Forum:Merge all the Voice Actors and Seiyu

I say let's merge all the Seiyu and Voice Actors into one page. They aren't important within the series enough to be given a page of their own, like the Literary Devices and Animal Species. Also, most of these voice actor articles are way too stubby and short, and some don't even exist, resulting in a red link. Let's merge them all, reduce the need to look out for these articles, and easier to keep track. Yatanogarasu 21:31, March 4, 2011 (UTC)

Opinions and Discussion
I think we can get rid of the short articles, but the longer ones should be kept.

Why the longer ones too? This Wikia isn't a biography for voice actors, it's for One Piece characters. Yatanogarasu 21:47, March 4, 2011 (UTC) : This is "Real-Life Pirates" all over again. Yatanogarasu 21:48, March 4, 2011 (UTC) :


 * Maybe just the Straw Hat crew voice actors should be kept. They've even appeared in SBSs after all. 21:53, March 4, 2011 (UTC

) :Voice Actors are integral part of One Piece character. I can't image Luffy's as saying anything in other than Mayumi Tanaka's voice, like I can't image Franky without Kazuki Yao's voice acting. Voice Actors help build the character, it doesn't seem right to just throw them away just because Oda didn't "draw the voice" or some other such nonsense. :

Haha, I agree, but some characters switched actors during the process. Still, I think it's interesting to see information about voice actors without going to an external link (since it's kind of a pain going back to the wiki from an external link.) 22:24, March 4, 2011 (UTC) : : :

I think they should be either:


 * Merged to one article (so someone who is interested in the voice actors can check them out all in one place)


 * Reduced to the important seiyu's (straw hats) and integrated in the characters article, like a new tab for each Straw Hat called Seiyu/voice actor.

In any case, I think their current state of some articles is questionable, in general I don't like pages that contain not much content (quality > quantity). 23:33, March 4, 2011 (UTC)

I'm not bothered either way, although in a few cases there is the odd one that does pull off a strong call for a page, its not many. Also, I hate borrowing wikipedia terms but there is the phrase "pulling the house down before its finish" referring to removal of stubs before they can build up. That would be applicable here though, except that these have been here for years. One-Winged Hawk 00:45, March 5, 2011 (UTC)

Aw, look at every other wikia, do you see any of them making a page for each voice actor? No, they just use external links or do NOT link them at all. So my proposal is: delete them all or, at best, merge them into one page, which is far more than being merciful. Otherwise, we may as well restore all those real life pirates. Yatanogarasu 00:49, March 5, 2011 (UTC)

(Haha, Edit Conflict) Maybe.. we should at least merge the american voice actors, since they're not as main as the Japanese ones. (Sorry U.S. VAs!!!) I don't know. 00:51, March 5, 2011 (UTC)

You wanna be like the Harry Potter Wikia? They create a page for every actor, even the minor ones. No other wikia other than us do that (in our case, voice actors and seiyu) anymore, as far as I know. Trying to eliminate unnecessary pages, let's just delete all of them, and use external links or no links at all. Yatanogarasu 00:54, March 5, 2011 (UTC)