Talk:Death Note/Archive 4

message: This article fails to mention that an artbook of death note has also been released in Japan titled "blanc et noir" Source: http://www.shueisha.co.jp/s-book/blanc/com/ I believe this is the only artbook of such that exists Adreamtonight 09:32, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: blanc et noir

message: Death Note is palced under some odd categories, namely the Drama anime/manga, articles with unsourced statements, and Motif of harmful sensation.  First, does Death Note really fall under the Drama genre?  Second, I think we've cited our sources pretty well, and it's a whole lot better than many articles out there, and I believe it doesn't need the articles with unsourced statements category.  Lastly, according to the definition of Motif of harmful sensation, it's when harm befalls someone who has a certain sensation.  Can someone please tell me how Death Note falls into that category?  Thanks!  SuperDT 02:48, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Articles with unsourced statements category is automatically added by the failed verification template, which can be seen next to the final citations in both the Manga and Movie sections. The Manga citation doesn't exist anymore (and does not appear on the Wayback Machine), and the Movie citation doesn't appear to have anything to do with Death Note. When these two citations have been clarified and/or replaced with better ones (preferably in English), the verification tags (and, by extension, the unsourced statements category) will be removed. --Ppk01 20:37, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Regarding the Categories

message: How much more does this article need to be improved before it can be considered an A, GA, or Featured article?  SuperDT 00:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I dunno. Let's nominate it and find out. --Ppk01 16:31, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Just curious

message: Does anyone know if Death Note is broadcasted in High Definition? Because I looked at my episodes that I've got saved, and Episode 1 was in 720p High Definition, and the rest weren't. Was this the only episode broadcasted like this?
RedEyesMetal 16:08, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What do you mean exactly by "there are upscales"? It must be broadcast in high definition by some broadcaster if it's available in the high definition format for downloads. If they were just scaled in size during editing, quality would be much lowered, would it not? Nique1287 20:11, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Quality is lower, for example if you look at outlines you will see it is very blurry. I upscaled regular 480i (deinterlaced) to 1280x720 (Lanczos3) and it is sharpen than "that 720p" floating on p2p. More proof: There is no HiVision logo at start, while Death Note movie that aired at 810p had, both aired at NTV), further proof: There is a lot of other series upscaled floating on internet. There are even DVD-Rips upscaled to 1280x720. For image look at http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/7600/untitledor4.png. 84.248.132.197 15:10, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the anime broadcast in HDTV? 

message: Should we get Death Note Semi- Protected?  I've noticed a lot of reverts done to stop vandalism and loads of link spam, and I think getting it semi-protected would at least help to solve this problem a bit.  --SuperDT 18:33, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I only see about 8 reversions over the past 3 days. Doesn't seem bad enough to merit going all the way to semi-protection, IMO. --Gwern  (contribs) 20:40 10 December 2006 (GMT)
I vote semi-protect. J'onn J'onzz 01:49, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I also want to vote for a semi-protect of this page. It gets vandalized far too much and it's a pain to keep it going in the right direction.--(十八|talk) 01:08, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Semi-Protect [[Death Note]]?

message: I find this article meets the Good Article criteria.  For future improvement, I would recommend:
*Move the citations in the lead to the appropriate place in the main body of the article.  Some of the information, such as the licensing by Viz, may need to be repeated in the main body in order to do so.  That's fine.  No citations in the lead is one of the FA/MoS guidelines.
*Tighten up the text further.  It's quite well-written, though.
*Add information about the game and new movie as it becomes available.  I'm sure this will be done, just mentioning it for completeness.
Congratulations, and thanks for your hard work. Shimeru 23:01, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: GA

message: I removed the information regarding VIZ Media's US licensing of the anime from the lead section. It is a recent event, but does not seem like it is of enough importance to be in the lead section, the rest of which contains basic information and what forms the story exists in. Other forms have been licensed as well (the manga by VIZ as well) and this is not mentioned in the lead... I don't feel that information needs to be there and I think it is dealt with well enough in the specific later sections. One Alternate 13:34, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind, reverting it back as per guidelines in WikiProject Anime and manga article guidelines. One Alternate 09:05, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Licensing information in lead section 

message: Hey there, can I ask why there are no pictures of Near or Mello on this page? Even uncyclopedia has them!  Although Near's isn't so good here (but I'm sure there are good ones out there) Mello's is definately good enough, provided it's not copyrighted or anything (happy to look into it). Just thought I'd ask if there's a specific reason or is it just that no one's put any images up yet? --Aceizace 00:24, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Personally, I feel that there are too many character pictures on this page as is. Pictures are fine for the main Characters section of a series, but since Death Note's is separate, I don't think we really need any pictures of the characters on the main article, and some of them are shown quite large, which moves other sections around and makes it so that the pictures don't necessarily align with the description of the character shown. Near and Mello have pictures on the List of Death Note characters page, but I find that since the character summaries on the main page for the article are so short, since we're avoiding spoilers as much as possible, pictures can very easily mess up the aesthetics of the section. That's just my opinion of why there aren't more pictures of major characters here, though, since I haven't seen any real justification for some characters having pictures on this page and others not. ^^; Nique1287 00:33, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: So there are, I had to cover the screen with my hand when I saw that page contained certain people's real names :-p (it's ok I already knew Mello's and I didn't see Near's (I've forgotten L's already...)). I agree with you though, but I think it looks worse without Near and Mello's pictures, because Mello's description starts next to Misa's picture. I think we should either remove all the character pictures (except maybe Light and Ryuk? Or maybe all?) or put their's in to try and format the descriptions better. --Aceizace 14:20, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Near & Mello's pictures 

message: I recently read the Death Note pilot, and I was wondering whether it's canon or not.  Is it? Willy101 04:15, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really, no. Firstly, Ryuk says in Death Note that there hasn't been a Death Note on Earth for centuries, which already retcons the pilot. Secondly, the Death Note pilot was, as the last word implies, a pilot, though a printed chapter instead of a TV episode. It was later "re-envisioned" into the Death Note we know and love today. So it's not really canon, and while it was the "predecessor" of the modern Death Note series, I personally don't feel it's really noteworthy enough to list on this page, though if a majority of people agreed to list it, I wouldn't contest the matter. Nique1287 15:31, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Death Note Pilot

message: I know the timeline for the manga is 2003, but is the movie set in 2005 and the anime in 2006?
Raye Penber's Date of Death in the manga is December 27th 2003, then Naomi dies 1st of January 2004.
In the anime, Naomi dies in 2007, so that means Light found the note in 2006 and killed Raye on December 2006.
But what about the movie? The movie lists it as 2006, but I'm thinking it might be 2005...
RedEyesMetal 15:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Does it really matter what year the events took place in, in the movies and the anime? The only reason the dates were changed, as far as I can tell, is because of the year the respective media debuted in. So the anime and presumably the movie (I haven't seen or heard any date references in the movie, but we can assume that it's 2006 since the movie premiered in 2006) start in 2006, and the manga started in 2003. Considering that the manga was the original medium and continues to be the most popular, the only dates that should matter within the plot are those outlined in the manga. Nique1287 15:17, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct Death Note Timeline?