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| Gonna have to remain in disagreement about the game naming thing, I guess. Plenty of professional journals, and even some of the official sites, are perfectly happy to use the contractions.}} | | Gonna have to remain in disagreement about the game naming thing, I guess. Plenty of professional journals, and even some of the official sites, are perfectly happy to use the contractions.}} |
| {{ENX|time=23:14, 12 January 2015 (UTC)|text=Honestly, the only reason why I have an issue with reading "they" or "them" when paired with singular subjects is because of this uncomfortable feeling that rises inside me and does not subside until I've made it go away. If you could, please, state what the purpose of the ability captions would be in your eyes, if we absolutely have to have them. If we can justify the use of singular they in the MoS, I have no problem using it. In fact, I quite like how you wrote the sentence about Curaga under your little "S/b" section. It will just take getting used to, that's all.
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| As for the game titles, no, we do not have to remain in disagreement, since you are right in what you said. However, my only concern is that in cases like ''Birth by Sleep'', people may get confused and think we are linking to the secret ending of ''KHIIFM''. It's a stretch, I know, but still, one must consider these things.}}
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| {{ANX219|time=02:12, 13 January 2015 (UTC)|text='''They:''' When we craft a theme for a piece of literature, we must avoid using second person or first person. My teacher looks down upon using "they" as for a singular neuter pronoun, so I alternate to "one." "One must.." This word could be a solution but might get confusing when people read it, and this isn't Shakespearian times. <s>But my classmate is to be admired as he wrote an entire short story without using pronouns. </s> I'd side with "the user" or "the player" but I do not mind "they." It just sounds awkward at some points even when I use it on a regular basis. (who speaks perfect english anyway?)<br>
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| '''Captions:''' I think it should be "the user" because-- I propose that there could be a short list of KH characters that can perform that ability in the lil introductory paragraph at the beginning over each article, or a short list near the beginning, but after the first paragraph. If only one person can use it, use that character's name. (<s>Now I see why this is a problem x.x </s>) If we choose to choose character names, we should include the differences between each character's casting.
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| ::EX: "Curaga allows Aqua to raise her Keyblade above her head as leaves wrap around her body."
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| ::And then: "Ventus twirls his keyblade in an upward motion, a green spotlight shines overhead."
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| It looks kinda lame, I don't have a tendency to use the word "as" various times in short instances. AWKWARD<br>
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| '''Game Titles:''' I'd prefer if full game names to be used only at the beginning of the introductory paragraph. Using the shorten names w/o "KH" appears more casual. We're kind of uptight about this, we are an encyclopedia of information, and tend to repeat necessary information in case the reader is not fully informed. If we're going with a more casual encyclopedia, shorten name; If we stick to the formal, leave the long title.<br>
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| '''Top Corner Icons:''' It's up to the decision of the majority who wins the battle on this one, chronological in story or chronological in release. The website contributes to the in-game world with ability articles and such but also adds to the real world with merchandise and the card game. It depends on world you've edited the most on. I advocate release chronology for all of the articles, which makes more sense to me.<br>
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| '''Navigation:''' Also a majority decision. Templates that include "Introduced in" should be in chrono by release, because they are introduced consecutively in real time. For other templates--story order, if any.
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| My turn:
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| *Re: "they": I don't feel I need to argue much more than anyone else has already done, so I will just say that I find "they" to be more than satisfactory. While we do want to obey the rules of grammar, we are not striving to be great examples of the highest levels of grammatical propriety, and readability should be a top priority, and "his or her" makes a sentence feel clunky and annoying. Since "they" is acceptable, we should accept it, even if college professors wouldn't be happy about it.
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| *Re: captions: Captions, if used, should be used for information not included in the article (e.g., appearances). I don't see a problem with using characters' names unless it implies exclusion of another character. (So, say "the user" for Firaga, but name names for Break Time [@Kryten, I don't understand your argument about Break Time. How would you word that caption?]) If Riku is the only one to use Maelstrom, there's no reason why using him name would be unacceptable. "The user" would also be acceptable, but I personally think it would sound better to use a name in this case. For abilities in multiple games, like Tornado, unless you're going to say specifically "'''In KHCOM''', when using Tornado, Sora..." saying the name of the character is silly, because of the exclusion thing, since Ven uses it in BBS. (I don't know if I would say the same about, say, Faith, since the versions in different games are different.) If we start cutting down on images, the exclusion factor will become more important, making "the user" necessary for more images.
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| **In short, if you intend to use one image to describe multiple characters' or games' versions, I would most likely agree with using "the user", but otherwise, I like the sound of using names.
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| **I agree with Kryten about not going overboard with caption lengths, though. Don't feel obligated to spell out every small detail of a visual.
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| ***On a related note, if we do decide for minimalism, I would be okay with just, for example, "Thundaga" or "Slide Dash in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep".
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| *Re: Kryten's Sidenote 1: What the hell is wrong with using "''Birth by Sleep''"? (And "''Chain of Memories''", and "''Dream Drop Distance''"?) We used to be okay with that, weren't we? '''Obviously, the first time in a paragraph(?) we should use the full title, but it's not necessary to use it every single time.'''
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| *Re: Kryten's Sidenote 2: Agree. Also, be careful about misusing "allow", because when it comes to visuals, that just makes the captions sound really weird.
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| *Re: nav templates: Game release order. That's what the custom (if you can call it that) has been for the longest time, and I believe it makes the most sense.
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| Sorry if this is coming out as rambling, I am running on fumes at the moment.
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| --{{User:Neumannz/SigTemplate}} 05:19, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
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| {{KrytenKoro|Captions: Just to clarify my view, I'm saying we don't need captions at all unless there's something interesting to say about the graphic. "Who uses this" and "Which game is this used in" are already implicitly covered by the placement of the image and the information in the article.
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| Break Time: I would have three different images, each with a short blurb like "Break Time allows Ventus to generate an aura of vitality by pulling out a slingshot and sniping Mr. Foxworthy." Or, you know, whatever's appropriate.
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| Names: I'm fine with specifying names if that doesn't provide a false impression. This would mean, however, that the editor has to ensure that the technique is not used by anyone else. As far as "in BBS" etc. goes, I ''really'' don't like specifying that unless the caption goes on to describe a detail unique to BBS. So, "Riku and Mickey" for Dark Maelstrom would be fine.
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| Gametitles: Would it be possible to create some kind of sitewide legend key for acronyms? We already use them as footnotes, and the official sites/books do list official acronyms for most of the games. Something like the sitenotice, but maybe hovering and smaller. If, however, the community is absolutely averse to using acronyms, then it should still be possible to use "Birth by Sleep", as the secret video is "Birth by sleep".}}
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| I don't really feel like getting into Wikipolitics, but I'll just say that as of 2.5 English, the secret video is indeed "Birth by Sleep" with that exact capitalisation. [[User:Ultima Spark|<span style="color:#002395 ;">Ultima Spark</span>]] ''[[User talk:Ultima Spark|<span style="color:#007FFF ;">(talk)</span>]]'' [[File:Lofty Fantasy KH3D.png|17px]] 15:58, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
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| ::Well scheize.{{User:KrytenKoro/Sig}} 17:17, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
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| :::Here's the difference: "Birth by Sleep" the video versus ''Birth by Sleep'' the game. Remember that game titles are in italics. And I think it's alright to use quotes for the video. That's how we could differentiate the two. {{KeybladeSpyMaster/Sig}} 18:06, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
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| {{RikutheBloody|time={{User:Master Riku the Bloody/Sig1}} 19:12, 13 January 2015 (UTC)|angry=What does everyone mean by navi templates? I know what one is, but what are we talking about here? Also, I refer back to ANX219's quote, using "one". My teacher says that when referring to a non-gender, use "he". I don't see any problems. Its not like any guest is going to stare at the picture captions all day, or say anything about being sexist. Right? We should just use "himself", and "he". I heard that was the absent of genders. ~Love Riku.}}
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| {{TheFifteenthMember|time={{User:TheFifteenthMember/Sig1}} 19:51, 13 January 2015 (UTC)|persuade=Responses:
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| *'''Pronoun:''' "One" is actually a viable pronoun (and actually ''one'' that my friend suggested to me), but isn't that usually used if the sentence begins with the subject of "one"? And by that, I mean this. Compare: "X allows the user to raise the Keyblade above one's head" and "X allows one to raise the Keyblade above one's head". All in all, I still hold that "they" is the most appropriate pronoun to use.
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| *'''Captions:''' Agreed that character names are used if the command is exclusive; otherwise we go with "the player".
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| *'''Game titles:''' In a forum long long ago, we already agreed that we could use shortened names (''Kingdom Hearts'', ''Chain of Memories'', ''Birth by Sleep'' etc.) as long as the full name has already been used in that section/page once. When I said "in full", I meant not using the "BBS" abbreviation which I still don't think we should do.}}
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| {{KrytenKoro|Without wearing too much of a social justice hat, there's ample academic consensus on a "default he" promoting internal sexism. Wearing my pedant hat, I also don't like using "he" if you can be referring to a woman.
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| "One" just sounds...incredibly pretentious, especially for possessives, and is best used with imperatives anyway.}}
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| {{ANX219|time=02:32, 15 January 2015 (UTC)|text=One is always going to sound stuck up. (Is there a pun there or..?)}}
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