at the top of the page where it says things like "For the comic book, see [link to comic page]? I think EG should be with those, seeing is how it's just as separated from the show as the comics and game. It should say this "For the spin-off film, see [Link to EG page]"

that's all I've got to say right now, bye.

Frontdoor6 (talk) 15:41, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

I don't believe it's necessary per normal hat note rules; the comic book (as well as the video game from Gameloft) have the same exact name ("MLP:FIM"), but the movie is subtitled and provided an exact separation. The navbox at the bottom of the article provides all the appropriate links. --MASEM (t) 15:47, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 15:00, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Season 5 [Announced]

It appears that Season 5 announced to premiere after Rainbow Rocks in Fall 2014. --AllenHAcNguyen (talk) 01:02, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

I think the 5th season will premiere next year because after Rainbow Rocks we go on. --Allen Nguyen ^Talk 03:00, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Actually Tweets on the day of the season finale from the production team said that series 5 would premiere in 2015. Yes, I know a long wait. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:10, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Tooniverse broadcast

South Korea have announced My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic on Tooniverse channel broadcast since this year, because I accorded to this article there's My Little Pony in Korean version on Tooniverse or English maybe. --Allen Nguyen ^Talk 03:09, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

It was announced Korean dub in South Korea of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, so I'm going to add it. --Allen Nguyen ^Talk 22:52, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 June 2014

Cabronx72000 (talk) 00:33, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 June 2014

Cabronx72000 (talk) 00:34, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

No change requested, so no change made. To request an edit, you must state what you what changed. —C.Fred (talk) 00:35, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Reverted description edits, semi-protect request

I reverted the page because of the description was incorrect that contains inappropriate name, so I fixed it and it's supposed to be correct that way. --AllenHAcNguyen (talk) 01:36, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 June 2014

2602:306:384B:A160:80AD:CEA8:66F4:45C9 (talk) 22:12, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

No change made, there was a copy of the complete article here, which I removed, but did not differ from the current state of the article. Therefor it is not clear what change was requested. Gial Ackbar (talk) 07:34, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

I prefer this article is remain protected from vandalizing until there's some changes and I would do undo users' vandalism edit revision. --Allen ^Talk 06:20, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 July 2014

2602:306:384B:A160:E899:8C1:EDDB:AA5E (talk) 21:15, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

No change requested, so no change made. To request an edit, you must state what you what changed. Gial Ackbar (talk) 10:27, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 July 2014

2602:306:384B:A160:E899:8C1:EDDB:AA5E (talk) 21:15, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

No change requested, so no change made. To request an edit, you must state what you what changed. Gial Ackbar (talk) 10:27, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Season 5 Premiere

Do you think the 5th season is going to premiere on early 2015? Who edited there? --Allen ^talk 16:03, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Discussion about the navbox

Resolved

 – Done, non-articles removed from navbox. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 18:05, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:MLP FiM#WP:EXISTING?. Thanks. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 16:47, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

What happened? --Allen ^talk 18:36, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

"The show broadcasts internationally in dozens of countries in more than twenty languages."

Can anyone help cite that? It's too specific to go unsourced. -Λίνουξ (talk) 18:34, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

At one point we had a table of list of international broadcasts with sources, but it was removed per the WP TV project guidelines. The source from that could be bundled as a single ref for that. --MASEM (t) 18:39, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, apparently, this was the last time the table was used, citation can be found there. Since then, the show has aired in Greece, too, dubbed, and shockingly is on Nickelodeon!. I will try to combine all that. -Λίνουξ (talk) 20:14, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

The other international versions of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is different than regular English, simply they have one in other countries that are broadcasted including TV Tokyo in Japan for Japanese, Tooniverse in South Korea for Korean and YOYO TV in Taiwan for Chinese versions. --Allen ^{(talk to me! / ctrb / E-mail me)} 07:21, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

I'm sorry, Allen, I don't understand your reply. I had some trouble trying to cite <ref name="Brand building"/>, though. I'm still new at this. -Λίνουξ (talk) 09:02, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

As you're trying to cite the reference on this article, the Greek dub has already aired by Nickelodeon channel in Greece! --Allen ^{(talk to me! / ctrb / E-mail me)} 21:59, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Indeed, but I'm not sure what to cite any more. I give up. -Λίνουξ (talk) 06:43, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Cite reference with Tooniverse

I'm having trouble trying to cite the Tooniverse site where I want to see is My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic over there, where Korean dub have aired over there in South Korea last at April 2014. --Allen ^{(talk to me! / ctrb / E-mail me)} 21:35, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

More navbox concerns

You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:MLP FiM#A bunch of new cast links. Thanks. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 21:56, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Season 3 broadcast of Japanese dub

I don't know if I'm trying to cite the 3rd season of the Japanese dub of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, because the article from Equestria Daily seen here was a suggestion. Basically, Cartoon Network can't be airing the 3rd season over there, but also TV Tokyo channel can air the 3rd season if it was announced by Bushiroad. --Allen ^{(talk to me! / ctrb / E-mail me)} 17:06, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 November 2014

Controversy My Little Pony is controversial because parents say that some episodes are violent.

Poopypants9999 (talk) 20:47, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Cannolis (talk) 21:34, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Orphaned references in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "shout":

• From Rolling Stone: "Documentation of attempt to change reviews". Shoutmouth.com. Archived from the original on June 30, 2007. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
• From Blossom (TV series): "Shout! Factory Sends Over a Very Special Press Release for Blossom — Seasons 1&2" (Press release). TV Shows on DVD. December 10, 2008. Retrieved 2014-09-08.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 19:07, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Fixed. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 20:00, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

"childrens" tag in the opener

I am curious of the opening line "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is a children's[2] animated television series" While I understand that the shows demographic is as the citation says "4 to 7", however I don't see other children's programs having this tagline on them. I cite the pages of "The Powerpuff Girls", "Camp Lazlo", "Gravity Falls" and "Transformers Prime". None of this have children's line at the start.

Being an animated show is what it IS, surely the intended demographic isn't part of what the show is on a technical level. Otherwise other pages should have it too.

Looking over the history page, it seems that this was put in by 'NightShadow23' to replace another inappropriate description of the show. (15:07, 15 June 2014‎)

Wouldn't it be more appropriate and more consistent with other pages to have the opener simply be "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is a Canadian/American[2] animated television series" as it has been in the past? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jack pipsam (talk • contribs) 14:32, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Given that the second sentence spells out the target demo (preping for the brony phenom later), and that Faust's intention was a show that parents would not get bored watching with their children, I would say it would be best to remove "children" or "family" for this first sentence. --MASEM (t) 19:08, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

I would not mid that but it needs to be sourced. The current version has a (first-party) reference that the show aims at children. Of course a show targeting children must also target their parents, but the writers said many times that their main target are still young girls, despite the brony fandom. Therefor it should not be changed without a (preferable second or third-party) source, not just a mention of Faust, who no longer takes part in the show proofing that it is indeed family-orientated, not just children-orientated. Gial Ackbar (talk) 19:22, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Protocol for clarifying fan and canon names?

Would it be acceptable/essential to add PON3 and Whooves' new canon names to the description under the article? A little note like "Since then, Hasbro has officially designated DJ-PON3 as Vinyl Scratch and Doctor Whooves as Time Turner, as well as trademarking Derpy." I feel like not only does it add information but also gives a little nod to how fandom and Hasbro have acknowledged each other.Ihadurca Il Imella (talk) 20:35, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

The problem is that we don't have confirmation that they've done that, so we should keep to how the sources use the names. --MASEM (t) 21:08, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Unless we have it, there is no way to confirm it. JJ98 (Talk) 05:47, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

The trading cards wouldn't be considered canon/show related? I thought they were. My bad then if so. Thought it might be close enough. I'll just keep that in my hat for later then. Ihadurca Il Imella (talk) 12:38, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Sourcing for announcement of third Equestria Girls film

I added {{verify credibility}} to a statement sourced to Equestria Daily, stating: Previous discussions at WP:RSN establish that Equestria Daily is reliable only for exclusive interviews. This can be attested through a search.

Prince Silversaddle has removed this tag, so (following bold, revert, discuss), I'd like some input on this, either from Silversaddle or other contributors. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 04:06, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Additional comment: I am confident that the statement can be sourced, but it's just that Equestria Daily does not seem to be a good way to do it. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 04:08, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

The presentation documentation from Hasbro can be found here: [1] so we can use that for direct confirmation. --MASEM (t) 04:10, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Cited. I used {{cite report}}, which seems to be the best fit here. If someone wants to use a different CS1 template, feel free to change it. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 06:32, 16 February 2015 (UTC)