Forum:Official Anime/Manga Policy

I can't be the only one who thinks "Anime vs Manga" image talk pages are redundant, pointless, and annoying. Everywhere you look, an image war is taking place between people who think the anime version looks better and people who think the manga looks better. The argument is entirely based on preference, so neither side as a logical point to make besides "Look at it. It's ugly". It goes on and on until somebody makes a poll. Then the exact same users vote and the majority wins. It takes forever, and it's all a big waste of time because the outcome is the same for every individual image! I say we edit the image guidelines with a new policy. This policy will read something like "When uploading an image, always use the (either anime or manga) version unless it fails to depict the description". We can decide whether to us anime or manga later, but for now, who's in favor of having this policy? 04:01, August 13, 2013 (UTC)

Discussion
It's not always about preference. Certain abilities and such are depicted wrongly in the anime, so we have to use the manga. Sometimes, stuff gets censored, in which case we use the manga.

It's not possible to have a site policy on things like this, because different people will have differing opinions on every image. You can see this because sometimes a person will vote for the anime image, and sometimes they will vote for the manga image. There's also no way to classify whether the image depicts the image "accurately" absolutely, since some people will believe that certain images are always better as anime images, no matter what. We have to use the image talk pages when there is a dispute between them. It's the only way that will work. 04:06, August 13, 2013 (UTC)

that would be good but we need to define what would fail to describe a scene otherwise people will just challenge any image they dont like-- 04:07, August 13, 2013 (UTC)

It's impossible to define that Canuck. The current system where it goes to a talk page is perfect. There were a giant influx of polls and such because older images were being challenged, but it has mostly calmed down now, with us having the occasional poll every few weeks now. 04:08, August 13, 2013 (UTC)

the talk page system isnt perfect, some people dont go into discussions about images unbiasedly and purposely go against the opinions of people they dont like or just side with their friends-- 04:12, August 13, 2013 (UTC)

Either way, it's still not possible to define at all. 04:14, August 13, 2013 (UTC)