Talk:Soma Cruz

message: "Soma" is 蒼真.
Look that up in any Japanese dictionary.
蒼い: Blue.
真: True, real.
His surname was originally "Kurusu" (来須), which is also Japanese, which was changed to "Cruz" in an attempt to make the first game more accessible to non-Japanese.
This is true. "'Soma Cruz' means 'cross of a ritual drink of importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the later Vedic and Iranian cultures, and specifically in Hindu mythology!' isn't. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.156.6.61 (talk • contribs) 04:25, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  White?  Ritual drink? 

message: I've removed the entire Allusions to Dracula section as it's all OR. Jtrainor 19:00, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: Soma and Dracula ARE pretty much the same person, so would it be a good move if this page was merged into Dracula (Castlevania)? Soma could still have his biography in a section, if so. 66.63.86.156 18:12, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Two distinct characters. Soma is the protagonist of his own set of games also. Separating them is best. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 19:50, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with Dracula? 

message: The article doesn't present any real out of universe information, and its content is only plot summary, thus it fails WP:WAF. If the OOU content can be found, and this is slightly compacted and rearranged, I'm sure it will pass next time. TTN 18:32, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Failed GA nomination

message: The article states that Soma is a transfer student; while Aria's prologue states this, it is a mistranslation. Should it be removed or not?
:This is not a mistranslation. I remember IGA once said in an interview that Soma is Japanese in the original version, but had his ethnicity changed in the overseas version to make the game more marketable. I can't remember the exact source, but it was a Japanese strategy guide for Aria of Sorrow. Jonny2x4 07:05, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I just added that detail. 88.161.129.43 (talk) 03:32, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Transfer Student

message: I think it is MOS convention to refer to a character by his or her surname. hbdragon88 (talk) 08:23, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that's just for real people. See Jason Voorhees, Padmé Amidala, and Aerith Gainsborough, which all use the character's first name. That and it would sound awkward using "Cruz" continuously, seeing as he's never referred to by his surname in either game. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 22:15, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: O RLY?  Hmmm.  I just thought it was, and was changing them on the Yu-Gi-Oh! pages and such, the most recent being "Duke" to "Nukem" on on DN3D.  Looking at WP:VG/GA, the problem is that quite a few of them have no surname – Kirby, Nicole, etc. hbdragon88 (talk) 23:38, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tone 

message: :GA review (see here for criteria)
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Wow, this is about as close as I've ever gotten to passing an article without putting it on hold first. One tiny problem though:
#The lead needs to conform to WP:LEAD. Specifically it must address all major points/headings made in the body of the article. Currently, there's nothing on the "reception" section.
#And while you're at that, sentence should never begin with however, as they can always be re-worded more appropriately without the "however" at the beginning. There are several examples of this throughout the text.
After that, I'll be more than happy to pass this as a Good Article. To allow for these changes to be made, I will sacrifice the corneas of a vampire to the dark gods place the article for on hold for a period of up to seven days, after which it may be failed without further notice. Which would suck. Thank you for your work thus far. Cheers, CP 09:02, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixes made. Regards, Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 19:44, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent, no hesitation in passing this article as a Good Article. Congratulations and thank you for your hard work! Cheers, CP 22:09, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA Review 

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message: I've found no source on his being Romanian online except a couple of other wikis which also give no source. As far as I can tell, in the English version he's only 'an exchange student from Europe' (I assume Spain based on his last name, but we can't put assumptions in the main article), and in Japanese he's purely Japanese. Dracula being Romanian does not make Soma Romanian. 94.194.105.123 (talk) 09:29, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Romanian?