Forum talk:Community Café

Chit-Chat
We have a place to talk on less then serious stuff... I hope this works out alright and doesn't cause us too many problems. One-Winged Hawk 08:24, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

I just want to say while this place is quiet, its much nicer then Wikipedia right now. There are too many people beginning to get snobby about things, plus every time we do something we get the 'general anime' rules shoved down our throats and are told 'you can't do it that way!'. I hope it stays that way even when we get more people in. :D One-Winged Hawk 22:20, 25 October 2006 (UTC)


 * It is way to quiet though. I have plenty of time so I've been working on many articles, most notably The Going Merry. I've been adding redirects like crazy. I am surprised that noone thought to redirect Luffy to the proper article, Monkey D. Luffy. We should probably start with early episodes, and create a baseline starting from the Captain Morgan Arc, and work our way up, and add pages as it goes along. So when we get to Captain Kuro's arc, we'll add the Usopp article, and if there arleady is one, improve upon it greatly. But's thats just my 2 Belly!Cody2526 00:53, 26 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Some of the characters mentioned though... I have no clue as to who the hell they are. Some of these characters are going to be rather small, like 4 sentences. :One-Winged Hawk 07:00, 26 October 2006 (UTC)


 * FOr minor characters, we'll probably merge them into the proper Arc page. So someone who's name was mentioned, and they were shown, but not important to the story too much, would probably go on the page for the arc they were in. But in the case of an Organization, such as Baroque Works, they'd go there. IF any characters are major, but belong on that page, like Rob Lucci belongs to CP9, we can link there with a short description. Whats really bothering me though, is havng Statistics in the article. They should be on the side under the picture. I wrote a ton of stuff for the Going Merry, and someone came in, and redid the article from scratch, with less details, and putting statistics on the side. Another case was someone disagreed with the Omake intro, because they misread it, and deleted everything in the article, and rewrote the intro badly. We need to talk about this kind of stuff before we go ahead and change it. thats what talk pages are for. If you disagree with anything, bring it up there and if people agree, by all means, edit the heck out of that part. Just make it better. Cody2526 20:31, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I think even the minor characters should have a page, a stub, because as we've seen recently with Dragon and Garp, you never know when the next piece of info will be revealed.


 * Right now, Wikipedia is buggy... I can't edit things without 50% having a problem and having to re-submit it. I give up with that place completely. One-Winged Hawk 11:38, 28 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Another thing, they complain about speculation on there, yet today I found a speculation about Dragon being one of the 4 emperors... Being a revolutionary... I doubt he is one anyway, and besides... What about their 'We're against speculations?' thing.


 * I'm against speculations myself. In a forum, they have a place, on a encyclopedia, they do not, unless they are a popular theory backed with hard evidence as to 'WHY' many consider it a possibility. But only then, a few theories is all you need, not 30+ or some other stupid number, one or two... With GOOD proven evidence. One-Winged Hawk 11:43, 28 October 2006 (UTC)


 * It would be so much easier to put people in the proper articles. If enough information is available for at the very least about 3 paragraphs, I'd say that warrants an Article. It's easy enough to move them when the time comes.--Cody2526 00:51, 29 October 2006 (UTC)


 * My response is late, but that much I agree on Cody. But I think we can get away with just two. I'm having difficulty writing Gonbe's page, even there he was in a lot of Enies Lobby... He just didn't do anything. Hey... I just noticed it... But I keep writing 'Coby' instead of 'Cody'... Sorry about that.


 * I did have a lot of time put aside for editing today, but me and Joekido had a big fight... I didn't realise we both had such a lot of steam to blow off... Its done with now it seems. I think we've been at each others throats because our personalities seem close and we both have big-headed egos... What one of us accused the other of, the other likewise did the same more or less.


 * I hate the net sometimes... Things just get so serious that way. I hate being serious as it is on wikipedia, but there you have no choice, what with everyone watching you and all. Has anyone noticed, but there have been a lot of IP users there lately. I wish some of them would sign up, it makes things easier since when discussions arise they can enter with some pulling power. A lot of the IP users are the ones putting in edits that don't go with the flow so to speak. The last week, apart from that odd idiot who put some letters shape like something (Okay I'm not actually gonna write it out) nasty, thats it. The anti-vandal bots didn't pick that up.


 * Anyway. The dreaded lurgies are doing their runs on people right now since it got cold here in the UK. Everyone has a cold/flue/sore throat. I've got a throat infection, you don't want one of those... They last for WEEKS! Mine has lasted me a week. Anyone know much about Grand Battle to write an article on it? I did play it but as far as game articles go... I'm not very good in that department. One-Winged Hawk 20:47, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Merry X-Mas
Since this page almost never gets used and this is our only 'talk' section of the site... What better place to say "Merry Christmas everyone!". So from me to my fellow editor I say just that, "Merry Christmas Everyone!". ^-^ One-Winged Hawk 10:54, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Wiki-this and wiki-that
Anyone here still editing on wikipedia? :/

It feels like noobs and non-One Piece fans are controlling those pages more and more every day. And no one wants to discuss changes anymore. When I put a template on every One Piece page... I spent 2-3 days discussing it with everyone. I log on there today and find someone enforced some new ones in place of the one we had without discussion.

Talking makes people understand your actions and explains why you do the things you do... Talking brings in ideas. Without talking, people get annoyed you didn't discuss things first. This is way on Wikipedia I always sound so bossy and uptight. No one talks there! The last time we had a good set of editors on there ready to talk was in the days when we all got fed up and moved here because we got fed up with wikipedia politics.

I got someone to actually discuss templates and page changes and it brought about an agreement on there within an hour. It doesn't take much to talk. I'm just glad everyone on here is starting to talk more and more. You get more problems solved through discussions then just doing stuff! One-Winged Hawk 09:31, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm still on Wikipedia as much as I used to be... I just was never too active on most of the One Piece stuff. XD I'm still checking the Cipher Pol and Galley-La pages daily, though, and fixing stuff when it needs it. --Murasaki 10:18, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I seem to babysit those pages... I spend about an hour a day on them at least. Why I do that I don't know. Its the random Naruto fans and "One Piece Sux! Naruto Rulz!" comments that started it. One-Winged Hawk 10:29, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Another problem with Wikipedia - once you put one page up for deletion delete-happy peeps look for others to delete. I put a unneeded page up for deletion on there and someone else put one of our needed pages up for deleting. We had all this before... Last time we wanted to delete something major. There is a One Piece related page up for discussion right now thats likely to be lost because none of those who fought to sae it last time are around. One-Winged Hawk 09:05, 24 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Ah... Another low-down on wikipedia. Someone always gets upset whenever you do anything. I need a break from there for a few days. That last one hit Justyn, I think he hates me now for siding with a merge-happy mod. But the thing is... I wanted that to happen what happen, but not on that scale. I'm seriously going to leave wikipedia to the politicians and NOT get involved with the mass discussions in future.... Stick to the edits I know and not the ones that hurt people. T_T One-Winged Hawk 21:57, 16 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I kinda saw what was happening there and I must say it is a wee bit too much. I kinda don't think it was a wise idea to merge alot of things like how the Avatar pages are set up. While they are relatively good page, the major difference between the Avatar pages and the One Piece pages is the story and characters themselves. Avatar's a tv show( A good one I might add) whose info is relatively small. The story will most likely span only three seasons and only few characters stand out enough to be called major. One Piece on the other hand, has more info than Avatar. The story spans more than 400 chapters and 300 episodes. There are also far more major characters that really stand out than in Avatar. In proportion, One Piece can't be handled like Avatar due to it's size. I think it would've been better to handle things like the Dragon Ball pages than the Avatar pages. That's my opinion though.Mugiwara Franky 02:25, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't hate you Angel. Yes, I'm upset; but by no means do I hate you. And if anyone wants to get involved, >>HERE IS A LINK TO THE DISCUSSION<<.


 * Yeah I looked around at some of the bigger Animes, but Naruto and DB weren't two of them (I've come to know Naruto pages as "those pages that no one bothers to try and keep within the Wikipedia rules and from which spawn half our OP related vandals"). Next time I'll look at the DB page... Its a well established set of pages with a lot of people supporting (to be honest, I am kicking myself right now after its been mentioned...). It wasn't the Avatar pages just I looked at BTW, as I said I've looked at lots, Avatar was the first example that came to mind. Mainly because I have a poor memory and forgot what other pages I looked at (lazy and bad memory... How do I get anything done... Wait... I don't... Thats why we still haven't seen my Main page designs yet. XD).


 * I've taken into the advice thats been given out. TTN doesn't realise the amount of pressure/demand he puts on people in his posts. I think thats why I've witnessed sore faces with him on Wikipedia. I'd like this to be forgotten now. Last post on this here. This wasn't a bad thing, not a complaint, just needed to cool down from it. One-Winged Hawk 08:00, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

News on 4Kids
I keep hearing mixed rumours on 4Kids, anyone know where the dub is at with them? One-Winged Hawk 09:05, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Here's what I've gathered:
 * The dubbed episodes go up either to or through Jaya (I don't remember which at the moment...) In the US, they're going to begin reshowing it again, but as they left off in the middle of Arabasta, they still have a lot of older episodes to show.
 * Supposedly, according to what emails have been sent, 4Kids stopped dubbing (either before or after Jaya, I think it was before but I don't remember). However, they still have the license until 2009, and are still releasing DVD's. So, even if they really have stopped dubbing, they are (at least at the moment) holding on to the license.
 * Supposedly, according to... um, I believe emails again, Toei is interested in trying to find another group to dub the show. But that's as far as that goes, there's currently no other info on whether or not that's actually happening or what... And with the contract 'till 2009, even if they did find someone else willing, if 4Kids wants to hold onto the license, I believe that even Toei can't do anything about it...


 * So, that seems to be the situation. The accounts have been changed as they go to other places and get posted on other forums, but, as the people who sent the emails and whatnot are on AP (I seem to remember Quexinos being one of the people involved, but I'm not 100% sure on that), their version of everything is (presumably) the most accurate. But there's no announcement by any company involved, so... it makes it difficult to know what exactly is going on. XD --Murasaki 10:26, 24 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Whats thrown me off is that new eps are due. Really confusing me now. I was up to date until then with the debate. One-Winged Hawk 23:13, 24 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Toei owns the license and the rights to lend that license. They can technically break the contract legally if they wanted but they usually don't do that. The DVDs will stop coming once the license expires probably. If Toei feels they won't be making a major profit from them and it'd be better to find another dubbing company, then they will not renew the license. Both Toei and 4Kids need to agree on the contract, and then sign it, which means that if Toei for any reason decides to take the license away, the best thing would be to just not renew it. Cody2526 00:23, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Jumping the Gun
Amazing... When Hogback was announced everyone was in no rush to add info to wikipedia or here... Now a Shichibukai is announced everyone is rushing to add him everywhere. On wikipedia they abandoned a 2 month practice of not adding chapter rumours. And here they are breaking our rules about not releasing until chapter is out.

I still don't get it... Suddenly mention a Shichibukai and everyone is hyped... Even the weekly chapter pre-release sniplets are more. Last week 2 pics, this week something like 8 or 9. O.o' One-Winged Hawk 16:17, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Other sites like Arlong Park
Recently, it appears that someone completely screwed up the forum over there. I hate people like that. Anyway, can anyone direct me to any other site where I can get the latest info and possibly the latest chapter raws. I think I kinda need a wider range of sources other than Arlong Park in case something like this or worse happens in the future.Mugiwara Franky 07:31, 30 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Don't know of any other sites, but that's all done now, it was just a April Fool's joke that escalated too soon. XD Here's the topic:

http://apforums.net/showthread.php?t=12507 --Murasaki 07:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Should have asked me to do it. I LOVE April fool's day, know just how to be a dictator, and know when to escalate things. Too bad I won't be able to trust Oceanizer within 2 and a half months surrounding April Fool's Day for another decade. I told them I'd gladly handle things next year, I doubt they'll let me do it though, but I can hope. I'm already starting to make a list of awesome jokes. If you ask me he went too far when he banned so many people. Cody2526 10:05, 30 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Ahhh.... I missed everything to do with the April Fool's joke! Dam you time zones, you and your evil earth spinning ways!


 * I do agree we need more sources...


 * Ah, this reminds me of my note we don't advertise this dump enough. Seriously, we need editors so lets get a banner ad done, contact sites and make deals to host links between sites if they host ours. We could do all that on our main page with no probs!


 * Oh, I just don't feel like editing today... It was the last day of uni before Easter so I'm now on a 2 week break. I feel like partying more then anything. Who wants some biscuits and beer? Lol. :P One-Winged Hawk 18:02, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

FUNimation bids well
Ah! Another dubbing company has pulled the reigns to One Piece! Looks like we have some things to edit now here. I'm happy with this announcement, FUNimation aren't the best dubbers in the world, but they have a lot of experience and are about mid level on the dubbing quality level. ^-^

Is everyone ready for the mad rush of info? One-Winged Hawk 20:40, 13 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Yep, I heard about this. Personally, I would have preferred Bandai to have gotten One Piece, but oh well. - BattleFranky202 01:13, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Your VERY OWN Picture-Guy
Hello. As you have noticed,I have uploaded over 50 images.Regard me as you semi-official picture uploader. If there is a pic missing, then tell me and I'll try and find it-most of them are on the wikipedia, but for those that aren't I go to the Simple Gallery, or a german anime screenshot page. However, I have problems, because I have not been able to find any pages with the screencaps of episode 151 and for the current episodes- which is not SO bad, but it only means I'll have to get the screenshot from the manga. I WILL but you will have to understand that at times the images may be a bit low quality, depending on the scan.

To get back to the point-report a missing image/pic/flag and I'm on my way. Just put it into my talk page with the title "Picture Request 1(and following numbers)".

User:New Babylon

Honey, I'm HOOOME!
Guess who's back?! After a long absence I've FINALLY returned. I've been extremely busy with other...random stuff. Anyways. I see you guys have been running the site well. How's everyone doing? Cody2526 06:23, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Welcome back Cody, I was starting to worry..

Joekido 06:44, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Gasp! Cody's back!


 * Dogpiles on Cody*

Good to see you again! :D One-Winged Hawk 13:40, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Icehunter Filler arc
Anyone care to translate the the names and stuff found here on Toei's One Piece site? All I know is that the fat guy in the loincloth is called Don Achino and he was created by Oda specifically for this filler.Mugiwara Franky 06:59, 23 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Trouble with fillers is they don't interest people much... We may be in the same boat on this one as others, waiting for dubbers or so forth to translate it. :/ One-Winged Hawk 09:57, 23 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I can try to translate more later, but from what I can tell, the guy with orange hair and chains at his waste is named Pazuru. He is the leader of the Pazuru pirates. I am not very fast at translating, but I'll try to get some more stuff after school tomorrow. --Superneoking 02:50, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
 * [b]Edit:[/b] The blonde pirate is named Gairu. --Superneoking 02:54, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

A little help
On Arlong Park... Where is the list of staff? Every other forum I find it easily and quickly. But on AP its not obvious. I'll be kicking myself when someone tells me and its right in front of my eyes. I'm trying to help NB out here get onto AP, but first I need to know if someone banned him or something. I know he double posted a few times which did tick a few peeps off, but thats not usually a concern they'd ban you over.

If he isn't banned and the Admins don't know whats wrong, I have to contact the guys who created the design of our forum... Whatever they are called (name slipped my mind). :/ One-Winged Hawk 18:45, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

http://apforums.net/showgroups.php

Joekido 22:06, 23 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Ah thanks Joekido! :D One-Winged Hawk 22:41, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Whoa...
I've looked at the Spoiler Rules page and checked over the history page... You know I don't even recognise my own edits there? I'm reading it and it totally doesn't hit me I wrote some of that text until I read the history page and see, yes I did in deed write that. I get this a lot on the wikia, a lot of the pages just don't seem like me at all. Weird. O.o' One-Winged Hawk 22:36, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

How shameful
Looking at the wikipedia pages, their disgustinging bad now they've been "wiki-fied". I can't say they work, because they DON'T. I know there was problems before, but badly merged articles don't work. I'm not saying it couldn't have worked when every page was merged, but how they are currently laid out doesn't work.

I don't regret leaving that mess, but I'm disappointed that they've become THIS aweful. Well, thats wikipedia for you and I'm glad I'm not a part of it. On the other hand, since THEIR pages are so bad, ours look so much BETTER in comparison now. :-) --One-Winged Hawk 22:43, 19 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree, I just looked at wikipedia a bit and saw how much better these pages are. BTW Thanks for telling me about this place, it looks ok. You were right, not many people use it. It's a lot smaller than I thought it would be...Vik1piece 23:16, 15 October 2008 (UTC)


 * We're getting better. The page at wikipedia saddens me now.  t should never have been allowed to be degraded like that.  I'm not going to argue its restoration, if people wanted it how it was they should have supported me when I was fighting to save it.  When I backed out, that was it.  I've visited one in the last 2 months, that was this morning just to see the horror show it has become.  :-/  One-Winged Hawk 13:02, 19 November 2008 (UTC)