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Proposed split of List of Pokémon anime characters

Inactive talk page over at List of Pokémon anime characters, so I'm putting it here as well. (Please respond at the source page, linked directly below)

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Nomination of Bleach season 2 for featured list removal

I have nominated Bleach season 2 for featured list removal. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. RunningTiger123 (talk) 01:57, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bleach season 3 has also been nominated for featured list removal; you are encouraged to join the discussion. RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:30, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bleach season 4 has also been nominated for featured list removal; you are encouraged to join the discussion. RunningTiger123 (talk) 22:38, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bleach season 5 has also been nominated for featured list removal; you are encouraged to join the discussion. RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:51, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bleach season 6 has also been nominated for featured list removal; you are encouraged to join the discussion. RunningTiger123 (talk) 20:55, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GA for Ten no Hate Made – Poland Hishi - still looking for someone who could help with Japanese sources

This is being reviewed for GA, I expect it to pass. But I still would like to find someone interested in this enough to help check Japanese sources - for now this is based solely on Polish (since English don't exist; the manga was a big hit in Poland but has never been officially released in English). It would be interesting to learn what reception manga got in Japan, but that's beyond my ability to write about. Would anyone here be interested in helping out? (I expect there's not that much - the manga doesn't have a ja wiki article, either). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:57, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to be a contradiction between the Japanese GFantasy wikipedia page and the English Wikipedia Page?

I posted this on the Gangan comics wikipedia Talk page as well, but I figured it might be helpful to post this suggestion on this talk page too. There's contradictory information about GFantasy's editorial demographic between the English and Japanese Wikipedia articles/sections on it. The Japanese wikipedia page for GFantasy magazine lists the editorial demographic as unisex middle and high school students (中・高校生男女), while the english section for GFantasy on the Gangan comics page says its editorial demographic is Shonen (少年). Additionally, the source used to cite this statement of the magazine being in the shonen editorial demographic is a blog post where the comments under the blog dispute the magazine being under the shonen editorial demographic. This does not serve as robust evidence to support the statement that GFantasy Magazine is a shonen magazine, which is in contradiction to the Japanese article on it. This seems like a conflict that should be addressed to make the Gangan comics wikipedia page as accurate as possible. AlexBW0524 (talk) 04:11, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The demographic of this magazine has come up before. The source the article uses is from Manga Bookshelf, which the project considers to be reliable. Additionally, Manga News and Mechademia: Second Arc, Vol. 6, User Enhanced (2011), pp. 81 (a peer-reviewed journal) both describe Monthly GFantasy as a Shōnen magazine. Meanwhile, the Japanese Wikipedia is not a source per WP:CIRCULAR (just because they state something doesn't mean we have to as well) and the Japanese page currently has no source for that statement to begin with, so I don't see any problem with calling it a Shōnen magazine. Link20XX (talk) 05:17, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for bringing up the Manga News and Mechademia sources! One issue with citing the Manga Bookshelf blog specifically is, in the comments of the cited blog article, the author Melinda Beasi says she, herself, used the fact that the English wikipedia article section on GFantasy describing it as a Shonen magazine to inform her blog post. Thus, using her article as the supporting source for the statement that GFantasy is a shonen magazine, when she herself used the english wikipedia article to conclude that GFantasy was a shonen work, indicates that some other citation should be used instead. (This is the link to the blog post with her comment stating this in the comments section: https://mangabookshelf.com/2010/11/05/fanservice-friday-a-girls-gfantasy/)

Here is the direct quote I'm referencing from her comment in the comments section on the blog:

"Thank you for coming by!

Can you tell me if that has always been the case? I realize as someone who does not speak Japanese, my ability to research this is limited. But English Wikipedia articles for the magazine & indeed for every single title serialized in it, past or present, list the demographic as shonen. That seems like a huge disconnect.

Indeed, every single thing I can find about the magazine in English indicates it is shonen, though I’ll grant that there is very little to be found overall, which was part of the frustration that led me to write this article. :)

http://comipedia.com/magazine/gangan-fantasy-gfantasy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangan_Comics#Monthly_GFantasy

http://www.mangaupdates.com/publishers.html?pubname=GFantasy" AlexBW0524 (talk) 05:55, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Another interesting source I found when looking is this article by Erica Friedman, a noted anime critic, which discusses how Monthly GFantasy's demographic shows the issues with using that system. In a somewhat related note, I'm surprised the English Wikipedia doesn't have articles for the Square Enix magazines. Based on this discussion, it seems like there might be enough to create at least a Monthly GFantasy article. Link20XX (talk) 17:20, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the additional article! I'll definitely try to get around to changing the citation on the GFantasy section with the sources you provided as they offer better support of the magazine's categorization in this instance/context (I also found the Mechademia article an interesting read!). On a side note, it seems like GFantasy is in a similar situation to Comic Gene, just without explicitly stating that they're "shonen for girls" like Gene does. I'm a bit inexperienced in article creation, but it would probably be worthwhile to begin drafting a Monthly GFantasy magazine article. AlexBW0524 (talk) 18:48, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]