J-Novel Club's own Wikipedia article Up and Running
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@paul-nebeling My kanji isn’t good enough to test the romaji (I’m like first grade level on a good day). Did notice that you list 1 volume in Japan of Kokoro Connect whereas Wikipedia lists it as having 11 on the KC series page. Otherwise looks great, thanks for you hard work this is a solid resource!
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@paul-nebeling Oh, and Gear Drive should be Haguruma Doraibu: Haguruma = Japanese word for gear, and doraibu is drive approximated in hiragana.
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@jaquobus Thanks. Google seems to mess the spaces up on Romaji frequently. It will almost always display isekai as i sekai.
P.S. I got the Kanji from the JNC pages.
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@the-green-death I was having trouble with the Kadokawa titles. Thanks for catching that.
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@paul-nebeling Disclaimer: I don't know any of Wikipedia guidelines, most of words below are born from common sense. My "common" sense.
The Kanji column doesn't make sense because it's not always kanji. I would call it original title instead.Most of titles have a Wikipedia page, so you should link that.
romaji title is unnecessary — it's something that's not clearly defined, not happens to be one of primary titles, and you get a lot of awkward cases in romanization. Last but not least, you're literally putting machine TL in there right now. You really want to keep doing that? (If you do, welcome under spoiler, I guess).
References are full of machine TL.Couple of issues with the original titles: you'd normally want to use something that's listed on amazon pages and/or spelled on the cover in huge letters: IS 〈インフィニット・ストラトス〉, Occultic;Nine etc.
In 「ココロコネクト ヒトランダム」 「ヒトランダム」is a first volume's subtitle. Serie page has that too (who do I @ again? @Sam-Pinansky and @Aimee-Zink ?)
Conversely, 「ゆめにっき・あなたの夢に私はいない」is a full title of Yume Nikki (idk why serie page has 夢日記, no one calls it that).
百錬の覇王と聖約の戦乙女 is missing a character.Romaji notes:
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@_08 Well, I don't believe there's such a thing as bad feedback, so thanks for your inputs. Now let me ask or comment on some of the points you made.
- I believe you're correct that calling it "Kanji" may not be either correct or accurate. Not sure if I'm crazy about calling it "original" though. Compromise with changing it to "Japanese".
- The titles on the main page link to the corresponding Wikipedia pages. Not a hard thing to cut and paste that.
- You really think the Romaji column isn't necessary? You might be right. I really didn't have a good reason for putting it in there, so taking it out wouldn't be painful to me.
- Yes, there's a lot of MT in the references. I know that. I have virtually no Japanese language knowledge. That's why I asked for some help cleaning up the Japanese references. For the record, Wikipedia generally frowns on MT, which puts cleaning that up higher on the list of things to fix.
- The Japanese titles were cut and pasted from the JNC series pages, as reflected by the references. If you see one that I botched the editing on, let me know. If the title on the JNC page is incorrect, there's not much I can do about that.
I appreciate the Romaji corrections, but I think I'm going to take your suggestion and eliminate that column. Keeping the Japanese title makes sense as it can be used to generate a rapid search.
Initially, I tried using references from Amazon, but it's on Wikipedia's blacklist, so those references got blocked. When I got the information from a commercial site, I generally left it unreferenced, with one exception where the only information I could find was on Bookwalker.
Again, thanks for the suggestions. If you have any more, I'll appreciate them.
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@paul-nebeling said in J-Novel Club's own Wikipedia article Up and Running:
Not sure if I'm crazy about calling it "original" though. Compromise with changing it to "Japanese".
I didn't suggest "Japanese" because some of titles are simply English.
You really think the Romaji column isn't necessary?
Adding titles generated by not-so-well-defined rules doesn't really fit into the table containing some simple objective info. Also, most of them could be found if you hover over a link to title's wikipedia page. It would be the other thing if you could easily and reliably list them but that's clearly not the case.
Yes, there's a lot of MT in the references. I know that. I have virtually no Japanese language knowledge.
That's why you just keep the link's title in Japanese, like it's done on lots of other anime-related pages.
The Japanese titles were cut and pasted from the JNC series pages, as reflected by the references.
That's clearly not the case with Occultic;Nine and IS (I'm kinda ok with オカルティック because it would be a bit awkward to have the same title twice but there's no reason to leave IS out). 戦乙女 was fixed a while ago. Yume Nikki has a proper title on volume's and part's page and Kokoroco issue will be fixed after spamming relevant parties hard enough. (also how do you think it's ok to keep the wrong Japanese title because an English publisher listed it wrong)
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@_08 While there is still some room for debate (Japanese publisher's title vs English publisher's Japanese title) I would take "Japanese Title" as meaning "Title in Japan". Weigh grew exceptions, searching with the Japanese title on the JNC page did find the correct title. You're right, I did chop of the "IS" on Infinite Stratos. Now I'm wondering where I did get that title for Occultic;Nine from, because what's on the JNC page is clearly English.
Before I go changing 40+ references, is there someplace I could see a reference using Japanese characters? It would solve my MT issue fairly quickly (by eliminating it).
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@paul-nebeling said in J-Novel Club's own Wikipedia article Up and Running:
is there someplace I could see a reference using Japanese characters?
Grimgar's page, for instance.
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@_08 I see what you mean. I think I'll change them to something similar to that. If think I might have gotten the Japanese title for Occultic;Nine from the Wikipedia page.
Again, thanks for the input.
