Forum:Appearances, Bombs and Real World

Look I've been to Wookieepedia and I don't know how this will affect how One Piece Wiki works but could we do what they do with Appearances and Sources so we can build up pages with few to little references and source material pages can list more than Characters they can also list Creatures, Events, Locations, Organizations, Titles, Sentient species, Vehicles, Vessels, Weapons, Technology and Miscellanea.

After reading the recent chapter I think it is time to make a page on bombs seeing as there have been bombs from the beginning including suicide bombers like Hiluluk and Pedro or attempted suicide bombers like Dalton and that soldier from the Neptune Army (Chapter 631 (p. 8-9) Episode 551) we could use for the infobox the bomb seen with Mr. 7 and Miss Father's Day in the clock tower at the end of the Alabasta Saga.

Lastly the real world links like Wikipedia can be outdated and changed by outside sources, I think it would be best to make pages of there own like Eiichiro Oda and cover information outside of but still related to the series for the Cast and Staff of One Piece.--Rgilbert27 (talk) 14:27, September 11, 2017 (UTC)

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You should talk to an admin about this.

14:34, September 11, 2017 (UTC)

Where did you think I first went.--Rgilbert27 (talk) 14:48, September 11, 2017 (UTC)


 * Real world articles: I think real world articles / common pages are unnecessary unless there is something different about them in One Piece (or we need a more organized source of information complemented with One Piece-related stuff or we have named items. An example of that would be Sword, since there we also cover the meitos and their classifications). I don't see anything special about bombs in One Piece nor I think we have "named" bombs, so I don't see the purpose of such page.
 * Wikipedia articles: iirc the wiki once had the pages about the voice actors, but they were removed because they were the carbon copy of their Wikipedia counterparts and we concluded it was more efficient to just link them. You say "real world links like Wikipedia can be outdated and changed by outside sources", but I think it's the other way around, especially since we take the majority of information about them from Wikipedia anyway.

There are various One Piece media that don't have a united Appearances section. Episodes and specials‎ still use Characters in Order of Appearance, OVAs, movies and featurettes use cast and role, chapters and most one-shots list characters by the group there with and omake's, music (openings and endings‎ included‎) and merchandise (books and video games included‎) do not list appearances what so ever. Sources give information that's not present in the series like magazines (Shonen Jump included), volumes (SBS included), art books (animation books included), databooks and more. Appearances can not only build up in universe pages but also source pages as well. While references are important adding one sentence summaries like:

One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 51 Chapter 499 (p. 15-16) and Episode 393, A rather small, young-looking Bonney saves Zoro by faking his death.

can be confusing if the reference is incomplete or the summary came before a user completes a reference. A reference should be the nuts and bolts like:

One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 51 Chapter 499 (p. 15-16) and Episode 393

if not go further by adding seasons and pieces with links to both them and volumes and in time add panels and timestamps to the references close to:

One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 51 Chapter 499 (p. 15-16) Panels 6-9 and Season 11 Piece 3 Episode 393

at least something close to that.

Bombs have been around as Romance Dawn when Higuma used a smoke bomb, there are not only bombs that explode there are ones that use smoke or poison as well. There are also the bomb collars used by the World Nobles, there are plenty of appearances by bombs if you know where to look.

What I meant more or less was the cast and staff like editors, assistants (manga), animation directors,‎ art directors,‎ directors, screenwriters, storyboarders‎, voice actors (anime) and artists (music). Wikipedia, IMDb and Anime News Network are not always up to date and not protected by One Piece Wikia. They are also not always mention in foreign publications and some to most work together in other projects as well. It would be better if they were given there own pages if only for the credits.

Well this is all I could think of for this forum at this time, hopefully this will help make this wikia better. All the luck--Rgilbert27 (talk) 22:22, September 12, 2017 (UTC)

I don't think having summaries in citations is really an issue as long as the citation is filled out. The way we do citations is through a template that lets us fill in everything at once, so cutting out the summary wouldn't help anything. Adding things like panel numbers and set numbers would be confusing because not everyone would be able to figure out which panel is which and the piece numbers are exclusive to Japan, so they would most likely be more confusing to people outside of Japan (which is just about everyone here).

Adding info for every single staff member who worked on the manga or anime would be excessive and I don't think it would add much. Short of digging through Japanese sources (and almost none of us speak Japanese), there's nothing we could add that isn't already covered better on Wikipedia or ANN. Besides, the sheer number of staff who have worked on One Piece over the years is staggering, and creating a page for every single person would take forever and most of them would be stubs. Looking at animation directors alone, OP has had over 30 different people in the roll, and listing every one of them wouldn't be feasible for us since there aren't a lot of English sources with enough info on them to fill out a full article. It's better to just link to Wikipedia or ANN, since those are where we would get the info anyway. 01:44, September 13, 2017 (UTC)


 * There is no reason for Appearances since main characters like Luffy will have a longer appearances list then most of their page.
 * I do not understand what is the problem with the sources. All you gave examples for are references.
 * My policy on new page is make then first, then discuss for it's usage in that talk page. Personally I'm not against a page that collect all of those things, but I think we need to call it "Explosive", and if you want to include smoke and poison it can be a subsection on that page. "Bomb" does not cover dynamite or grenades.
 * I do not see a reason not to have a wiki page for some of the professions you mention, especially since some episodes are categorized by their writers, art directors, and animators but it will have to be a very simple page, I'm thinking maybe just a list with everyone by their title, and each name can then be linked to outside sources. Maybe a link to their category if they have one, or their wiki page (for the sole ase of Eiichiro Oda. As for the manga editors, I do not think IMDB keep track on them so we'll have to find another source for that.

Lastly, having a discussion (be i in a forum or a talk page) on more then one subject can be problematic and confusing. Someone might not have an opinion on one subject but not another and the discussion about the later would either be stopped or ignored until addressed again. Maybe we can continue each discussion on a separate subtitle on this forum? Rhavkin (talk) 05:28, September 13, 2017 (UTC)