User talk:Marc8
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B/W/H
Please stop adding B/W/H to the artist's page as it's already mentioned in the article. Also, please look over this article (http://wiki.d-addicts.com/DramaWiki:Japanese_Artist_Article_Formatting) before you continue to edit the DramaWiki. --YtToshi 20:13, 11 Feb 2007 (CST)
- BUMP* YtToshi warned you not to add b/w/h information to the articles. Groink 16:35, 14 Feb 2007 (CST)
Use Birthdate
Do not change "birthdate" to "date of birth". Groink 18:25, 3 Mar 2007 (CST)
- You did it again. Don't change "birthdate". Format is "Year-Month-Date". Groink 19:06, 11 Mar 2007 (CDT)
Ai Otsuka
Ai Otsuka was born in Osaka, Japan. She was not born in Switzerland. Please DO NOT edit an article if you do not know anything about the subject of the article. Davedim 08:12, 22 Mar 2007 (UTC)
Formatting of Chinese drama articles
If you refer to the appropriate Chinese show article formatting guidelines (http://wiki.d-addicts.com/DramaWiki:Chinese_TV_Show_Article_Formatting), they're somewhat different from those of Japanese ones. Please don't change the format of the details section of Chinese articles like you've done with Han Dynasty Heroes if no changes to the current guidelines are made. Thanks. --Lady Zhuge 06:41, 31 May 2007 (CDT)
- Adding to above, dramawiki prefers non-specialized characters. We use "Bu Yao" and not "Bù yào." Many of us don't know how to read it. And, not everyone is equipped to type in those formats. Please read DramaWiki:Chinese TV Show Article Formatting, DramaWiki:Chinese Artist Article Formatting and DramaWiki:Romanization of Chinese before making any kind of big scale changes. --WaterOB 09:18, 31 May 2007 (CDT)
Capitalizing nouns
Please do not capitalize nouns, such as what you've been doing lately. Nouns are descriptions of people, places, or things. In English writing, you do not capitalize such words, such as president, comedian, actor, humanitarian, etc. The only words you capitalize are proper nouns, which are used to name a person, place or thing. Proper nouns are also used in the title of a person. For example, you would capitalize president when used as part of a person's title, such as "The president of Sony Corporation is President Chubachi Ryoji." Regarding DramaWiki convention, we do not capitalize the professions except for the first profession listed (ex: Actor and comedian). This is standard English style of writing. I personally minored in technical writing from an English-based university, and have published two books world-wide. Groink 19:48, 2 Jun 2007 (CDT)
- The exception for the above rule is a show's title. We follow American tradition of capitalizing the words. So instead of Fly with me, it should be "Fly with Me."--WaterOB 22:24, 9 Jun 2007 (CDT)
- Correct. Groink 22:36, 9 Jun 2007 (CDT)
Just a reminder, when you add a second or additional professions to an artist's article, they don't need to be capitalized. --Lady Zhuge 20:51, 24 Jun 2007 (CDT)
Moving article titles
Marc8, I see that you have been moving articles from their hanzi titles to English titles. This move does help English readers to choose which drama they want to read up and we are encouraged to use "English title" whenever possible. However, I'm not entirely comfortable that some articles were changed to their "Also known as" titles, especially in TWdrama section. "Also known as" is for shows with no official English name. It's solely there to explain what a show's hanzi title meant. Different places may translate the show differently. To avoid such case, we keep the existing articles as it's original hanzi title, especially in TWdrama section. Now, if you were to establish a brand new article under an "Also known as" title, we will defer to your choice. --WaterOB 08:43, 10 Jun 2007 (CDT)
- It's the same deal with a lot of Mainland series as well. For instance, "The Sea's Promise" is my literal translation for the drama Hai De Shi Yan and it's by no means an official English title. --Lady Zhuge 09:48, 10 Jun 2007 (CDT)
Country of origin
Please don't put a heavy emphasis on the country they were born. For the Japanese artists, 99.9999972363 percent of them were born in Japan, so unless otherwise specific it is assumed that if the artist is Japanese, then he was born in Japan. Please apply your editing energies on something else. Groink 21:23, 4 Jul 2007 (CDT)
- Along the same lines, I'm noticing that you're adding "Prefecture" to many of the artists. Terms like "prefecture", "city" are not really that necessary. To put it into perspective, it would like me saying I live in "Los Angeles City, California State." Although the Japanese use terms like "-shi" and such, translating it along with the names of the cities and prefectures are not necessary. i.e. please focus your energies on development of the articles. Groink 19:32, 29 Jul 2007 (CDT)
Miscellaneous information
I've noticed that you've been adding a lot of miscellaneous information that doesn't belong in the profile section (hobbies, education, special skills). These things do not belong in the profile section, instead should go into the "Trivia" section. Please refer to the artist article formating guide for more info on what does, and doesn't fall into the profile section. --Pineapple 20:35, 10 Jul 2007 (CDT)
- You really need to stop adding unnecessary information to the profile sections, it's not all that hard to make a trivia section for that type of info. --Pineapple 19:36, 11 Jul 2007 (CDT)
Again, you are deviating from the DramaWiki style guide. Why did we create the style guide? So that it'll give you something to crap on? If so, I'll snail-mail you some newspaper as a supplement. Groink 00:46, 21 Sep 2007 (CDT)
- I provided you with a direct link to how the profile section should be edited yet you still insist on doing your own thing. The "Family" field goes before "Talent agency" I've noticed that you recently keep changing that and putting it after. Is it really that difficult to follow such simple guidelines? --Pineapple 16:45, 7 Oct 2007 (CDT)
- Please put "Native origin" in the trivia section, not the profile section. --Lady Zhuge 21:26, 18 Jun 2008 (CDT)
Zhang Xin Yu -> Achel Zhang
Please finish what you started. You had moved her article to Achel Zhang, you should go into each of her dramas and update her name as well. --WaterOB 09:06, 4 Dec 2007 (CST)
Lin En
Where are you getting that Lin En's English name is Lynn Lai? --Lady Zhuge 19:57, 22 Jun 2008 (CDT)
- chinese wikipedia
- Chinese Wikipedia has her English name(s) as LING/Linan, not Lynn. Her real name is 賴琳恩, but her celebrity name as well as the name by which she is most commonly known is 琳恩. Therefore, I'm reverting your changes. Please do not just move artist articles to their English names without considering other factors such as the name by which they are most commonly known. --Lady Zhuge 21:57, 22 Jun 2008 (CDT)
Inappropriately moving articles
Stop moving articles when it's evident that you're not familiar with the subjects, nor do you have a decent grasp of the Chinese language to do the proper research. I'm getting sick of having to revert your edits. --Lady Zhuge 19:51, 24 Jun 2008 (CDT)
- Also, you don't have to fix the links in all the originating articles. This is completely unnessecary because it is handled by redirects that are created when moving a page. A possible re-renaming makes all those edits redundant. --MoerkJ talk 18:21, 1 Oct 2008 (CEST)
