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.

Nah. It's a necessity Levi. Stopping edit wars is what makes it needed. The manga is the original work, and belongs in the infobox, along with the anime image. I support getting rid of the pre timeskip option though, because that can just go in the gallery. 03:43, January 2, 2013 (UTC)

I really don't see the point of having this. From what I can tell, it would do nothing but clog up the image section. If this is being done purely to stop edit wars, then I say no. There's a handy thing called the talk page that we can use to prevent these things from happening. 03:51, January 2, 2013 (UTC)

It's not clogging up anything PX. It's so that we have consistency on all the articles. Like I said, the manga does not belong in the gallery, due to being the SOURCE MATERIAL. If we're going to stick the anime in the infobox, then why not the manga too? 03:53, January 2, 2013 (UTC)

Because it adds tabs that we don't need. And we have never had any problems with making the anime appearance standard and placing the manga (colorized) appearance in the gallery section, as shown with Pekoms, Luffy, and Kuma. Anime pictures are usually better for infoboxes because they are colored and have full body shots without anything crowding it in the background. And anyways, anime and manga images are usually close enough together that it causes no confusion to use one image for the two of them. 04:08, January 2, 2013 (UTC)

The tab space would be the same. Rid ourselves of the Pre timeskip tab (because what if there's another timeskip later?), and just make it manga and anime. Put the pre time-skip stuff in the gallery. This is obviously going to need to be polled now probably, but having both in the infobox is the best way to go. 04:11, January 2, 2013 (UTC)

(2 FRIGGIN EDIT CONFLICTS IN A ROW) I don't think we should be using tabs. If we get rid of the pre/post-timeskip switch and replace them with an manga/anime-switch then it will be basically the same thing. Sometimes the anime changes a characters appearance just a little bit or depicts some part of the character incorrectly. If we have the original artwork in the infobox too then you can see what the characters originally looked like and it's only fair.

If we remove the pre/post timeskip switch, then I might be open to this idea, but not both at once. I still think that one image would be good enough to cover anime and manga (changes are usually minor and hardly noticeable, besides color schemes), but I don't really care either way. 04:17, January 2, 2013 (UTC)

And the fact that the anime doesn't draw exactly like Oda's style. But yeah, in the end, I propose the destruction of the pre timeskip tab, and for it to be replaced with the manga tab. 04:19, January 2, 2013 (UTC)

I propose we keep it how it is even if I would absolutely LOVE to get rid of the switch completely. SeaTerror (talk) 07:16, January 2, 2013 (UTC)

Since we have different opinions on this should we try to convince each other or just add a poll? I don't know how it's usually done since I'm not so active in forum/article talk discussions.

@Pacifista: "Anime pictures are usually better for infoboxes because they are colored and have full body shots without anything crowding it in the background." - I disagree, manga coloured are far better because they have shadows and deep colours, anime screenshot looks like they were made with paint, but I guess this is the point why galaxy proposed to do a manga/anime switch. As I said, I agree too, but I don't mind using a single picture too and leave the rest in the gallery, though I still don't see the point in using a gallery tab while the introduction tab is usually short... it's a waste of space, the appearance images should be in the first page (but maybe this another matter). Anyway, the options we have are the same of the old forum. I'd like to wait a bit more before opening a poll, we shouldn't rush things, give a chance to everybody to write their own thoughts.

I don't think it's a good idea. I understand that the manga is the source material is the manga, and that manga images are important, however, I believe that the majority of manga images are not suitable for the infobox. Yes, there are a few manga images that are fully colorized and full body, and those would make excellent infobox pictures. However, those images only exist for a small minority of characters, and most minor characters do not have any manga images that would be appropriate for the infobox. Black and white images are ok, but due to the panel format of manga, full body shots of minor characters often don't exist. Now, since I do think the manga images are still important, I fully endorse them being present in the character's gallery (even if they aren't colorized). I just don't think that we should change this, because it would only look good for major characters, and it would make the majority of our pages look worse. Our current image policy of using the best image (regardless of anime/manga) is totally sufficient, and as long as talk pages are used, it really isn't a problem worth completely overhauling every single character page. That's far too much work to avoid a small bit of argument. I would much rather see people working on more productive projects, such as replacing terrible profile images that we already have instead of uploading more bad profile images. 17:47, January 2, 2013 (UTC)

It's pretty darn simple. If we have two relatively good images of both manga and the anime, we put a switch. Right now, there are lots of character images that aren't full body shots so I don't see your problem there.

We're not supposed to have those not full-body pictures, that's my problem. That's a problem we should be correcting, not using as a reason to add more pictures that aren't in line with the image guidelines. 17:43, January 3, 2013 (UTC)

That's why I said we wouldn't be adding those to the switch. Read my post again.

Bump.

I did not understand some objections about manga images not being suitable for the infobox: let's take a minor character with only a B/W and terrible picture from the manga and one relativity nice from the anime. Sure the anime one is the best one, but if we hypothetically use a switch the anime one will still (can) be the default one and as a matter of fact the profile picture. So I do not understand the worry about the manga image quality, it's will be a secondary image not the first one which is the profile picture, why do you keep worry about the guidelines? I don't think they matter for the secondary picture, because that would still be the best manga picture we have. The point of the switch was using the best images from both the manga and the anime to avoid disputes over which one is better between them themselves. I'm honestly starting to be a bit doubtful over the whole (mis)use of the switch, but I don't see that as a valid argument against such a possibility.