Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga/Collaboration of the Week

message: Looking at the last AMCOTW Saber Marionette, it's clear that it hasn't improved at all. The only notable addition has been the infobox and one comment about the manga, but that's it. --TheFarix (Talk) 16:32, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, the whole A&MCotW thing has been pretty pitiful. Maybe we should discontinue it. Unless someone can think of a good idea to make it work. --SeizureDog 21:57, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Because this weeks AMCOTW hasn't improved and I don't see how I can pull a viable excerpt for the portal, I suggest that we pick another article for the selected anime article. A couple of weeks ago, another editor attempted to stack three anime articles ahead of time, but I wiped them out in favor of previous AMCOTWs. I'll take a look at one of those three articles—Voltron, Vampire Hunter D and Ninja Scroll—and see which one is in the best shape and I can make a proper excerpt from. --TheFarix (Talk) 22:22, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Broadening the scope of this collaboration I think would help (see Should AMCOTW need at least two votes?). --Miss Ethereal 14:45, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Saber Marionette was already a B-class article before it became AMCOTW, so expanding the criteria to officially include B-class articles probably isn't going to help improve matters with lack of participation. --TheFarix (Talk) 15:16, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This isn't defined on the project page though.  If we collaborated on a few B-class articles people may become more aware and more interested.  We can't assume that just because Saber did badly, that all B-class noms will replicate.  --Miss Ethereal 16:39, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Personally, I don't think having a collaberation is of much use unless we are able to bring up articles to Good status. If we could somehow encourage everyone to obtain references needed for above B-class status, then these collaberations might go somewhere. --SeizureDog 23:08, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and included into the scope of this collaboration B-class articles.  I also nominated Neon Genesis Evangelion.  I think it's a good article to nominate as it will attract attention to the collaboration as it is quite popular.  Furthermore, this article has recently undergone a peer review, and as such, has discussions on how it can be improved.  This article is also close to GA status, but as it lacks references it will help emphasize the requirements for references, one of the problems with references are that people don't know how to reference them.  If this article is collaborated on, the first step would be to have someone (not me as I'm pretty bad at referencing) go through the article and stick in  templates so that users know what needs to be referenced.  A few references should already be in place, and from there, users can use those as templates and attempt to fill in the citations.  Hopefully this addresses everyone's concerns, it was the only thing that I could think of for this collab.  --Miss Ethereal 16:20, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Ah, I see that Monster is a failure too. If it weren't for me deleting that big useless Trivia section, then the AMCOTW would have been a total failure. Seriously, either you have a drive of people who will help out every week, or this sinks. This shouldn't really happen again. --TcDohl 01:53, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As Ynhockey pointed out before, COTWs in general have been suffering. People won't be able to collaborate on stuff that they know nothing about as well. Because everyone has different interests and there are so many genrés of anime and now we've broadened that range to include manga, even those who want to contribute find themselves unable to. Perhaps we need to do something different such as change from working in a collaboration type way, to instead create a centralized peer review project as I see a few other WikiProjects doing. I don't actually like that idea, but peer reviews seem to be "easier" for those with little knowledge on the subject to contribute. --Squilibob 14:36, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I like that. It seems that most mangas and anime that have not yet been collaborated on fall in the "obscure" category (apart, maybe, Ranma 1/2). And even if ability was there, motivation may not be. --SidiLemine 15:18, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Howabout just have seperate sections (i.e. Manga, Anime, Misc, et al), and arrange them in a queue format? Slot one article per section for a week, then rotate. Nobody nominates an article for a section, then the section remains blank for a week. --293.xx.xxx.xx 00:59, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another failure? 

message: The anime FLCL is currently a nominee on Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive, and it would mean a lot to us if any of those interested would vote for it. -Litefantastic 14:26, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Anime on the Article Improvement Drive

message: I've been thinking of redesigning some of the templates, , , and , to make them look more attractive. For starters, the current color schema doesn't stand out among the banners when there are several listed on a talk page. The  could be more subdue then the others, but  definitely needs to stand out.  also appears too cluttered and should be streamlined. It should also be moved to  as well. And while not on my list,  could use a makeover, or at least have a matching color schema to the other templates. --TheFarix (Talk) 13:44, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, drop the BarnSakura and they'll look much better than the original. --Squilibob 05:56, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redesigning the templates 

message: Let us know if you happen to pick an article on a person and we'll alert our members! plange 05:46, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Biography 

message: Stupid question, but can we nominate Anime companies for collabs? I seriously want to nominate 4Kids Entertainment so that it's neutral and semi-stable. Theirs alot of info, but it too messy in a couple of areas. --293.xx.xxx.xx 09:46, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The basic criteria is that it be an anime and manga related article, so an anime company would qualify. --TheFarix (Talk) 15:19, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nomination Question

message: I've added a bunch of info to Kino's Journey -- episode listings, cleaning up a bit of the character info. However, and I know this is silly, I don't actually have copies of the DVDs yet. Can someone verify the episode title names, etc.? It would also be great if someone could get screenshots in. --choi9999 17:33, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding Kino's Journey 

message: I've noticed that my nomination for Catgirl has the required 2+ votes, and it's still on the other article. What gives? --293.xx.xxx.xx 02:29, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  So....Whos updating? 

message: Hello? Anyone home? It's been over two months since the current "Collaboration of the Week" candidate was selected and the next one was supposed to have been selected on October 14. I think it's time for an update. // Sasuke-kun27 15:57, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not update it yourself? There were no specific people who were task with keeping the AMCOTW current, but it was simply left to whoever was able to get to it first. --TheFarix (Talk) 18:52, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Next "Collaboration of the Week" candidate 

message: I suggest that this page be made into Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Collaboration of the Week.  Cocoaguy ここがいい contribstalkTodays Pick 23:47, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move page