Forum:Literary Technique pages: delete

Joekido has created many pages that are essentially unnecessary and highly unrelated with One Piece. Those eight literary technique pages (and the Supernatural Abilities that he also created, above others if I am missing any) are not needed, since they are not part of the storyline. They are merely telling how authors write a story, and do not actually function within the story like a bounty or Devil Fruit. Please think about whether these pages should remain or be deleted. Yatanogarasu 01:24, January 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * On a related issue, I think that Seiyū, Voice Actors, and Production Companies and all related pages should be eradicated as well, as they are too vague in relation to the storyline itself. Yatanogarasu 01:24, January 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * The latter were created in good faith, but never took off ground. The first half, yeah, thats a "Joekido page" he means well, the overkeeness just backfires every so often.


 * As for Joekido's lot, just sort out if theres ground for delete and move on. Every so often, he gets something right and you have to admit its worth keeping. As annoying as these kind of pages are, patience with him can pay off sometimes. ^_^' One-Winged Hawk 01:33, January 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * I think the literary technique pages should be kept. On Oda's page it said that this wikia is dedicated to not only OP but Oda's other works as well. I think that can be extended to include how he writes the story, and although they haven't been stated in the manga directly, there are those literary devices. Going Merry's final act was a deus ex machina, Blackbeard showing up at Marineford was a plot twist. I think they are relevant.DancePowderer 01:41, January 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * I think the literary technique pages should be kept. On Oda's page it said that this wikia is dedicated to not only OP but Oda's other works as well. I think that can be extended to include how he writes the story, and although they haven't been stated in the manga directly, there are those literary devices. Going Merry's final act was a deus ex machina, Blackbeard showing up at Marineford was a plot twist. I think they are relevant.DancePowderer 01:41, January 29, 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure how I feel about these. Whenever examples from One Piece are used they can be pretty interesting... Actually I have a problem with some other pages that that I feel have even less of a reason to be on here. Like Captain Hook and other misc. pirates. I don't understand why we don't just link to other sites in the "external links" section of whatever it's being referred from, when those other sites are far more likely to have detailed information about those various characters/people... Anyway, the voice actors and production pages should be kept. They're still an integral part of One Piece, and I think they may be expanded eventually. Where as the other Literary devices page... hm, maybe they could all be merged into one? -- YazzyDream  02:18, January 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * Back then, we didn't have the knowledge of external links/wikipedia linking. Now we do. One-Winged Hawk 10:26, January 29, 2011 (UTC)

The Supernatural Abilities page seem redundant but the Literary Technique articles look useful. The Seiyū and Voice Actors pages are related to the anime part of the series so they are relevant, as are the Production Companies for both. I think that I share YazzyDream's opinion above, regarding the misc. pages like Hook! Those pages represent the real problem and should be linked externally like we've always done so many times before. MasterDeva 08:55, January 29, 2011 (UTC)

Right, SeaTerror is the one who said that the literary techniques should be deleted, but he has yet to make any contribution to this forum, so should we wait for him and some other opinions, or just start voting? Yatanogarasu 08:59, January 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * L.Techinque is a wasteful category considering pretty much everything in it is stuff that is unness. to the wikia. Honestly, everyone should either know what a flashback is, or we can link to wikipedia via it.  They were all started in good faith but not all of them should stay.  Things like this can actually be lumped into one article if need be; also this kind of thing isn't really what our wikia is for.  One-Winged Hawk 10:29, January 29, 2011 (UTC)