Forum:Manga/Anime Switch

In the past few months, I've noticed we've had issues with picking when an infobox picture should become manga or anime. Sometimes, the quality of the anime is bad, and we have to wait for an acceptable image to replace the manga. Sometimes people fight over which one is better, when they are pretty much equal sometimes. I believe this can be fixed by using the switch template in a new way. If you look here, you'll see how the Catalian wiki uses it, and it's actually quite efficient. Then you can check a page like this to see it without the timeskip options. I believe this will help calm the issue of anime vs. manga in the infoboxes, and make things better overall.

Discuss below. 04:57, January 1, 2013 (UTC)

Discussion
It seems worth trying out, but couldn't someone argue that it would just be making something overly complicated? 05:07, January 1, 2013 (UTC)

Well yeah. But it's overall better in the long run, because people aren't edit warring over such a silly issue. 05:10, January 1, 2013 (UTC)

I'm all for this idea, I've seen it used on several other wiki as well. As for deciding on a new image (whenever the need arises) we could implement a short voting system similar to what we use on the Bleach Wiki.

Yes it may take longer to decide, but once a decision is made there should be no argument against the infobox image used (which is something we seem to encounter much too often). 05:59, January 1, 2013 (UTC)

We shouldn't be using the tabber extension though. It's buggy and ugly. I suggest one switch and remove the pre/post-skip completely since it's utterly useless and annoying anyway and is barely followed.

It's for articles that need it Sewil. People that look different after the timeskip. Although, I'd rather go for most recent appearance, and put past appearances in the gallery.. 06:20, January 1, 2013 (UTC)

If we have the tabs, let's make the colors easier to notice. The colors that that Wiki has now, I can hardly tell what tab it's on. 06:44, January 1, 2013 (UTC)

That's the thing about tabber. You can't change its colors. You can only decide stuff like height before scroll and statements like if it's going to have a border or not. Believe me, I've tried. I even went in to the inspect element to find out the exact CSS classes it used, but it didn't work even then.

Is it just the background, or is it the lettering too? 07:00, January 1, 2013 (UTC)

I think you can change the background for only the active tab, but I don't fully remember, you'd have to test it out for yourself. But the one you see on the Català One Piece is the default style but with a removed border.

I don't support it at all. The manga images already exist under most images uploaded already when replaced by the anime version. If needed they can go into the gallery. There is no actual need for the switch. It will clutter up the infobox and add extra unneeded coding to the articles. SeaTerror (talk) 18:01, January 1, 2013 (UTC)

If you remember the pre/postimeskip infobox picture forum, these solutions were proposed already, so we are technically talking about something we already decided (just so you know). Anyway, at least we can do it using just a switch template, like I did in the examples in that forum. In the beginning, I was in favour of using a manga/anime switch rather then a pre/posttimeskip switch, because I don't see why we should keep the first character appearance in the infobox at all costs, so if we revamp the old forum topic, I prefer convert the switches in anime/manga and leave the pretimeskip images in the gallery. However, like ST said, there is the fundamental point which is we do have galleries to gather all kinds of appearance images, so we should also talk if the switch is really necessary because actually it looks like some kind of compromise to solve edit wars at this point rather than a necessity.