Talk:Death Note/Archive 3

message: Can someone explain what these "lost numbers" are? I did a quick search and nothing obvious came up. Statuess 16:13, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just curious, but what does this have to do with Death Note, or the Death Note article?SuperDT 02:22, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lost numbers? 

message: :There seems to be some confusion as to the correct spelling of the FBI agent's name in the anime. I believe it was given as 'Raye Penber' in the manga, and it should be the same in the anime. Here's a screenshot from episode 4 where Raye shows Light his FBI ID, where the English handwriting is badly done, turning his name into 'Ral Penlar' or whatever you'd like to interpret the scribbles to be. Let's stick with Raye Penber, not Penbar or the like. -Atashi 07:27, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've asked in a community I'm part of, where a lot of the members ordered How To Read 13. When two people have confirmed the spelling in How To Read 13, I'll post it here so there's no more fuss. Nique1287 19:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

text: UPDATE - I've had confirmation that it is, in fact, spelled Raye Penber in How To Read 13. I guess it's written as 'Ray Penbar' in the anime because they didn't double-check with the manga-ka before scribbling it out. Anyway, I'm about to go through and edit all instances of it (again) to the proper spelling. Also, to the person who's been editing it back to "Penbar", when I changed the spellings I did it so that there'd be consistency across all the articles that mention him, and you left one out. Consistency is the key to non-confusion for the readers. Nique1287 20:43, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Raye Penber

message: Death Note = Shonen?
:Yep. More serious fare than the typical slashfests, but Shonen nontheless. (If written from a different perspective, it would make a Seinin-worthy theme though.) --tjstrf Now on editor review! 02:12, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shonen? 

message: How did Light kill the man on TV pretending to be L if he wrote the wrong name down? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.138.74.144 (talk • contribs) 18:49, 5 November 2006  (UTC)
:I think you're referring to the criminal whose name he heard but didn't see, because the man on TV had his proper name on the desk in front of him. Light killed him by writing down all the different variations on his name, although as per the How To Read rules revealed every volume, if a name is misspelled more than 4 times that person is freed from death by the Death Note, but Light apparently spelled it correctly the first time he wrote it, which is why he died. Long story short: The names of criminals that Light got from the TV were correct, and when he did guess at a name, he got it right the first time. Lucky guy, eh? Nique1287 22:25, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  False Name? 

message: First off, Nique1287, thank you for putting up that invisible note regarding the fan sites.  I completely agree with what you said, and that no Death Note fan site deserves a place on Wikipedia... yet.  
Second, about the trivia section.  The Death Note article is quickly getting better and better each and everyday, and because of this, the trivia section should start becoming less and less there.  If it were up to me, I'd remove all that trivia with no merging, but I want to see what you guys think about it, because some info does seem a little notable.  SuperDT 03:24, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 'Twas no problem. The constant re-adding was getting annoying because it doesn't seem to fit the general guidelines as per WP:EL, though I admit that it makes room for very popular and extensive fansites, and there don't seem to be enough other sites that I could find in the History that could be used to put together a Fan Sites section. As for your suggestion, much of the trivia is just conjecture, like the reference to Madonna's music video, or unrelated to the plot, like the 108 and the meanings of the artist's and writer's name. Unless there's trivia that is related directly to Death Note that we can source and confirm, I agree with getting rid of it. Nique1287 14:03, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding the Article

message: Due to the sheer number of Death Note-related articles on the market at the moment, there should be a template at the foot of each page linking to the other Death Note articles. At the moment, they include Death Note (obviously), Characters of Death Note, List of Death Note episodes, Rules of the Death Note and, bizarrely, Shinigami Eyes. Not to mention the individual episode articles. I'd do it myself, but I've no idea how to use those wiki-tables. Ppk01 19:50, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I made one, but I'm unsure if Death Note really needs it. Those episode pages seem very detailed and probably contain too much summary, which isn't really wikipedia policy. However, below's the template. --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 00:15, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The "episodes" part is gonna get ridiculous after a while...maybe just link to the episode list or use numbers?—ウルタプ 00:58, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I only made it as per Ppk01's request. It's at Template:Death Note in any case. --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 01:44, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I think a seperate table for the episodes (that can be hidden and shown using one of those 'hide' buttons in the corner) would be best. That way, it could only be included on the episode articles. Either that or remove the individual episodes from the template completely. --Ppk01 11:35, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Now it feels empty, so I'm not sure we need it yet. --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 16:58, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I added the 'hide/show' feature for the individual episodes and shortented the length of the template. I think it looks better now and should be incorperated into all the Death Note articles soon. --(十八|talk) 20:37, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I took out the line breaks between some episodes. --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 00:00, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  We Need one of those Templatey Thingies 

message: As per Wikipedia:External links, I removed the link to White Rabbit Press. This edit was quickly reverted by Nique1287, who said:
While it is true that the website offers Death Note manga for sale, it is not a relevant link for an encyclopedia article. In particular, this link violates the sixth example on the links normally to be avoided list: "Links to bookstore sites". I am hereby formally requesting that this link be officially removed from the page. Thank you for your time. --Ppk01 22:11, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed it because your initial justification was not "As per WP:EL", but in fact "What did we say about No More Links", which was NOT justification for removal of that link since it had been there previously. Nique1287 00:09, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But now it's cause of WP:EL, so we're at a consensus? --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 01:07, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, since there's more than one person concerned about it and since it's been established now that it doesn't conform to WP:EL. As I said, it was only reverted earlier because of improper justification. I don't like seeing things happen for poor reasons on Wiki. Nique1287 01:16, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry about that. I'll try and be clearer in future. --Ppk01 20:54, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  White Rabbit Press 

message: Just thought I'd add this in here if anyone's interested; I just made it. --(十八|talk) 05:05, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh. May I make a suggestion? "This user has a Death Note and uses Wikipedia to research names for it."  (or maybe "This user uses Wikipedia to research names for their Death Note"? You could write that sentence a number of ways, some of which might be an improvement). --Gwern  (contribs) 16:51, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Lol that would be pretty funny.  Good job Juhachi! SuperDT 18:15, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Or "This user has a Death Note and writes in names of Wikipedia vandals." I'd totally use that. --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 21:40, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have created two more varients for your pleasure. Use as you wish. ;) --(十八|talk) 23:02, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Can't believe I missed the reply. Thanks for making it! --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 08:43, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Death Note userbox

message: Someone unregistered, at the IP 154.5.47.4, added a number of comments/subsections to the Characters of Death Note page regarding the changed sequence of events in the movies. I was wondering if anyone has seen the movie and can confirm, elaborate, and clean up these sections, because some of the points made are quite confusing. A few people have tried to clean up the spelling and grammar but some of it still doesn't quite make sense, to me at least. Thanks ahead of time! (I would try to help out on this more, but my knowledge of Japanese is very limited and the movie hasn't been completed by any of the fansubbers who've taken it on yet, so I'd probably end up making even more mistakes. ^^; ) Nique1287 12:21, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Movie Version" points on the Characters Of page 

message: Should the movies recive their own page? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.40.224.179 (talk) 
:I don't think there's enough information on the movies to warrant them getting their own page. I mean, you COULD elaborate on the plot, the changes from the anime, and so on, but there just doesn't seem to be enough to make it worth splitting it up. A lot of the information that would go on there is already on other pages, such as the changes being on the Characters Of page. Good suggestion, but I don't think the movies are quite ready for it yet. Nique1287 15:21, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Split section?