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I'm not sure if this will help any, but List_of_Emperors_of_Japan has it that a lot of Emperors of Japan change their name after they take rule. (Korea and China is like this too.) I was wondering if this helps explain some of the name changing in Usagi between royal rule and domestic form. It would at least correlate some of the reason Usagi took on the name Neo Queen Serenity in the future an also why Chibiusa didn't know Usagi (as in the name) is her mother. Same with King Endymion. I wonder if this kisses OR. Bt I would think this is something that Japanese would know widely, but the English Speaking world wouldn't.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 23:35, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

I think we can certainly get away with saying she takes a regnal name and that this is common for Japanese rulers. Except that the posthumous name article conflicts with this idea, stating that Japanese emperors don't take on new names until they're dead. --Masamage ♫ 02:56, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

What's funny is that the articles contradict each other. For example Emperor Saga says there was a name before becoming emperor, then a name after death is given by the article you cited, but that means the Emperor while he's alive has no name. Maybe it's like the Korean system? The Korean system has three names. (well four, but that's too much Korean culture). One for when he's a prince, one for the emperor while alive, and one for when the emperor is dead. The Korean articles make this much, much more clear. And since Chinese and Korean systems are similar, I think Japanese would be too... but I did leave a comment and ask. If I find out, then we can add it.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 15:32, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Going to Watch Live Action Series

So what info do we need from the live action? I want to be able to take efficient notes. I'll start approx. next week... Any basic or complex info?--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 15:59, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Nothing springs to mind; I think we've got everything basic. I'm sure you'll pick up some useful stuff, but even having seen it I can't guess that it might be. :) Different people spot different things. --Masamage ♫ 17:51, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

We could always make a stab at some episode summaries? In some ways PGSM gets different enough from Classic that a guide could be useful. -Malkinann (talk) 09:23, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

It's been done. See here. --  Denelson83  13:31, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

You could make the same argument about the regular episodes, (Wikimoon, The Oracle, Hitoshi Doi...) but that hasn't stopped us from having a short summary for each. -Malkinann (talk) 18:47, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

I know we don't need any information on attacks. I made sure I got that when I watched it the first time around. More information on PGSM's version of the Silver Crystal would help though. I don't recall us ever actully seeing it outside of Usagi's body but i've also been getting the feeling that the Crystal on Princess Sailor Moon's Brooch is the Silver Crystal. Lego3400: The Sage of Time (talk) 17:46, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Episode 1

• The crescent compact from the Sailor V series shows up in Episode 1 of the live action. (Compared to the SM manga where it was only a transformation item.)
  • It's not a compact, just a throwing item In PGSM- Lego
• 4-20 is the number of the house on the Tsukino residence.
• Naru's actress played as Sailor Mercury in the Sailor Moon Musicals.
• Naru's mother is given a name of "Mayumi Osaka" and instead of owning a Jewelery store, she's a Jewelry designer. (This is on the sign outside of the center in two places.)
• The plot about Tuxedo Mask being a thief shows up in this episode.
• The compact looks different and is like the Comic compact, and is carried on a necklace instead of on front of the shirt.
• The idea of the cellphone transformation by taking a picture is introduced here.
• Shingo, Ikuko-mama and Haruna as well as a cameo by Ami are introduced.
• A scene from episode 1 also looks a lot like episode 3? 5? Something like that where Usagi tries to become a model. (Matches anime shot work a lot too.)
• Luna's crescent glows dark pink for Usagi, but yellow when producing an object. It glows red for enemies.
• Minako Aino's poster is on Usagi's wall.
• Jadeite first turns up in disguise when he first appears, as a teenger with headphones.
• The appearance of the Youma is also different from manga and anime.
• The Youma shoots purple energy and has many human hands coming from it.
• The objective to collect energy is introduced, but not with what purpose.
• There are costume changes on Sailor Moon. Most notable is that the earrings are like the manga, not the anime and the boots are not red, but a dark pink.
• Moon healing escalation is used to defeat the Youma, and not the boomerang. It's also different from the anime attack in that she doesn't trace a circle in the same way.

• This episode's Youma is the only one done in CG until Speical Act. The rest are people in costumes, similar to Super Sentai. -Lego

I'm not sure which is useful, but it probably will help a little. Basic plot of this episode is that Usagi a lazy crybaby recieves magical powers from a stuffed magical toy cat who says she's a Sailor Senshi.

I also watched episode 2, and haven't gotten to 3, but I'm a little wiped out. I'll do them later.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 03:37, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Added a few things of my own ^-^ --Lego3400: The Sage of Time (talk) 17:19, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Takeuchi's opinion on the Rainbow Crystal arc?

Has Takeuchi ever expressed an opinion on what she felt about the Rainbow Crystal arc? (like she did with the Starlights becoming main - and bodyshifting - characters in Sailor Stars) Was it like the Makaiju arc in that it was made up to fill in time, or was it made as "extender" for Classic by the animation company? -Malkinann (talk) 21:29, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

It was an extender because the anime was getting ahead of the manga.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 01:10, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Update to the Official Website

The Official Website's main animation changed to include the Outer Senshi. I'm not sure if that's noteworthy or not. There's also new letters to Luna and a new splash page. Oh! And Usagi's "henshin" color on the website is a darker pink than Chibiusa's which is a shift from before... minor things... but it's mainly the reinclusion of the Outers I'm pointing to. (Besides, it's cut from a fangirl perspective)--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 01:10, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Profiles haven't been added for the remaining three outers and only 1 item has been added from the looks of it --Lego3400: The Sage of Time (talk) 18:57, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

She's adding them as she's going through the chapters and animating them. I was pointing to the animation itself. The new opening to the page. (if you don't click the skip button.)--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 12:35, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

I know that XP. I was just point that out so no one went looking only to not find them and wasted their timeLego3400: The Sage of Time (talk) 17:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Template

Cyrus XIII did a massive update to the navigation template. I reverted it as no dicussion preceded it and left them a note to dicuss such massive changes with us, and why we have layed out the way we currently do. Lego3400: The Sage of Time (talk) 16:43, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

I personally think the changes he made[1] were quite good and a much needed improvement. Then again, there are so many issues with the Sailor Moon pages, whats an oversized template matter. AnmaFinotera (talk) 16:48, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, those changes are fine. Meanwhile, I suspect that if you, Collectonian, put half the energy into actually editing these articles that you do into aggressively insulting them we might make some real progress. --Masamage ♫ 21:03, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

As the comment has no topicality here, I will reply on my talk page with my reply to your other message. AnmaFinotera (talk) 23:57, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Interpretation?

I'm having some trouble interpreting a segment of the Anime Encyclopedia article on SM. It goes, after talking about how the dub was brought to America, shown at early dead airtimes and it flopped. then it goes "SM's failure was an object lesson in how a multimedia sensation, heavily reliant on merchandising tie-ins, can crash without adequate support - Bandai would not make the same mistake with the later Pokemon." I'm not sure what it's getting at. Any ideas? -Malkinann (talk) 01:11, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Story Locations

The Locations page seems to have been deleated... Was this discussed and I just missed it or or was it just deleated?Lego3400: The Sage of Time (talk) 18:45, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

The community saw it as fancruft. --  Denelson83  19:59, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Here is the deletion discussion. --Masamage ♫ 05:25, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

>_< Baka... Why do we (or me at least) never learn about these things until after they are done >_< 71.182.141.139 (talk) 07:20, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

GA Sweeps

So, I hear there are these things called sweeps, which are periodic reassessments of good articles. (Please note that it isn't neccessary for an article to go through the reassessment discussion if the case against the article is considered "clear-cut".) Given the news at WP:ANIME, I think we're close to getting swept. Are we ready for it? -Malkinann (talk) 02:23, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

For most of the part, maybe we need a quick grammer and vocab check. I think the only thing that is missing within our articles is the lack of reception and influence information. Perhaps we can dig up information on the toys, figures and dolls made in likeness of the characters? The only concern last time with the assessment of our GA articles was the lack of merchandise information. Gashapon was pretty famous, and I have the entire set for the Outers plus the promotional papers you get along with them for the other gashapon figures. However, its difficult to cite due to Amazon not having those items. Bandai also created Star Fighter, Healer and Maker figures about 8 inches tall maybe, as well as the Inners, Sailor Moon and Eternal if I'm not mistaken. Sailor Uranus and Neptune also have their Bandai figures as well. Thoughts?--Hanaichi

The discussion on whether Amazon was a RS seemed to indicate that any shop where the merchandise is being sold can be considered a RS for purposes of proving an item's existence. -Malkinann (talk) 03:07, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

I can't seem to find a shop that actually sold the gashapons other then the collectors shops in Japan lol. Yellow Submarine was one, as well as Super Position. I'm quite sure that once upon a time maybe places sold it, perhaps during the 1990s, but now stock ran out and you can only find those rare rare items in collectors shops.--Hanaichi 03:43, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

As long as we can get a source saying that there were SM gashapons, I'm not sure we need to go into heaps more detail. There were also UFO catcher dolls? -Malkinann (talk) 03:45, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Yea there were, except I couldn't buy them due to my low budget >< But I know there were, ebay constantly have sellers putting them up for auction. The UFO doll series set I saw had Sailor Moon and the Inners, Uranus & Neptune. I didn't see Saturn or Pluto for some reason. It has been stated continously by various people however that Saturn items were extremely expensive and rare. --Hanaichi 03:51, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Stop me there but... Esoteric term alert! "gashapons" undefined. --  Denelson83  05:07, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

You probably already checked, but just to be sure: what about Amazon Japan? --Masamage ♫ 04:33, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Forgot about that =[ I would go check but hehe, I can't read Japanese at all.--Hanaichi 06:01, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

What're these thingies? -Malkinann (talk) 07:23, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Which one are you referring to? The last one is the Luna in human form gashapon figure, the ones that look like wood cravings are DIY figures that were made.--Hanaichi 08:10, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

digit code

want the digit code —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.187.193.135 (talk) 22:24, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

The what? --Masamage ♫ 03:37, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

I know what that anon is talking about—this. --  Denelson83  05:09, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Cutie Honey

Cutie Honey is a series that has spanned from the 70s to pretty much now. Hitoshi Doi says that most of the animation staff thought that Sailor Moon would be like Cutie Honey. After Sailor Stars finished airing, Cutie Honey Flash took its timeslot and attempted to scoop up the audience too, by toning itself down for them. So, my question is, is this relevant to the Sailor Moon articles, or fancruft? I think it's cool, but I'd like a second opinion. -Malkinann (talk) 08:40, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Last Friends

Hello guys. I've been doing some drama watching (I really shouldn't, exams are in less then a month) and Last Friends was a VERY interesting drama indeed. Why? It being centered around the current generation issues (Domestic violence and Gender Identity Disorder), 2 of the main characters are named Ruka and Michiru. Oh btw, Ruka is the person with the Gender Identity Disorder. Michiru doesn't, she's the kind of pathetic woman who gets beaten up by her boyfriend *shudders*

Interestingly enough I was like "OMG its like Haruka and Michiru!" but then I read an online forum translation of the TokyoWalker magazine, and the screenwriter said in response to the question:

"There's a rumour going on especially among overseas fangirls that Ruka and Michiru's name came from Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon's characters Haruka and Michiru. So, what's the deal?"

"That's not true. In actuality, they were simply decided one way or another. The name Ruka has a great form to it I think. And it's also suitable to be used for either a guy or a girl. Other than that, Ruka, Michiru and Takeru, these 3 names have a 'ru' in them which I think gives them a bond/connection with each other. Like their names being connected together by a syllable, I wish to portray the same feeling on screen as well. In trying to bring out the image of being tied together, we thought it would be nice to include a same sound in them. The name Michiru was inspired fro what the producer, Nakano-san said before. That probably somehow influenced the name. There's also the inspiration when seeing the actors too, somehow it just feels like Michiru, or just feels like Ruka."

Interesting tidbit eh? Dunno whether it fits in though XD --Hanaichi 13:43, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

That is interesting. It probably doesn't fit in, though, since the point of it is that it has nothing to do with Sailor Moon. Also, I think if any beating was going to happen, it would Michiru on Haruka. XD --Masamage ♫ 17:44, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Lol yea, most likely. However, considering there is a 10 year gap between the two series (1998 - 2008) this goes to show that people STILL remember Sailor Moon after that long. --Hanaichi 09:25, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Offical site Updated

The offical site has been updated since the last time we looked with profiles for Haruka and Michiru.Lego3400: The Sage of Time (talk) 00:08, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Miyuki Kanbe has passed away

While this is more of a forum type thing it is relevant to our project. For those of you who aren't aware, Miyuki Kanbe, one of the actress who played Usagi in the stage musicals, passed away on the 18th due to heart Failure. She was only 24 when she died. Lego3400: The Sage of Time (talk) 05:26, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Ughh....*groans* My god Miyuki was the best Usagi out there...may she rest in peace. -.- Depressing, the entire musical community out there is mourning for her. Marina also posted a message on her blog about it. --Hanaichi

Takeuchi and PGSM

I added more info to her profile. Could someone check it over and the discussion? If we could get that ONE source for her involvement with PGSM, and expand that section a bit more... anything you guys have it would tremendously help to get that article up to GA. =P The only one in that category (mangaka).

Please Check this Source. Is this too vague in involvement?: http://www.sailormoon.ws/archives/100203.html Sawai: Currently the difficult part is: "We're freezing!" Takeuchi-sensei, please draw warmer costume designs! Q8. Tell me what you thought when you first met Takeuchi Naoko.

Sawai: She's as cute as I had thought! She's always smiling and at the auditions she really helped relieve tension.

http://www.sailormoon.ws/archives/112703.html The first time I met her [Naoko Takeuchi] was when I was being measured for my costume. I received a lot of gently-put advice from her. [She says this using very formal speech.] Later, when they had decided upon Mako-chan's uniform, I got to speak to her about various subjects in depth, and I was really happy about that. --Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 02:38, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

My feeling is that the first snippet (about the warmer costume designs) is way too vague - one could make the argument that the PGSM team were simply working off Takeuchi's manga designs (which would *still* have been too cold!!). I'd be very interested in getting the translation of Sawai's response to question 8 checked - one would think that the auditions would be before costume measurements (which is when the second link says she first met Takeuchi). It's a bit contradictory. :( -Malkinann (talk) 12:47, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Those are different people. ^^;; One played Sailor Jupiter and One played Sailor Moon. Myuu and Miyuu... Are those two comments too vague to put in.. that she was at the auditions and costume fitting?--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 18:03, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Subpage reorganization

With the creation of List of Sailor Moon chapters, the Sailor Moon (manga) article has become a bit redundant, most of the information there being contained (or containable) in the chapter list, the main article, and the five arc articles. And somewhat in the eventual side-stories article.

Same goes for the Sailor Moon (anime) article, as the only really new information it contains is the music section, which can be merged out to the main article. The trivia section can just die its well-deserved death. :P

Other proposals have also been made, including splitting the List of Sailor Moon episodes into five different list articles. Each episode would have a brief summary, and that would be our primary plot/story coverage for the series. Release information and reception can probably be covered there, too, as well as a minor coverage of the very large changes made in the transition to the anime (especially such changes as Takeuchi has actually commented on). This actually makes the current arc articles redundant, so my recommendation would be that we just change their names to reflect the shift in focus: Sailor Moon R to List of Sailor Moon R episodes and so on.

Since the first anime series is just called "Sailor Moon" (only the manga is Dark Kingdom, strictly speaking), it should have the name "List of Sailor Moon episodes". The edit history that currently lives there should be moved to "List of Sailor Moon episodes (disambiguation)" or some such thing, which would link to all five of them (with a see-also to PGSM or wherever its episodes end up).

In the end, our project "tree" would look like this:

• Main article explaining series-wide info for each medium, plus the English adaptations and the music section
• Five episode sub-articles, comprising List of Sailor Moon episodes (for the first season), List of Sailor Moon R episodes, List of Sailor Moon S episodes, List of Sailor Moon Supers episodes, and List of Sailor Moon Sailor Stars episodes.
• The manga sub-article, List of Sailor Moon chapters (which should also have summaries)

...And all the other stuff. This is much smaller than what it's currently going toward, which is five arc articles, five episode articles, an anime article, a manga article, and a chapter article. Which would be terrifying.

Any thoughts? We should work toward getting this reorg done as soon as possible. If there are no huge objections, I would be happy to get to work on it this coming weekend ('cause I have lots of free time for once). --Masamage ♫ 22:12, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, we probably needed to take another look at the article organisation anyway, since the creation of the manga chapter list. I feel that the disambiguation page for the episode lists should be at "List of Sailor Moon episodes", and that we should disambiguate the first season with (first season) or something - most people who look for Sailor Moon episodes would be looking for the lot rather than one specific season. On the other hand, by happy coincidence, it's the first season, so maybe the point is moot? Also, hooray for free time! :D -Malkinann (talk) 22:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Little suggestion: Bleach has done a fine job on their episode list by creating one huge episode compilation list (List of Bleach episodes) and then linking to the other sub articles such as season 1 etc etc which have the plot outline, production and stuff. I think we should follow a similar structure, so... perhaps rename those articles to "List of Sailor Moon episodes (season 1)"? OR it could remain the way it is (such as Dark Kingdom arc) and just put all the episode list relating to the season there.--Hanaichi

Collectonian suggested that, too, on another talk page, noting that the Naruto articles did that and are all featured. Seems to be a good idea. She also advises the "List of..." names because of how that part will be gigantic and kinda dominate the article. --Masamage ♫ 15:27, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

List of Bleach episodes is a bit lacking actually - the lead needs definite improvement, more references are needed, and the massive plot summaries need to go, but the splitting among seasons is appropriate. A more appropriate model is the FL List of YuYu Hakusho episodes. The child lists from List of Sailor Moon episodes should be List of Sailor Moon episodes (season 1), etc. (don't follow the old Bleach convention of extremely convuluted list titles using the story arcs). Sephiroth BCR ^(Converse) 00:50, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Remember to comment on this if you haven't yet! You should also look at Talk:List of Sailor Moon episodes for the most recent discussion and for the test article that's going to replace the current episode list. I plan on making the first round of big changes tomorrow, which is Friday, so get your input in! --Masamage ♫ 19:11, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay, the changes to List of Sailor Moon episodes and its new sub-articles are complete. Hooray! I think they look pretty good, but Collectonian has already tagged the crap out of them, so if you see any way to make them acceptable feel free to go in and make it happen. Lots of cleanup in the episode summaries themselves needs doing, too. I'll work on the anime and manga article merges later; this has been an all-day project and I need a break. --Masamage ♫ 21:04, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Template:Sailor Moon update

I recently updated the SM navbox to use {{navbox}}, which made it look far neater (IMHO ;) ). This change was then reverted by Denelson83, who left a note on my page asking to discuss the change. Looking through the template's talk page, its history, and this page, I see that a similar change has been made (2) and reverted (2) in the past. At this time, I would like to point out that generally, {{Navbox}} is the preferred method for creating and maintaining navboxes, is easy to maintain (certainly easier than the nested tables currently being used), and gives very clean-looking output. Each of the times that the template has been updated to use it, the result - both source and output - has been cleaner-looking, and each time, it seems to have been reverted for reasoning along the lines of "we've always had it this way, and I think it works better" or "well, this change was tried before and reverted, so there must be a good reason". Of course, I don't want to sound like I'm assuming bad faith (wait, is it too late for that? ;P ), so I'd be very interested in hearing what the general project's opinions on this whole issue are: how do you feel about the current layout vs. the Navbox layout, why do you support/oppose an update with {{Navbox}}, and if you oppose, what would be necessary to get you to support? Also note that to get a wider opinion on this issue, I'll be leaving a note on the Animanga project's talk page pointing to the discussion here. —Dinoguy1000 16:49, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

I think your version is a vast improvement. Much cleaner, much easier for those who aren't familiar with the series to follow, and it reduces the current version's excessive height to something more appropriate. Its also way easier to manage, especially for non-template experts. I really don't see a good reason for the SM template not to follow standard conventions. I strongly support the update. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 17:02, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

I think the new one is ugly, personally. >_> However, I also don't really care enough to resist if you all think there's a compelling good reason for it. It's just that, until now, no one's ever bothered to gives reasons for such changes (some of which have been much uglier and weirder), so it has continued to be reverted based pretty much on aesthetics. But your explanation makes sense, and if it improves functionality, I'm fine with it. As long as we can play with how it looks. --Masamage ♫ 18:57, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Personally I don't like the new one either. How is that in any sense better? I think it looks more cramp and visually I can't even pick out anything. The old one however looks much cleaner in the sense that I know where the protagonist and antagonist are, and can pick them out easily. For aesthetics reasons, because we have so many notable characters and pages, I suggest we keep the navbox the way it is. --Hanaichi 22:59, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Visually, I marginally prefer the new version, because I almost always find left-justified text easier to read than centered text. As a copyeditor with an interest in human factors, I strongly prefer the new version because it's the standard for Wikipedia as a whole, and the more consistancy there is across articles, the easier they all are to use and read. —Quasirandom (talk) 23:20, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

I think the version using {{navbox}} is much cleaner and easier to read. The only thing I prefer about the current version is the small "logo" image. If there was a way to incorporate it into the {{navbox}} version, that would be good. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 03:43, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Personally I prefer the Navbox version, but would have handled the characters differently; example:

G.A.S 05:04, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Hm, the version you provided seems to be preferable G.A.S. The concern I have was due to the amount of pages, the SM navbox had to have sufficient clearance space around the links for better visual ease. Gas's version of it seems ok I suppose, but my eyes still prefer the old one. The current nav box is well arranged as you can see the 3 members of the royal moon family (Moon, Chibi and Tuxedo), then the next line is the inners and after that is the outers, as opposed to the proposed nav box where the characters are all bunched up in no group order.--Hanaichi

Just to clarify: When I started this discussion, I wasn't actually proposing one certain version of the template to use, I was merely wanting to know who was against the update and why. In any case, though, everyone who's commented since Gas posted his version seems to like it, so I'll go with it if there's no further complaints. One last question, is there any particular reason there's no seperate List of Sailor Moon characters article? Even for a series as popular as Sailor Moon, I seriously doubt that all (or even most) of the seperate character articles that currently exist would actually live through an AfD, or at least survive a cleanup by the animanga project (though, having not looked at them, I can't actually be sure of this). —Dinoguy1000 16:40, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Like I say, I'd be down with changing somehow as long as it looks nice; I like the second version more than the first.

As for the character articles themselves, yes, I've been eyeballing those for a while too. There are currently 14 seperate articles for the villain side alone, and they're pretty big, but I've noticed that most of the information contained in them is plot information, which is bad organization. If all that was removed, they'd mostly be too short, so I think we can easily merge into five or six--basically merging all the sub-groups into their proper commanding groups. The protagonist articles are mostly okay, and several are GAs, but those that aren't need to be brought up to speed. And then, once we've figured out what goes where, it should be a lot easier to make that master list. But, anyway. I plan to bring this all up for proper discussion some time next week, after the episode list and plot page merges being discussed just above have taken place. Don't want to spread ourselves too thin here. ^^ --Masamage ♫ 01:27, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

I have revisited the proposal, there are a few adjustments to the sorting of characters in the one below. I do not fully understand the naming of the story archs, eg: "R/Black Moon" R = Sailor Moon R; but "Black Moon"? That is not explained in the target article. Ideally, abbreviations should be written out in the template. G.A.S 05:43, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

The arc names need to go all together. Their proper names are Sailor Moon, Sailor Moon R, Sailor Moon S, Sailor Moon SuperS and Sailor Moon Stars. The arc names are fan creations. That is part of the current ongoing clean up to fix some of this stuff though. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 06:06, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Wrong. "Dark Kingdom," "Black Moon," "Infinity," "Dream," and "Stars" are the official names given in the manga for those story arcs, whereas the ones you listed are the official names for the anime only (except the last one, which is actually "Sailor Moon Sailor Stars"). They mostly appear as subtitles to each chapter (though in the case of the first one she didn't come up with it until the re-release), and sometimes she stops naming the chapters altogether, as in much of the Infinity arc. That this is the source of those titles is explained in each of the articles. --Masamage ♫ 15:59, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Such names do not appear in any of the English manga editions, nor do they apply automatically to the anime. By your own statements, people are using the chapter titles to create arc names, they are not actually named "Dark Kingdom arc" just a title of a chapter. So, again, we should use the official release names only. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 16:07, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Wrong again. The arc names, with the word "arc" after them, are used on the official website as well. (And of course they don't apply to the anime, but that goes both ways. They're two different sets of titles.) --Masamage ♫ 16:35, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

They still don't need to be used. They are not well known to English readers as they are not used anywhere in the English versions of the series. It just bloats the template. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 18:19, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Since it all appears on one line either way, bloating isn't really an issue. Neither is familiarity, in my opinion. However, I have just realized that since we will be renaming those articles to "List of...episodes" this weekend--starting tomorrow, in fact--it will not make sense to have manga names in the links. If we weren't doing so, I would still disagree with you, but I can't work up a lot of fire for a controversy that's going to become moot that quickly. Whatever we put down for the next 24 hours is fine with me. --Masamage ♫ 19:05, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Since this has turned into a content dispute, rather than a discussion on updating the template, I'll make the edit tomorrow with GAS's second proposed version unless someone else raises a valid objection. What should be used as the anchor text for certain links has no bearing on updating the template itself, and those changes can always be made later, so that's not a valid reason to hold off the update. —Dinoguy1000 18:39, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. I like the most recent one well enough. --Masamage ♫ 19:05, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

 Done - I just updated the template with Gas's second suggestion. Remember that this version isn't necessarily final, particularly when it comes to specific styles or link anchor text. —Dinoguy1000 18:17, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Is it permissible to have it start out exposed rather than hidden? It makes page navigation kind of annoying. :/ --Masamage ♫ 21:05, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

I belive so, but rather set it to auto (refer to {{navbox}}). The hidden option was set in order not to clutter up this page. G.A.S 21:24, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

In that case, that would be my bad, since I just copy-pasted without checking or thinking about it. I just got it fixed, by removing the state parameter altogether. —Dinoguy1000 22:19, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Auto? Does that mean its default state is controlled by user preferences? Because that would be pretty cool. :) --Masamage ♫ 22:51, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

That would be cool, but alas, auto just means that the navbox (and all other "collapsible" elements) would auto-collapse if more than a certain number (three IIRC) of "collapsible" elements are present on the same page. —Dinoguy1000 00:28, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I think auto means it remembers the state you had it in last from page to page and keeps it there. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 00:30, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

No, that would require a cookie, and cookies are evil (unless they're chocolate chip!). ^_~ I explain it in the message I left that caused your edit conflict. —Dinoguy1000 00:37, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Ahhh...that's why most of ours that are set to auto are usually closed :P -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 00:44, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Need help from a PGSM fan...

I have 5 more references to go on Tuxedo Mask. And of those only 3 are PGSM... Can someone pitch in an help out? Also I want to know if anyone is willing to torture themselves through the dub of the first series of Sailor Moon looking for the reference where Darien says he does Karate. (Or should we cheat and cut it?) I think I can find the final one on Hitoshi Doi. In general, could someone do a sweep through for plot overload, grammar, etc. I think we safely can see what this needs for GA after that point. Thank you!--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 23:10, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

I'll do the karate one; I think I know where it is. -- RattleMan 23:22, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Episode 12, An Unnatural Phenomenon.

Motoki: "Yeah? So you must be Raye, right? Serena says you're great at martial arts."

Rei: "Yeah. My grandpa's taught me a lot. It's a really great way to build up your confidence."

Motoki: "Yeah. Darien's always saying that. He wants me to join his karate club at the university."

Later...

Rei: "Oh. You know my name? I thought you might not remember. Are you coming back from martial arts class?"

Mamoru: "Yeah. I'm studying karate."

Is that all you needed for the karate one? -- RattleMan 23:27, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for going through the torture for me. Haha. I hope it wasn't painful. That leaves 3 references left! Yay! Alright, I put in the last PGSM references. Can someone do the last sweeps and then we can figure out what we need for an upgrade?--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 18:30, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

DAB confusion

Anyone who is good with disambiguation guidelines or with figuring out impossible communication, please come help out at Talk:Sailor Moon (disambiguation). --Masamage ♫ 07:02, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

I will have a look, but will only have time later. G.A.S 07:30, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

No hurry. :) Thanks. --Masamage ♫ 08:23, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

I have replied on 9 July 2008. Please comment? G.A.S 23:49, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I answered, and took a whack at your suggestions. Does it look better? Feel free to answer over there so we can keep this mostly in one place. --Masamage ♫ 00:42, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Achievements

These should be updated since some of the articles became downgraded...--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 15:39, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

But none of the articles listed there have been downgraded... --Masamage ♫ 16:15, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Any record of name discussion?

I can't find anything of the sort in the archives of the project or Sailor Moon, so I'll just ask. Was there ever any sort of discussion regarding using English names for the characters? Someone brought up on Princess Tutu that WP uses Usagi instead of Serena...looking again I see that there's a bit of talk at Sailor Moon (character), but nothing concrete outside of "consistency because some characters don't have English names, or were changed". Still, I'm curious on if there was ever actually any real discussion rather than most of the editors just keeping it that was though sheer numbers. ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ (talk) 11:15, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

The original English manga release uses "Bunny," however the anime is the more well known of the two releases, hence the names being used from it. In the unedited release of the series, her name is Usagi. Serena is only used in the edited dub of the series, not the full unedited release. When there is both a heavily edited/modified English release and an unedited one, we'll usually go with the names from the unedited. This is in keeping with the naming guidelines at WP:MOS-AM. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 14:29, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

One of the other big reasons is that some of the characters have one English name, some have multiple, and some have not been released in English. Sailor Uranus is one of the big weirds; she's been officially called Corinne (dolls), Haruka (books/manga), Alex (briefly in manga), and Amara (anime). Even if you pick just one source, the manga renames people sometimes, and in the anime Ami's last name has been both Anderson and Mizuno. Then there are things like the mistranslations in the Stars manga--do we really want to call the Galaxy Cauldron the Galaxy Cordon, just because that's the "official" English name? Rather than struggle with all these issues, inevitably ending up with a mismatch of whose character names are coming from where (because not everyone appears in every source), we stick with the Japanese for simplicity and sanity. --Masamage ♫ 20:52, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and yes, it's been discussed, but in weird places. Usually someone starts up the argument in a non-central location, so it's hard to keep track of. I thought there were some in the main article archives, far back; and I know there's one in the Sailor Jupiter archives, which is what led us to move articles to their Senshi names (Makoto Kino to Sailor Jupiter and so on). --Masamage ♫ 20:54, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Of course, if you want to get technical, Usagi's English manga name is still Serena with Bunny as a nickname...and the Anderson thing isn't concrete (the episode never actually says it's HER name, just that she's at the 'Anderson residence' -- and I believe this isn't the place she's later shown to live). But anyway, thanks. ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ (talk) 22:14, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Actually it is, since she originally picked up and said Mizuno Residence. But that point is moot in face of the primary subject here.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 16:18, 27 July 2008 (UTC)\

Really? Could have sworn she just says "Moshi-Moshi" in the original (sorry for getting more off topic, but the whole "Amy's last name is Anderson!" has always kinda bugged me since it's the ONLY last name used in the original dub). I alas don't have the DVDs any more to find out... ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ (talk) 17:05, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Reliable sources

Chiang, Jackie. "The Sailor Senshi Page: North American Dub" <-- This one I believe we can cut for all pages. If we reference the original dub in the line and talk about which episodes the person acted for, isn't that its own reference? i.e. the credits? We use such for other things like the comparisons and added lines, so it should work for the actors too. Is that wrong?

Also we need a replacement source for the musicals. I think the best source for that would be Japanese fan books on the musicals. Are there such things? Does anyone possess them? If that's so we can pretty much get around most of the problems with the sources.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 16:14, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Totally agree about that website, but I have no idea about the musicals. Always been my weakest area. :P --Masamage ♫ 01:54, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Eh? Japanese fan books on the musicals? I really doubt there are such things...what kind of sources do you need? If its cast and crew, most of them are in the program booklets. In fact, most a lot of info is in the Guide Videos or the program books.--Hanaichi 03:08, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

There are fan books for everything else. There are dedicated bikini photo books for seiyuu. I really wouldn't doubt anything. X) --Masamage ♫ 03:24, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Media franchises

Dear WikiProject Sailor Moon participants...WikiProject Media franchises needs some help from other projects which are similar. Media franchises' scope deals primarily with the coordination of articles within the hundreds if not thousands of media franchises which exist. Sometimes a franchise might just need color coordination of the various templates used; it could mean creating an article for the franchise as a jump off point for the children of it; or the creation of a new templating system for media franchise articles. The project primarily focuses on multimedia franchises. It would be great if some of this project's participants would come over and help the project get back on solid footing. Also, if you know of similar projects which have not received this, let Lady Aleena (talk · contribs) know. Please come and take a look at the project and see if you wish to lend a hand. You can sign up here if you wish. Thank you. LA @ 19:39, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Franchise naming convention discussion at WikiProject Media franchises

Dear WikiProject Sailor Moon participants...WikiProject Media franchises is currently discussing a naming convention for franchise articles. Since this may affect one or more articles in your project, we would like to get the opinions of all related projects before implimenting any sweeping changes. Please come and help us decide. Thanks! LA (T) @ 22:56, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Lead Images

I've been thinking about this and I wanted some feedback before I was Bold and did it. I was thinking of replacing lead images for ALL the Senshi with those from the main site. Since they use the same artwork as the new manga covers, we can steal ChibiChhibi off that to make her match too. The only problem with that is that Moon is shown in her Normal Uniform while everyone else is shown in their third form. Lego3400: The Sage of Time (talk) 22:00, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, maybe. The only problem is that the whole image balance of several of the articles is currently based on the lead image being from the anime. The manga/civilian images would have to be replaced too, and for most of the characters, the anime is where they're best known. So I'm not sure. --Masamage ♫ 15:56, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Fun trick

I just learned something neat that we could make good use of here! Any time you link to an article that has a parenthetical at the end of it--say Sailor Moon (character) or Shitennou (Sailor Moon)--you can make a link by just typing a single pipe character after the parenthesis, and it'll automatically just show the main term as your link.

That means that instead of typing [[Sailor Moon (character)|Sailor Moon]], you can just type [[Sailor Moon (character)|]] and it will show up like this: Sailor Moon.

Pretty cool stuff. We don't need to replace any of our current links, of course, but this saves some effort in the future. --Masamage ♫ 16:02, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Tuxedo Mask Article

According to GAS we are missing only three things before we can make Tuxedo Mask grade B... Two of which I don't specialize in. Could someone look over the article and see if they can fix the problems listed? Thank you. Then we can ask for a peer review to see what we need for GA. I'll try to do something about Chibiusa's article too.

Oh and on the project-wide scale, Episode # won't cut it as a reference. We have to specify where it comes from. So Anime Episode... I think is easiest. It might be a good idea to do a preemptive and add this to all appropriate references. (It's even on the Sailor Mercury article.)--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 21:07, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

There is a {{cite episode}} template - I tried to figure out how to use it ages ago, but it defeated me. -Malkinann (talk) 22:23, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Just to note, as the manga is the primary work, the article should focus first on Tuxedo Mask from the manga, with sources primarily from there. The anime should supplement that. In both cases yes, referencing should be done using {{cite book}} and {{cite episode}}. If anyone needs help with either, I'm well versed in both. I'd also recommend looking at some current GA character articles to see how to deal with format, content, and balancing plot/real and avoid in-universe writing. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 23:11, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Can you please help me format an episode reference from both the Japanese version and the dub? WP:SM's reference resource provides examples, painstakingly formatted by Hitsuji Kinno, of using cite book to cite the manga, but having example citations for episodes would be very helpful (and yes, sometimes we do cite the dub). -Malkinann (talk) 23:26, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Sure, though its better to site the uncut English releases, when possible, instead of the original as there is less chance of questioning the translation. I had to cite the dub a few times in List of Tokyo Mew Mew characters as well, but its all similar, just changing one or two fields. :) -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 16:08, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

I think you misunderstand my intention of dub-citing - we need to cite it when we say things about the dub. The way you've cited the episodes in the list of TMM characters seems fairly simple, compared to my proposed example/question (which never got any attention *sob*). -Malkinann (talk) 21:25, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

No, didn't misunderstand at all. And yes, for anime episode citing, it is that simple :P You don't need to go overboard with it, like adding the credits, et al. Here is your example, switched to use the English episode (unless you understand a lot of Japanese, I'm guessing you watched the uncut ones :P and if I guess wrong, I have some Japanese sources that need translating LOL).

{{cite episode | title = Crybaby Usagi's Magnificent Transformation | series = Sailor Moon | serieslink = Sailor Moon | number=1 }}

gives "Crybaby Usagi's Magnificent Transformation". Sailor Moon. Episode 1. {{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter |serieslink= ignored (|series-link= suggested) (help)

and really, that is all you need. Now, because the dub and sub are both under the same name, to differentiate you can add "|language=English (dubbed)" and "|language=English (subtitled)", as necessary, and of course use the appropriate title. Now, looking at how it was done in List of Naruto characters (featured list) another possible option that I think would work well here is:

{{cite episode |title=Crybaby Usagi's Magnificent Transformation |number=220 |series=Sailor Moon |credits=ADV Films |language=English (subtitled)}}

for ADV Films. "Crybaby Usagi's Magnificent Transformation". Sailor Moon. Episode 220 (in English (subtitled)).{{cite episode}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

and {{cite episode |title=A Moon Star Is Born |number=220 |series=Sailor Moon |credits=DiC |language=English (dubbed)}}

for DiC. "A Moon Star Is Born". Sailor Moon. Episode 220 (in English (dubbed)).{{cite episode}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

Thoughts? (and random side note...why do none of the episode lists nor the main page mention the uncut English releases at all beyond an easy to miss note on the source of the titles? -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 01:09, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

So, if I wanted to add a link to the lists of episodes pages, I'd use the episode link parameter? WP:CITET recommends the use of the airdate, but that might be assuming that one watched the show in its original airing? Also, why doesn't the 'language' parameter work for me? -Malkinann (talk) 23:02, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

{{cite episode | title = Raye's Day in the Spotlight | episodelink = List of Sailor Moon R episodes | series = Sailor Moon R | airdate = 1995-12-01 | number = 60 |credits=[[DiC]] |language=English (dubbed)}}

DiC (1995-12-01). "Raye's Day in the Spotlight". Sailor Moon R. Episode 60 (in English (dubbed)). {{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter |episodelink= ignored (|episode-link= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

Yes, on the episode link. Also, I forgot to put in serieslink=Sailor Moon. You can add the airdate, but only for the dubs since the uncuts didn't air in English. For the language param it would appear the template doesn't have one. How odd...~starts discussion to fix that~ -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 23:21, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Rawr, I've been meaning to rewrite the prose in that article for literal years. I'll set aside some time for it in the next few days. --Masamage ♫ 16:04, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

We can add the cite episode template for each episode to the references project page... Whatcha think? 'cause like the manga, even as a somewhat fanatical fan, I can't remember airing times that well... and I'm kind of lazy to have to plug it each time... Make it also easier to do sweeps through the articles since we have to do this project-wide.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 18:49, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

GAH! Tell us first!

Someone merged our unique section stub template (Which btw, was up to standard, just an image color and word swap) into the main one without telling us. We had a vote on that and we managed to hang onto it. The culprit is User:Rich Farmbrough Lego3400: The Sage of Time (talk) 03:59, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

"Culprit"? Lego, please assume good faith... -Malkinann (talk) 04:04, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

As it is, the Sailor Moon section stub template looks unprofessional (wording-wise), does not incorporate a |date= parameter for transparency in the process, and is quite possibly beyond our project's abilities to maintain in step with the main {{sect-stub}}. I therefore agree with the merge of the template into {{sect-stub}}, and would like to see it return to that. -Malkinann (talk) 04:31, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Agree, per the "unprofessional" reason. -- RattleMan 05:13, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

He brought it up on the talk page. And I agree with eliminating the template, too. --Masamage ♫ 15:58, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

References

Isn't it no space before the reference? So.. He is Yaddayadda.[#] instead of He is Yaddayadda. [#] 'cause it looks like someone or a very efficient bot managed to put spaces in the Tuxedo Mask article before each of the references... Just double checking before I try to fix it. I wish people would read before changing that sort of thing.

Oh and for project-wide thing, we can't have paragraphs with only 2 sentences. They have to be 3+. Keep an eye on this so our articles don't get downgraded from GA.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 19:44, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

NM to the first. Whatever put them in just took them out. O.o;; I wonder if I'm going blind sometimes.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 20:16, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Yep, references come immediately after punctuation - not before, and there are no spaces between the punctuation and the ref. —Dinoguy1000 21:52, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to put this one up to the project since this effects all of our pages. The Tuxedo Mask review explicitly said we can't use "Episode #" for a reference. I currently am working on fixing this headache for the references section, however this also means in-line citations. In-line citation such as He appeared in Episode # doing this and this... The question would be, what should we call it? Should it be Anime episode? Original Anime Episode? Japanese Episode? Japanese Anime Episode? The thing is those are all wordy, but we also have PGSM to deal with (and make references for), and the dubbed, so we need to agree on an in-line citation thats intuitive for the first reader. Any ideas? Or should we rely on context and strengthen the context around those mentions?--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 04:45, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

I think we should reword those so that any reference doesn't appear in the sentences themselves at all. Seems like the easiest way. Also, I don't think it's really necessary to go through and make the whole list of citable episodes ahead of time--that's gonna take so long, and it's not that hard to just look up all the info! It's in our list, after all. --Masamage ♫ 04:55, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

(edit conflict) You should be using {{cite episode}} (as noted above and as has been done with a few of the episode cites), not just writing Episode X. That will take care of the entire issue. For which eps, unless you're specifically referencing something very specifically Japanese, it should be using the English uncut episode English titles. The manga references also need to be fixed to properly use {{cite book}} and to cite specific volumes, including ISBNs, and page numbers. Also, even if you state in the sentence "in episode x" you still need an actual inline cite as well. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 04:56, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Collectonian, I think you misunderstand. It would be in-text. I'll give a real-life example. This is from the Tuxedo Mask article:

Once they became a couple, they became deeply devoted to each other and their love survives many trials. In the manga, they briefly show jealousy in Volume 8, Act 25. Also in the anime they break up in Episode 61, but get back together in Episode 77 when King Endymion sent nightmares to Mamoru making him believe if he stayed with Usagi, she would die.

If we move to do as Masamage says, that means that project-wide we'd have to also change all of the other references. So it would look like:

Once they became a couple, they became deeply devoted to each other and their love survives many trials. In the manga, they briefly show jealousy. Also in the anime they break up, but get back together when King Endymion sent nightmares to Mamoru making him believe if he stayed with Usagi, she would die.

Look at some of the other GA character articles. I believe it does mention at points that at X point in the manga or Y in the anime. However, you still must ALSO have an in-line citation, regardless of whether the line specifically says it was episode X or Y. We should also be careful about in-universe style writing. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 13:28, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Instead of what is above. I asked earlier in the project if we should keep our references a mix of in-line and also at the bottom or if we should try to put them all into the references section. This will probably be a headache for the project. (All the GA articles will have to convert too... and we'll have to decide how to deal with multiple episodes and side note issues... Like 91 for one citation doesn't need the note, but the other one does. --;;)

Oh and I already started on the episode list references. Just because technically to have a proper reference it should have *air date* and *episode number* Plus a bunch of other random stuff I can't remember off the top of my head. If you don't want it in-project then I'll move it to my userpage. I'm about half way done... Just to show off, the proper reference for episode 1, should look like:

<ref name="jnepisode1">{{cite episode |title=Crybaby Usagi's Magnificent Transformation |series= Sailor Moon |serieslink= Sailor Moon |network=Toei |station=Asahi |city=Tokyo |airdate=March 7, 1992 |seriesno=1 |number=1}}</ref>

I properly formatted 60+ of them and I have the others almost done. I used some cheats with an HTML editor to make it faster. I hate repetitive tasks when copy-paste will do the job just fine. The lazy way is sometimes easier to maintain quality for. Also people won't remember that Japan doesn't have seasons nor know about it. They will blithely go on and put in seasons. I also went to the trouble of making the name tags ahead of time. They are already a pain in the butt to keep track of... so I figure I could make it easier and do the leg work for everyone else... I also plugged them into the Tuxedo Mask article which needs a sweep for the citations for the PGSM episodes, but it should be ready for an upgrade to B after one last quick sweep by someone other than me. (This is a broad hint).

If you do plan to not keep them on the references section of the project page, seriously, I'll keep the list for myself. =P Because I've put in that much work already. I plan to finish the list so I can plug and play with the Chibiusa article. I'll try to make the conversion over easier for the project, but I ain't sweeping through those few thousand references to make sure the citations are all plugged in... Other people have the power of copy-paste too! I'll selfishly work on the ignored characters and the manga... ^_^--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 07:17, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

If you can define exactly what you want this can probably be done by bot or semi-bot. For example if all occurrences of the phrase "episode 1" in a certain category of articles should have <ref name="jnepisode1" /> after them, except the first which should have <ref name="jnepisode1">{{cite episode |title=Crybaby Usagi's Magnificent Transformation |series= Sailor Moon |serieslink= Sailor Moon |network=Toei |station=Asahi |city=Tokyo |airdate=March 7, 1992 |seriesno=1 |number=1}}</ref> , then that would be simple to do. Rich Farmbrough, 07:36 29 August 2008 (GMT).

Not that simple, the prose has to be changed around it too. That's the pain of it.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 14:32, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

(<--) Re ref parameters: I do not think that network=Toei |station=Asahi |city=Tokyo |airdate=March 7, 1992 |seriesno=1 | is needed as the show is repeating on multiple networks, is available on multiple formats, and the relevant article should explain this. However, |accessdate= is crucial, as it helps find the date the citation was added/verified. G.A.S 07:25, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

{{cite episode | title = | episodelink = | url = | series = | serieslink = | credits = | network = | station = | city = | airdate = | began = | ended = | season = | seriesno = | number = | minutes = | transcript = | transcripturl= }}

Access date? There is none in the template unless I'm blind (I copy-pasted it here). ^^;; Confusing comment that we need access dates (That's for websites... isn't it?). Also since the episodes are in series 1-5, I think we would have to keep it. I also believe since there is PGSM to contend with and a second airing date of the anime in Japan, the air date needs to be clarified. *shrugs* It won't hurt in the least... Plus there is a DVD release... So that also has to be clarified. Was it from DVD, original Japanese released later, from the television, etc or the subtitle version ADV/Geneon(pioneer)? I can understand Japanese, so I usually translate it straight out when possible. Sailor Moon has a chronic problem of too many versions... It may be cruel, but I'm slightly advocating the original Japanese being translated with this citation format. Won't hurt in the least.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 21:46, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

SeriesNo is not anything any of our articles should ever be using. It does not mean "which series out of series 1-5." It is the British equivalent of "Season" (as in the UK, they use series for season). And you are correct, there is no accessdate and it shouldn't be used. By various discussions, accessdate should primarily be used only for web sources. Other than that, I agree with G.A.S. We should be using the uncut DVD release, except for Stars. There is absolutely no need to clarify air date, nor the network, station, or city. You want to clarify which season, do it in the series name by using its full name, e.g. Sailor Moon, Sailor Moon R, etc etc. PGSM is a different medium all together, and unlikely to be confused by anyone, but it can always be clarified with a parenthetical, in addition to the different series link. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 00:30, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

That all sounds excellent to me. --Masamage ♫ 00:43, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

No accessdate? I must be losing it (I had too slow a connection at the time, and could not verify it) ;) Further than that, per Collectonian. G.A.S 05:21, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Actually, in Japan there are no "seasons" there are series. Seasons is actually a US notion... so it's incorrect to call them seasons, when they are series. I think following the Japanese airing rules is more important, just like when we talk about British airing habits we call them series, so should the Japanese airing habits be called series. Britain isn't the only country that uses series. Generally, it's not be *what* it's called, but there are defined rules for what is termed "seasons" and what is called "series" in broadcasting terms. (BTW, the template instructions said to input a number for the season... so I followed template rules... it didn't advocate calling it by specialized names. In fact it says seriesno... so I put in the number...)

There is a difference between *need* and *hurts* the article. Nothing on wikipedia argues that it will hurt the article or such things aren't allowed. It's going into a copy-paste mode anyhow... no one is going to remember all 200 episode titles in one go... and be able to format each episode citation properly...

Besides which the "uncut" subtitles often have sucky grammar, sucky translations, bad context references, bad spelling for the character names, and so on. So I'd like the power to reference the raw version when possible over the subtitled version, which often makes mistakes that make me cringe. (Especially on the ADV... there were times when I was just listening to it, looked at the screen and went O.o;;) I'm not advocating fan subs... just pointing out that wikipedia allows for in-project translations. There is no supportive reason in wikipedia to cite the DVD box sets, is there? Is there a set rule?

I also believe that citation of air dates will have to be done because there *was* a second airing of Sailor Moon Anime (Which according to MLA style argues for air dates. Which wikipedia is emulating for citations. Yay for MLA. I read the handbook for class.). And there *is* a Japanese DVD release of Sailor Moon. And release dates of DVD sets would have to coincide with the airing dates... by the rules of the MLA style. Is there a specific rule in the wikipedia MOS that says we must support US companies or mention them in the citations? Wikipedia seems to be headed for more detailed citations anyhow (My prediction). So if they push for inclusion of these things later, it'll be a sucky few weekends sorting it out. If it doesn't hurt the articles, then leave it in. I'm doing the episode citation list anyhow for copy-paste. I did it also for the Furuya Tohru interview citation and no one balked at the idea I listed Tokyo, the air time, etc... to not list it, kind of seems in-universe thinking to me. *shrugs*

Either way I can't see an argument for how this will hurt the articles. (Pull an MOS quote please!) It's all copy-paste anyhow. It's copy-paste for the manga. Copy-paste for most of the websites and copy-paste for the outside references. And I'm doing the work to do the copy-paste citations anyhow... --;; Already half done. <-- not taking it personal, just hate wasted work and I come from academic thinking.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 20:44, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Note: All 200 episodes of the original series is up. (With mini guide--feel free to edit the mini guide) Please plug in the references to the various episodes on all articles at will. This will prevent a drop in grades... Yay for the invention of copy-paste. I'll be working on the dub and PGSM next. I have a request for the musicals' information to also be put up from legit sources!--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 21:59, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

You forgot to put in the episode link as being to the five different episode lists. :( That'd be more helpful than having the series link back to Sailor Moon. -Malkinann (talk) 05:22, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

I'll fix it since I know what a pain it is... ^^;;--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 17:27, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Heads up on Naoko Takeuchi

I'm going to propose solving the picture problem...I have a few options--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 16:02, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Finishing touches on Tuxedo Mask

This relates project-wide since these two references we would need for the other pages. It's a question of citing them.

In DiC's first promo for the dub, he was referred to as "The Masked Tuxedo".[citation needed] A preliminary dub name for Mamoru, that appeared on Kodansha's English website in an advertisement for the series, was said to be Mark.[citation needed]

I need the citations for these two. Now, I know that the first one aired originally at a convention. So I'm not sure how to cite that one. And the other one I'm not sure how to track down. Anyone have a clue?--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 17:29, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

I have the DiC promotional video and they definitely call him that, but I'm not a reliable source. o_O The second one comes from Ken Aromdee, so same problem. --Masamage ♫ 23:17, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Isn't the original convention citable? Or the video tape itself in some fashion. We know who created it, and the approximate air date... so is there anything else we need? As for the Kodansha site, I can't find a trace of it anywhere anymore. Anyone have the archive link or something?--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 05:56, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

I think you're on to something with citing the convention or the tape, but I don't have a clue otherwise. It doesn't have an air date, and the only recordings are copyright violations, so it might run into trouble with verifiability. Maybe there's somewhere we could ask? As for the Kodansha thing, Ken himself has edited here sometimes, so perhaps we could ask him. --Masamage ♫ 04:55, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, worse comes to worse, they call up Dic, which BTW, is getting bought I heard... or something of that sort (seems like the bad luck in American Sailor Moon companies doesn't stop... Sailor Moon must have punished them. ^.~). Isn't listing the company that made it verifiable enough? I've done that with Tokyopop... We list the company who made it, i.e. Dic and since they are the ones that aired it, they can admit to it fine, so that should be enough. How easy it is to verify isn't in the wikipedia standards, is it? DiC has a website and phone number on their site.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 06:09, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

I think you're probably right; we should just ask around, is all, because I don't understand it entirely. I've never been sure to what extent things have to be easy to verify, just that it has to be possible For example, I don't think you can cite a document of which you own the only copy, even if it's legit. Obviously this isn't that extreme, but if no legal copy exists... I dunno. We could try the Reliable Sources Noticeboard. --Masamage ♫ 06:45, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

I asked someone for their source. They claimed it aired on television. If it aired on television then it's definitely verifiable. I'm asking them for the stations, for now, I'll edit the reference in with DiC and say it was a promotional video. When we have this settled, I'll add it to the list of resources. I have no idea on Kodansha though... I guess we can drop a message for Ken asking for the old URL.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 22:57, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Yay! Tuxedo Mask is up to a B grade! ^_^ After all the work we've done I think we should congratulate ourselves.. and work harder to make it a GA. Also implement the citation issues for the other articles to protect their current statuses.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 15:32, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

2008 thesis found - help?

I've found a thesis (published in 2008!) that uses Sailor Moon as an example series for looking at feminist ideas in manga. (Mainly romance and independence). From what I've read so far, it seems to look at Minako, Usagi, Haruka, Michiru and Mamoru in something beyond just passing mentions (given that Sailor Moon is one out of nine series in the study). Can someone else please help me to incorporate the thesis in our articles? -Malkinann (talk) 10:27, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

I believe it has to be cited in other places for it to be counted as a reliable source. However, we probably could use the reference list she has.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 15:11, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Its a thesis, and can not be considered a reliable source unless it actually was published as a book or peer reviewed (not just the review for graduation). -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 15:52, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

List of Sailor Moon Episodes

I propose we change the Sailor Moon Episodes to this format: List_of_YuYu_Hakusho_episodes_(season_1) which is much easier to read, has FA status, unlike our articles, and there is much less confusion overall. What do you think? (Besides, it's like a Brother production. ^.~)--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 15:11, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

The Sailor Moon episodes lists already follow that format. YYH doesn't have multiple English versions like SM does. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 15:51, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Actually it doesn't. The YuuYuu Hakusho format is "dub" first line, second line English translated title//romanized title (Japanese title)

As seen here: "Kuwabara: A Promise Between Men"

"Kuwabara in a Corner! A Man's Oath // Oitsumerareta Kuwabara! Otoko no Chikai" (追いつめられた桑原! 男の誓い) for episode 3.

Currently, the Sailor Moon episodes are confusing to read, because this is what follows.

Episode number of ORIGINAl, Episode number of dub, then DUB title (which is totally weird), then SUB title. then romaja title. Japanese title, Japanese airdate and then Dub air date.

It's a confusing table to read because sub comes after dub, but it makes it look like the dub title is the sub title because there is no separation. That format as follows:

1 1 "A Moon Star Is Born" / "Crybaby Usagi's Magnificent Transformation"

"Nakimushi Usagi no karei naru henshin" (泣き虫うさぎの華麗なる変身) March 7, 1992 September 11, 1995

The Yuu Yuu Hakusho table is far easier to read. You argue they don't have multiple formats to deal with, but if you look at their table they do. It's just their table deals with the problem better.

My reformatting proposal would be like this for the given Sailor Moon entry....

1 1 "A Moon Star Is Born"

"Crybaby Usagi's Magnificent Transformation // Nakimushi Usagi no karei naru henshin" (泣き虫うさぎの華麗なる変身) March 7, 1992 September 11, 1995

Which, when plugged in is much, much easier to read. If I remember right, Wikipedia is made for people who don't know anything about the series, from a nonseries POV, I would think that "A Moon Star is Born" is the original Japanese title translation, considering table order. It goes against AMP guidelines to put the dub first. The sub may have been released second, but the Japanese titles came first.

So it's basically moving the sub title down one line... making the table easier to read. Which is different from the current. Make sense?

--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 02:53, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Except that is completely incorrect. First, "A Moon Star is Born" is NOT the original Japanese title translation, it is the official English subtitled version title. And there is a separation between the two versions. And no, I'm not wrong. YYH has only one English title rather than two. Hence it appearing like most of our episodes lists (as does the Stars list as it was never subbed nor dubbed, and it is the only list to use translations rather than official titles). Both lists are using the exact same template to produce both lists. If we are going to actually compare like to like, then List of Bleach episodes (season 1) (also FL) would be a more appropriate comparison, as it also has both a dubbed and a subbed title, but in that case, it isn't done with every episode, so the format there makes more sense. Only for a very few episodes does the title change, so it isn't putting either version first, just noting the dub change second.

It does not go against the AMP guidelines to but the dub first. The dub was the first English release, so its title goes first in the list specifically about the episodes. Emphasizing the dub over the rest for the whole set of articles would be against the guidelines, but this is just putting them in a neutral order by release. Its the same with air dates. If it airs in England or Canada or somewhere else in English first, then that should be the first airdates listed, not just the North American ones. Then the official English sub title (not the Japanese title), with the Japanese title last. This is the English Wikipedia, so the English always comes first. The current format is fully appropriate and completely within guidelines. Your version would be against NPOV as it puts the disliked dub behind the fan preferred English, instead of acknowledging the dub was first. It also goes against established guidelines, as is shown in every other existing list with a similar issue of differing dub and sub titles. In the end, this isn't the place to discuss this anyway. If you feel the episode lists for ALL series that have both a dubbed and subbed version should be changed, it should be taken up at the AMP MoS talk page, not here. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 03:16, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Another good example might be List of One Piece episodes, which has been licensed by two different companies for English dubbing and distribution: first by 4Kids, who massacred the first 104 episodes, and then by FUNi, who proceeded to re-dub and release everything uncut. The episode list covers both versions, with the 4K version listed first, and no comment whatsoever on how hated it is. —Dinoguy1000 16:10, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

BTW, Dino.. that page doesn't have FA status.

Collectonian, I think I didn't make myself clear enough ^^;;. I'm saying in the current format that we have it *right now* It's confusing the read the table. As it is *right now* if I were an outsider and I were reading the table as it is *right now* I would currently think that "A Moon Star is Born" is the Japanese title, but as you pointed out *it's not*. I'm saying as the table stands *right now* It's screwed up!! It's very hard to read, so I'm proposing rearranging it to the format of Yuu Yuu Hakusho, which, BTW, *Does* have multiple English title formats. And ironically you chose another page with *the exact same format* But as the Sailor Moon tables stand *right now* it's confusing as hell as to which is which because of the column table order. So I'm proposing that the Sailor Moon Episode tables as they are *right now* need to be fixed. BTW, emphasis isn't for affect... it's for clarification.... ^^;; List_of_Sailor_Moon_episodes_(season_1) If you look at that page with cold eyes, you will see that Japanese comes first in every instance across the table. Thus to an uneducated eye who does not know Japanese, it would be easy to think that the dub title is the actual translation of the Japanese title. ^^;; I hope that's more clear.

So I'm proposing that the table be put in line with the other FA tables and make it easier to read said table, so you know which one is the sub title and which one is the dub title by glancing at it. I hope that's clearer.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 03:16, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

I know it doesn't I was just pointing it out as another possible example article. ;) —Dinoguy1000 18:46, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Hitsuji, did you want to go and bring this up at the peer review page as well? -Malkinann (talk) 20:36, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

It really should be brought up at the Anime and manga MoS. If Hitsuji feels the way dub/sub lists are handled, that is the place to do it as it is a project-wide issue, not something specific just to Sailor Moon. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 20:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

I wonder if we're looking at the same page? O.o;;; I'll try to do an example reformat so you can see what I'm talking about! and then show the current format. Because what you have shown, i.e. List of Bleach episodes (season 1) DOES NOT match the Sailor Moon Episode format seen here: List_of_Sailor_Moon_episodes_(season_1) If you substituted line for line place for place the Sailor Moon episode formatting for the Bleach episode formatting it would not match!! It's just a matter of moving the subtitle line to the Japanese romaji line... *just* like Bleach has it. That's it. That's all I'm proposing for the sole reason that it's easier to read which title belongs where. 'cause the Sailor Moon table format is *not* the same as the Bleach table format, so I'd like them to *exactly* match. I think if I actually did it to the page you wouldn't object. O.o;;--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 22:47, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I would, because it goes against the established formats of other lists where it is done for all eps. It works for Bleach because its only a handful of episodes. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 22:55, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hitsuji_Kinno/Sailor_Moon_episode_list/ It simply would look like that. And it works. Easy to understand, straight forward (First 20 episodes). And there is no confusion. The idea is to make the table intuitive to read. That's it. --Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 23:02, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

As you have now taken this to the Anime and manga project (without bothering to note this discussion here), let's keep the discussion over there. And sorry, but your version is no different/better than the existing format at all. You just cram one of the English titles down with the Japanese instead of keeping them emphasized equally together.-- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 02:14, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Crossplay photo

A crossplay photo of four men in Sailor Senshi uniforms, posing like the DBZ Ginyu Force.

Look what I found over at crossplay (cosplay)... hehehe... It's a pity we don't have any RS information about people cosplaying as Sailor Senshi, otherwise we could use it in the article space... ^_^* At least their skirts seem to be longer than the girls'... -Malkinann (talk) 10:58, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Men dressed like Sailor Senshi? I call that blasphemous. >:( --  Denelson83  12:07, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

My eyes......ouch....what happened to the rule where only girls can become Sailor Senshi!? Oh and these people are in a Dragon Ball pose no less...--Hanaichi 13:20, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Names

Just curious--how is Queen Metaria's name romanized in the subtitled anime? We got Metaria from the Romaji in the rereleased manga, but for consistency we should probably match the subs whenever we can. Anyone know?

Also, I've mentioned this elsewhere and gotten no opposition, but it's big-ish, so here it is again: also because of the subs, I think we should stop using the names Ail and Ann and switch to Ali and En. They're not perfectly accurate, but they are official, and what we're using now is fan stuff. So that would affect the list of minor characters as well as the SMR episode list. Let me know if this bothers anyone. --Masamage ♫ 20:40, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Agreed on Ali and En. What episode does Metaria first appear in and is named? -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 20:43, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Internet sez: she appears in episode 25 but isn't named until episode 35.[2] --Masamage ♫ 20:45, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Okay, ep check complete. The subs use Metalia. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 20:54, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Hooray! I'm happy to hear that, because it makes the pun a lot more obvious. I propose switching to that, too. --Masamage ♫ 20:56, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Metaria wasn't romaji, it was actually used in English. I see no point in switching unless we're up for "correcting" other article to the ADV subs, which did in fact make several errors that we are not including (i.e. "Makaiju" is being used over "Doom Tree" despite the subs using the latter) Rebochan (talk) 22:33, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm a little confused, so it might help to clarify that I mean the Japanese manga. It used English letters--ie, the Roman alphabet--but since it's a Japanese publication, I used the term Romaji. And yeah, unfortunately, I think that if we want to keep justifying using the other original names (Usagi and so forth) by saying that they're from the subtitled DVDs, we need to take our other stuff from the DVDs as well. That'll mean a few small annoying things, but on the whole I think it'd make everything much, much cleaner (and avoid future arguments about what names are coming from what sources). (Anyway, "doom tree" for "hell tree" isn't exact, but it's also not that bad, considering "doom" comes from a word for "judgment.") --Masamage ♫ 02:55, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Chapter titles?

The titles on List of Sailor Moon chapters are a little wonky. The translations being used are inaccurate, nor do they even match the official Tokyopop-released titles. When we edit that, should we be using both a translated title and the English title, or just one? --Masamage ♫ 21:51, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

In all other chapter lists, we've done Official English with kanji and romaji, no secondary translations.-- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 23:02, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

'Kay. I am a little concerned about some of those, though--for instance, since we're using "Usagi" and "Makoto" and so on all over the rest of the wiki, it seems extremely confusing to suddenly have "Bunny" and "Lita" in the titles. Some of the actual translations are weird, too. Would it be possible, do you think, to do something new that better suits this particular series? For instance, there's already a "Japanese" half and an "English" half to the table, but where the Japanese side has chapter titles, the English side lists who's on the cover. That seems like useless information to me--can we leave it out, or at least move it someplace else? --Masamage ♫ 01:51, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

The lead should note the name changes made to the characters, and while its odd, they are still the official titles (and was something of the norm for TP back then). I mean, we could add a lit. translation but it would really expand out the chapter list and I'm not sure how much extra information it would add. With Tokyo Mew Mew, it was a little easier since the initial chapters were unnumbered and TP added names to them, often grouping several under one name. However, if you check the notes, you'll see I also had to deal with name funkiness, as TP changed the spellings after the first volume :-P This one might be a good question for the Anime project in general to get some ideas on a way to convey the information while still ensuring the list is primed for going up for FL. For the cover characters, listing both the Japanese and English is fine, as its been done on others where cover changes were made (see List of Kare Kano chapters and List of D.N.Angel chapters for two ways of handling the cover character changes). -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 02:26, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Hrmrmrm. Yeah, I guess I'll bring it up at the anime project. Luckily, there are no changes to the cover characters in English; only one was changed at all, and it was Sailor Moon to another picture of Sailor Moon. Still, though, why does anyone care who was on the cover? Why do we list that? --Masamage ♫ 03:13, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

I think it was done primarily as a compromise/alternative to having individual cover images (which would be against WP:NONFREE). -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 03:21, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Ah, I see. To be honest, that doesn't make me feel very compelled to keep it, considering the space could be used for something else. X) But I'll ask around. --Masamage ♫ 03:29, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

I think you'd find it would be pretty much required to get to featured status, as all of the chapter FLs have it, and its never been questioned as being part of the appropriate info for a chapter list. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 03:32, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

I've fixed all the small mistakes, so now they exactly match the 1st printings of the official Tokyopop-released titles. Only two words were different and I made the punctuation match.Grapeofdeath (talk) 06:10, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. Is "Mugen" really translated as "eternity" instead of "infinity"? Yuck. >_> --Masamage ♫ 08:14, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

It also means Infinity... Japanese words are not so concise as English words. They have a variety of meanings depending on the situation. (Japanese is context-reliant as a language... which makes our lives hell for citation purposes because literal translations lose a lot.) I think it's *intended* as Infinity, rather than eternity (which is better described with another Japanese word...) Considering the Infinity Collection... But believe me, working at Tokyopop a lot of the translators simply didn't care much. *cough* But I won't talk about that...--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 16:42, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Chibiusa

I fixed the references. I just need someone to look it over before we nominate it for B class.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 18:05, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Random

There was a rumor that Takeuchi-sensei hated the episode in Season 2 with the dinosaur which is why it wasn't released in the United States on the DVD box set... but the picture volume contradicts this statement...

"When I saw a CG-animated dinosaur standing in front of a huge blue moon background, I thought it was really cool! I drew this thinking a blue moon could be nice. When we were laying out this picture, Osabu and I studied one thing. That was 'kenzan' read as 'genzan'. This was used when the title page had the phrase, "See all the sailor soldiers here."

Picture Volume 3... if she hated it that much... would she have been inspired to draw a picture using one of the motifs and talk about it? It's not congruous...--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 04:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Item Headache

Right, so the manga calls the items one thing, the anime calls them another, the dub calls them another and then the toy boxes tend to call them another. >.<;; The official website even lists items and gives them names (Some items it counts and we don't... which may be worth noting). Anyone have proposals on how to deal with this mess left behind by all these people?--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 08:50, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm. This suggestion could cause more headaches, but what about a table that lists each item name and the different versions? It would be a lot easier to read that way, in my opinion. --UsagiEriko (talk) 11:50, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

How? Very, very carefully, of course. =) The names given to the items in the English version of them manga (hoping hoping hoping that the manga doesn't make a habit of using multiple names/translations/transliterations/whatevers for the same item) should take precedent, except where a different media form is being explicitly discussed (like a list of episodes). In all cases, all alternate forms need to be listed as well. Grumbling at everyone responsible for the mess is optional, of course. ;P 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 21:02, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

The character names we're using are from the subtitled anime, which was chosen (I think) because it is the only English version that is uncut and tries 100% of the time to be accurate. Presumably we should use the sub names for items as well, where available. When they're not, switch to the English manga. Alternate names can be given in footnotes, as is done with attack names. --Masamage ♫ 06:18, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Naming tweaks

I'm going to be working on updating the names we use to match the official subs, wherever possible, so we can have better consistency. Keep an eye on the listings on the main project page. I'll be starting with Talk:Dark Kingdom#Metaria->Metalia. --Masamage ♫ 22:12, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

The chibis

It occurs to me that, since we're using the Japanese names based on those being the ones used in the licensed subtitles of the series, I should ask: do the subs use Chibiusa or Chibi Usa or what? 'Cause we should probably use whatever it does.

I've also come to think that the name ChibiChibi looks weird with no space in it. What does the English manga, the only licensed thing with that character in it, do? Space or no?

I'd check myself, but I don't own either of these things. :) --Masamage ♫ 00:37, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Can't check ChibiChibi (to my great sorrow), but for the first, the subbed Sailor Moon S DVDs use Chibiusa for her regular name (AKA Small Lady), and Chibi Moon when transformed. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 00:42, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Volume 11 of the original manga uses "Chibiusa" and other merchandise too. Since we are using "Usagi" and so on, I think we have to follow suit... If we want to go into official names, it'll be a grand old mess. So let's stick to "Chibiusa." and "Chibichibi" I'm for consistency. Besides, there is a great pun in "Chibichibi" ^_^ To last. ^_^ At least we have verification for "Rini" since it was used by the VA. To be a pain in the butt--there are no plurals in Japanese. But I know that you know that Masamage. You can chase me down now. ^.~--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 02:23, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry to butt in. I'm new to this and all, but this is interesting to me. In my collection of the anime, the subtitles use Chibi-usa, Chibi-Moon and Chibi-chibi. The hyphens are used. --UsagiEriko (talk) 21:54, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Comments are welcome! ^_^ But, hmm, that's an interesting discrepancy. Are you working from a fansub? --Masamage ♫ 08:11, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

No. I have official copies of the DVDs. (As far as I know, anyway. :P) I am 100% sure about the hyphens with the names.*edited to add* That brings up the question, though...what if there are different official versions of the anime? :/--UsagiEriko (talk) 23:26, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

I have no idea what we'd do--probably go with the first one to have been released. Luckily, there's only one official version of each season, but the first two and second two seasons were released by different companies, so they might have some differences. Oof. Collectonian mentioned that she was getting her names from the S season, so that's something. Are you looking at R? Except, R doesn't have Sailor Chibi Moon in it. Maybe Supers?

On the other hand, the scary thing about "official copies" of the DVDs is that there is no official copy of Stars, so if you have that, you very likely have bootlegs. >_>;; But maybe the first four are copied from official sources. It's hard to guess. --Masamage ♫ 18:26, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps start a project subpage where all the different names and versions get listed according to licensed media source? If this is desirable, I can help set the table up, I think. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 21:16, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

I have the complete subtitled versions of Sailor MoonS, Sailor Moon SuperS and Sailor Stars. My versions all use the hyphen for the names. :/ --UsagiEriko (talk) 22:53, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Hm, okay. I checked with a friend who has the licensed R ("Season 2") DVDs, and those, at least, do say Chibi-Usa. Unfortunately we can't rely on the Stars DVDs for ChibiChibi's name (since that season is unlicensed), but it seems like for consistency we should use the hyphen, Chibi-Chibi. (I figure no one who doesn't speak Japanese will get the pun anyway, so there's no point in preserving it directly when we'll just have to explain it anyway. ^^)

And sure, DinoGuy, it would definitely be handy at least for us editors to have a table like that! Then we'd for sure have a place to refer people to when they ask where we're getting this stuff. Good idea. :) The versions I can think of offhand that we care about here are, hmm... Japanese (in kanji/kana), romanized, English subs (possibly divided up by publisher if the 1/R and S/Supers ones differ), DiC, Cloverway, and TokyoPop. Then maybe a miscellaneous box where can throw things that don't fit the mold, like those dolls that renamed the Outer Senshi, and the promo tape. --Masamage ♫ 23:17, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Sailor Moon/Names - DISCLAIMER: I know very little about Sailor Moon and its English translations, so some of the examples are probably incorrect (and the table layout and contents aren't set in stone). 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 17:56, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Nice. I made some tweaks and corrections (eg DiC and Cloverway were dubbers), without adding more rows. Still look good to you? If so, I don't mind expanding on it some more. --Masamage ♫ 22:04, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Haha! Masamage, I was going to remove Serena's last name in the DiC section, since it was never mentioned, but you got to it first! It looks good, guys. :) --UsagiEriko (talk) 22:12, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Yep, feel free to change it any way necessary for it to be as useful as possible. ;) If you need help with table formatting for some reason, feel free to ask as well. =) 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 22:14, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for starting it! I shall now get busy making it terrifyingly enormous. :D --Masamage ♫ 22:17, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Please see Talk:Chibi-usa#Rename for further developments. Things have gotten even weirder! --Masamage ♫ 05:38, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Template:Sailor Moon colors

So, I performed some nominal cleanup on the {{Sailor Moon}} navbox back on August 13, and one of the hidden comments I left in the source at that time said "is anyone so attached to these colors that removing them would be problematic?". Five days passed without any comment on the issue whatsoever, so on August 18, I went ahead and commented out the colors, with an edit summary implying they could be uncommented if someone objected. Two hours later, Denelson83 (talk · contribs) uncommented the colors with the edit summary "I don't think of blue when I think of this show; I think of pink". To avoid any sort or appearance of an edit war over this, I decided to then raise the issue here: navboxes shouldn't be styled simply for the sake of coloring them, but at the same time, {{Sailor Moon}} has historically experienced editor inertia to changes like this. So, what are everyone else's thoughts on the matter? 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 16:56, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

I expect nobody saw the inline comment asking for opinions, or didn't take it to be starting a discussion, since it's not clear where a response should go.

I guess we can change it if we have to, but it seems like an odd requirement to me. There's no practical difference, after all. Why isn't a small amount of aesthetic design allowed? --Masamage ♫ 18:41, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

In {{Sailor Moon}}'s case, the coloring isn't so bad, but if you spend any amount of time working on navboxes, you come across some truly ghastly affairs (more examples can be found here, but you'll have to do some looking + history navigation), which is why styling them just for the sake of style is generally frowned upon. It's certainly not a requirement, though, which is why I left the comment, commented out the colors, and then started this discussion. Another, more general discussion on colors in navboxes can be found here. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 19:19, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Ich, that first one is bad. XD But yeah... I dunno. That discussion is interesting, but seems inconclusive on the matter of using shades of a single color for decoration--especially since it will actually still have a color in it if we make the switch. So I don't know. It is unnecessary, but it's kind of nice, and doesn't strike me as being distracting or anything. --Masamage ♫ 19:48, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Well, I'm personally fine with leaving it in; the only reason I really asked in the first place was because removing colors is one of the things being done in the course of cleaning these up. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 20:25, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Sure, that makes sense. It's good to question things every once in a while, anyway, heh. --Masamage ♫ 20:43, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, periodic questioning is a good thing - it led me just recently to find out about another aspect of navbox cleanup, in regards to eponymous categories, that I have since incorporated into my navbox cleanup work. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 21:15, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Character list

I've been toying with a master character list in my userspace for quite a while, but I'm going way too slowly and irregularly, so I should probably open it up so everyone can join in the fun. :P

I think I've included everyone important; they just all need little paragraphs about them. Should we rewrite the stuff about secondary folks? Or should we merge the List of minor Sailor Moon characters into this? Or what?

Anyway, I've moved it here now: Wikipedia:WikiProject Sailor Moon/List of Sailor Moon characters. --Masamage ♫ 23:28, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Minor note: Pegasus and Helios are separate in the manga... the anime changed it so they were the same being. Might, therefore, have a stronger case of listing as Helios, rather than Pegasus. Also you spelled ChibiChibi this way, but Chibi-Usa this way. Propbably be better to default to Chibiusa and Chibichibi to be congruent... manga-wise. You're also missing the Genius Loci from the manga. ^_^ If you want to be anal.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 00:55, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Actually, Helios still gets called "Pegasus", and is the same being as the Pegasus who appears in Chibiusa's dreams. It's just that he's named after another being called Pegasus, who is a separate character, but who is extremely unimportant.

And, I mostly just haven't gotten around to updating the Chibi-Chibi thing, since that discussion is still sort of going on. It looks like we'll probably be going with both caps and hyphenation for reasons discussed at Talk:Chibiusa, but I haven't finalized that yet. I just got back from a quasi-vacation, so I'll probably be chugging that along tomorrow. --Masamage ♫ 01:05, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Technical, but Helios got cursed into Pegasus's body by Nehelenia in the manga, and Pegasus was Helios's favorite horse. He states so in the manga. I think I added references to the original. I think the Chibichibi thing will work out. I'm just wondering how detailed the cast list should be, should it include all those MOTD and one-shot characters too? And the minor enemy group of the manga Genius Loci as well? (They were the major enemies in the majority of the side stories... the exam battles and the Hammer Price Shrine). ^^;; Sailor Cocoon, etc too... So how are we counting significance? Just wondering... 'cause I have a complete cast list including manga, anime musicals, PGSM and game characters. XD. Which is why I'm creating a character management system for my site, so it's not that much of a stretch away.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 00:34, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Right now I'm just going with no one-shot characters from the anime (so no MotD or victims), and including musical characters but not video game characters. I'm also including everyone from the manga. Where does the name Genius Loci come from? --Masamage ♫ 17:53, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Manga-based enemy of the Exam battles and a few of the Chibiusa Picture Diaries, particularly the Genius Loci of the Hammer Price Shrine story. It's a category of enemy like Black Moon family.

Cast lists discussion

Just so there can be more than two of us, please pop by Talk:Sailor Moon (English adaptations)#Cast List and share your thoughts! --Masamage ♫ 19:35, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Ages for enemies

The Official Website added profiles for the enemies for the first two arcs. Jadeite is 18, Nephlite is 19, Zoisite is 16-17 and Kunsite is 25-26. Dimande is listed as 18. I wonder if you'd count this as a retcon... But I thought it might be a nice heads up.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 02:27, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Nice. Those were in the Materials Collection, too. ^_^ Hooray consistency. We're already using them, even, except for Demand. Might as well add his, too, though. --Masamage ♫ 20:33, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Ratings in Japan?

I was wondering if there was a way we could get Sailor Moon's ratings in Japan for the episodes/season. It must be posted somewhere. I thought it might be useful to have for things like, which series was most popular and perhaps trends or reasons for sudden story direction change. Is there a website that would have such ratings?--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 19:00, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

That would be awesome, but I have no idea where to find it. I know Hitoshi Doi's site says that it mostly got ratings around 11%, falling to around 5% for most of Stars, but nothing more specific than that (and no source given, alas). --Masamage ♫ 19:14, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

I remember read ing it was the other way around, it dipped in S and Supers, but it came back up for Stars. If I come across the information again, I'll post it.Grapeofdeath (talk) 21:08, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Grigsby's 1998 paper says "Since March of 1992, an animated version of Pretty Soldier Sailormoon (Bishojo Senshi Seiramun) has been aired every Saturday night at seven o’clock by TV Asahi. Its rating of 12% is high, considering the prime time competition." There might be 'favourite episodes' in Animage's listings? --Malkinann (talk) 02:33, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

I did a search on Japanese Google and found the ratings high was 12.7% Lowest was 4.2% (Not a reliable source thoughーー＞http://home-aki.cool.ne.jp/anime-list/moon05.htm). If I could get the major companies that do ratings I may be able to find it from their databases. Is there a way to get an archive of ratings?--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 01:00, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

After PGSM

Weird side note, Shibue is in a new drama. If you want cheesy... this is triple cheesy. Oretachi wa Tenshi da is the title of the new drama. (English tile given by the Japanese company is No Angel No Luck, though that's not a direct translation... We are Angels is the more direct translation.) A Renzoku... the other cast members have shown up in Buzzer Beat (two of them) Komatsu Ayaka and Keiko Kitagawa. Might be worth noting... the other cast members aren't doing as well, though there are some dramas scheduled for Sawai Miyuu, her dramas haven't been getting high ratings. By far Keiko Kitagawa is doing pretty well landing leading roles, etc. Such as Mop Girl and Buzzer Beat.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 00:51, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Useful fact?

Artemis says in Episode 42 that "It's the same as that other time?" Usagi asked, "What other time?" Artemis answers"The way that the sunspots are spreading... It's just like when the Moon Kingdom was destroyed long ago." (Queen Serenity of the manga says it). (They are looking at images of the sun.)

Episode 45 Usagi cooks curry for her family and it has carrots in it and is seen eating a carrot. (Not just the R curry episode)--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 15:48, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Heads up

Just so everyone knows, there are some changes being made over at Talk:Sailor Venus/GA1 that will most likely carry over to all the other Senshi articles if approved. These include section order and names, number of fair-use images (probably down to two), better image rationales, and elimination of all fansite references (even if it means removing information until we find a better source).

I'm waiting to make sure the changes we've made are acceptable to the GA reviewers, but if they are, I'll assume the same concerns would come up with everything else and spread the changes around. --Masamage ♫ 21:26, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Main article image

It's been proposed at Talk:Sailor Moon that the image in the infobox there should be replaced with the original manga cover image per WP:BOOK. I like what we have better, but it's quite possible that I'm just being change-resistant, so I'd appreciate having a few more heads on this. Head over there, look at the arguments, see what you think! --Masamage ♫ 17:00, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Legal reference link?

Is Shingetsu (website) referenced by others, or is it a sake of convenience? Isn't it better to cite the original DVDs? Just pointing that out, since I think it's a project-wide issue.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 05:17, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

I think we used Shingetsu largely because it was convenient. --Malkinann (talk) 23:18, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Sailor Venus article Falls to C Class

Just letting you know... I'm not clear on this reassessment from GA to C.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 18:20, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

The rationale was added as comments. Otherwise you may ask the editor or at WP:ANIME/ASSESS for more information. G.A.S^talk 21:20, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Sailor Moon infobox

Is there anyway we can trim down the content in Sailor Moon's infobox as the infobox itself takes up 5 and a bit pages when rendered in book form. (Most other articles only have 3 pages' worth of infobox) The bloated size is mainly due to the other publishers/networks in the infobox (like an insane amount). (Copied from WT:ANIME)

It's not 'an insane amount of publishers/networks' - it's just that Sailor Moon has been published and aired in a lot of different places around the world, moreso than any of the other shows in the book. I believe Dragon Ball would look similar if it was put into the book format. --Malkinann (talk) 10:47, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Villan Profile Images

At the official site they have Manga Group shots of the Dark Kingom and Black Moon Clan. I'd link but it's part of the flash site and the actual images are saved in multiple parts (Likely for space or to prevent hot linking)

It's old artworwk but we can get away with putting it in their pages since it is a single image (sorta) now (And we didn't make it) The Japanese text is a pain but since the artwork can be found the Materials collection we could probably edit the artwork out useing shots from the materials collection to cover the text where it crosses the images and just edit the rest out. Or you can leave it. Doesn't matter to me >.>

Also while I'm at it... Why don't we take the Sailor Senshi's profile image from the site as well. We've been complaining we can't get a matching set for all 10.

---Lego3400: The Sage of Time (talk) 18:13, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Masamage had objections to using those profile images for the Senshi, I believe. So address it with her?--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 22:37, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

That may be but one person a group decision does not make. Secondly, I'm not going to bug her with this when the whole group should discuss it. Lego3400: The Sage of Time (talk) 08:07, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

There was a consensus at the time, so that's why I suggested it. Figure out what the consensus was, then change it according to that logic.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 17:18, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Lists of MOTD?

Someone added lists of the MOTD to the end of the villain articles. I think they are against wikipedia policy, so I vote to remove... Any objections?--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 17:17, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

No objections? I'll post to the article that I removed it.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 15:33, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Sailor Moon fandom?

I was just wondering, if there was any interest in a page about the english fandom itself, e.g., prevalence in pop culture, notable works like SMA and the Sailor Moon movie. Torca (talk) 00:10, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Sounds great, but we may need to compile a list of reliable sources which discuss the SM fandom first - at present, there's a bit about the fandom in Sailor Moon#Reception and Sailor Moon (English adaptations). The Harry Potter fandom article may be useful as a rough template? --Malkinann (talk) 01:13, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Updates to TV#MOS

I'm not sure how many people monitor WP:MOSTV or even WP:TV (the basic WikiProject for all of us), but we've been trying to get some feedback on additions to the TV Manual of Style. It largely has to do with the inclusion of "Overview" tables at the start of the page, the order in which season lists are presented (currently, there is no concrete order), and what is considered too much info for DVDs (i.e. should we be placing every detail about the box set in the article, from each interview to the aspect ratio, or should be keep it more generalized). Please see discussion at WT:MOSTV#Updates to the MOS. Thank you.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 22:14, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

English Dub Logos

I have copies of the English dub logos for "Sailor Moon R", "Sailor Moon S" and "Sailor Moon SuperS" as see on the English dub DVD's and VHS's. I can upload them if they are needed. JamesAlan1986 *^talk 08:37, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Requested a move

I have requested a move on the List of Sailor Moon chapters so that it is listed under it's proper name instead of it's English translation name. Thoughts and support or opposition to be posted on the first Wikilink. JamesAlan1986 *^talk 14:40, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

I no longer want to be a participant in this project

I can not support the close-mindedness of using the common use name for a franchise over the proper name and as such I can not help with this project. I'm sorry but I'd appreciate it if all that I have added to help gets removed from the pages. It's no longer my job I feel to help this out. JamesAlan1986 *^talk 15:10, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Sorry you feel that way. However, it's important to remember that we can not always have things the way we want, and WP:COMMONNAME clearly indicates the most commonly-used name is the article title which should be used. This isn't just an issue here at Sailor Moon, but is a widely-accepted and vetted policy on Wikipedia. If you want to leave over something as petty as that, we wish you well. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 16:04, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Blows off dust

• blows dust away* Well the First volumes are out, hopefully we can get some renwed spark now that we have a decent translation to things and settle some old debates. I've started addeing what I can but at the moment, it's only Sailor V stuff.Lego3400: The Sage of Time (talk) 05:33, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

"Only" Sailor V stuff? We finally have reception! *cries* :D --Malkinann (talk) 05:26, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

I agree. Finding reviews and such for Sailor V is quite difficult, especially in English. I've read the first volumes of each of the releases and enjoyed them. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 06:48, 29 September 2011 (UTC)