[OOC][Info]Nothing Better Than This Wiki, part II

[Bob Schroeck]

Not really. The Google Fonts are all of a kind in each section.

[robkelk]

So much for that idea... but I recall that neither of us use Chrome. It might be different in that browser.

[Black Aeronaut]

Nope. Doesn't work in Chrome, either. The fonts need to be either locally installed or embedded on the wiki.

[robkelk]

Doesn't look like there's any way to embed them on the wiki - the extension that I knew about that would make that happen is obsolete.

Ah, well. I'll leave the markup in place on the off-chance readers have the fonts installed.

[Black Aeronaut]

We could always put up a page with links to download the fonts. Kinda like, "For the best experience in perusing our works, we strongly recommend installing these free and open-source fonts from this reputable and safe website..."

[robkelk]

from this reputable and safe website

Well... it's Google.

[robkelk]

Two examples are enough for a group, right?

Characters who are ghosts, spirits, or other incorporeal beings can now be tagged with {{spirit}} - so far, we have Manami Kuroha and Nadeshiko Kinomoto.

[robkelk]

If two examples are enough for a category, a half-dozen examples is even better, right? New tag {{Yamato Nadeshiko}}

[robkelk]

Because somebody kinda-sorta hinted at it, I think... Extension:MultiBoilerplate is now active on the wiki. Special:Boilerplates has the list.

[robkelk]

Found heights for Nao Okuda and Sumire Saito - fan art, but that had to have been based on something - so I added them to their writeups. which means that the only girl from Wakaba Girls who still doesn't have a height listed is Jun.

[robkelk]

Redirects are a thing because some people and places have more than one name, or are described in non-obvious places, or because there's more than one way to romanize a Japanese name. (They do not exist to get around spelling errors.)

Have we missed any? Here's a list of what we have:

Academy Individual →‎ Rikou Takitsubo
Aeka Masaki →‎ Ayeka Masaki
Alph →‎ Arf
Ayumu Kasuga →‎ Osaka
Bob's place →‎ Douglass Gardens Apartments
CereCere →‎ Cere-Cere
Characters →‎ Category:Characters
Chibi-Usa →‎ Usagi Chiba
Chibiusa →‎ Usagi Chiba
Deimos →‎ Rei Hino#Allies: Phobos and Deimos
Endymion →‎ Mamoru Chiba
Good Neighbour System →‎ Good Neighbor System
JunJun →‎ Jun-Jun
Kaji →‎ Ryoji Kaji
Kero-chan →‎ Kerberos
Malleable Causality →‎ A User's Guide to the Metacontinuity#Malleable Causality
Mayumi Osaka →‎ Naru Osaka#Family members: Mayumi and Naruru
Meltdowner →‎ Shizuri Mugino
Mimi Misaka →‎ Misaka Misaka
Misaka 10032 →‎ Niiko Misaka
Misaka 10339 →‎ Kokono Misaka
Misaka 13337 →‎ Lita Misaka
Misaka 13577 →‎ Nana Misaka
Misaka 19090 →‎ Rei Misaka
Misaka Imouto →‎ Niiko Misaka
Moonlight Knight →‎ Mamoru Chiba
Naruru Osaka →‎ Naru Osaka#Family members: Mayumi and Naruru
Neo-Queen Serenity →‎ Usagi Tsukino
PallaPalla →‎ Palla-Palla
Phobos →‎ Rei Hino#Allies: Phobos and Deimos
Railgun →‎ Mikoto Misaka
Risky →‎ Risky and Safety
Ruiko Donaldson →‎ Ruiko Saten
Safety →‎ Risky and Safety
Sailor Ceres →‎ Cere-Cere
Sailor Chibi-Moon →‎ Usagi Chiba
Sailor Chibimoon →‎ Usagi Chiba
Sailor Juno →‎ Jun-Jun
Sailor Jupiter →‎ Makoto Kino
Sailor Mars →‎ Rei Hino
Sailor Mercury →‎ Ami Mizuno
Sailor Moon →‎ Usagi Tsukino
Sailor Neptune →‎ Michiru Kaioh
Sailor Pallas →‎ Palla-Palla
Sailor Pluto →‎ Setsuna Meioh
Sailor Saturn →‎ Hotaru Tomoe
Sailor Uranus →‎ Haruka Ten'oh
Sailor Venus →‎ Minako Aino
Sailor Vesta →‎ Ves-Ves
Small Lady →‎ Usagi Chiba
The 2016 Halloween Party →‎ Halloween in Another World
There's Nothing Better! →‎ Index Page
Tuxedo Kamen →‎ Mamoru Chiba
Tuxedo Mask →‎ Mamoru Chiba
VesVes →‎ Ves-Ves
Washuu-chan →‎ Washuu Hakubi
Yamina Micah Rhodes →‎ Benjamin Rhodes
Yomi Mizuhara →‎ Koyomi Mizuhara

[robkelk]

Redirects are a thing because some people and places have more than one name, or are described in non-obvious places, or because there's more than one way to romanize a Japanese name. (They do not exist to get around spelling errors.)

Have we missed any?

Answering my own question:

Archer →‎ Shirou Emiya (Servant)
Assassin →‎ Sakaki Kojirou
Berserker →‎ Heracles
Caster →‎ Medea of Colchis
Lancer →‎ Cú Chulainn
Rider →‎ Medusa
Saber →‎ Artoria Pendragon

[Black Aeronaut]

With Aeka, that should be flipped around. Pioneer officially came out and said that the romanization of "Ayeka" was strictly so that English speakers would have an easier time of pronouncing her name. Of course, now that Nihongo and its quirks are becoming more well known, this is less of an issue these days.

[robkelk]

Note to self: Get numbers from these for character pages on the wiki

• https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/1432668
  
• https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/1669312 (less useful because some characters aren't standing up straight)
  
• https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/3444629 and its sibling posts
  
• https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/133105
  
• https://www.celebheights.com/ (for Firefly, assuming the characters are the same height as the actors)
  

[robkelk]

Is this something we have a use for on ATT? (Maybe on Character subpages?)

It's certainly something we can use on the TNB wiki - see the Sailor Senshi page for an example.

(And if anybody happens to have episode 150 at ready access - my copy is in storage - feel free to sort the Amazoness Quartet in the order that they were introduced.)

[robkelk]

With Aeka, that should be flipped around.  Pioneer officially came out and said that the romanization of "Ayeka" was strictly so that English speakers would have an easier time of pronouncing her name.  Of course, now that Nihongo and its quirks are becoming more well known, this is less of an issue these days.

Finally got around to fixing this one.

[robkelk]

Note to self: Get numbers from these for character pages on the wiki

• https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/1432668
  
• https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/1669312 (less useful because some characters aren't standing up straight)
  
• https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/3444629 and its sibling posts
  
• https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/133105
  
• https://www.celebheights.com/ (for Firefly, assuming the characters are the same height as the actors)
  

Wow, the guy who runs celebheights.com really needs to learn about significant digits... Meh. Math has been re-done and guesstimates have been made.

[robkelk]

Metalballstudios - Mechas (piloted robots) size comparison

Of course we can use this in TNB. The mecha that Ruiko got for Christmas is roughly 9.1 m tall, which puts "Daisy" between Delphine and Dougram in this lineup... so, taller than the Arbalest and shorter than the RX-78-S "White Devil" Gundam.

[Black Aeronaut]

Just stumbled on a potentially useful pool on Danbooru: Portrayed.

In this pool, characters are drawn in a more classical, posed style. And more often than not, these images tend to provide a sense of what kind of people the characters are.

Safebooru link, because there's a whole LOT of (artistic) nudes in the Danbooru version.

https://safebooru.donmai.us/pools/3550

EDIT: Already found a great one for Kinomoto Sakura:
https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/4808530?q=pool%3A3550

[robkelk]

Just stumbled on a potentially useful pool on Danbooru: Portrayed.

In this pool, characters are drawn in a more classical, posed style.  And more often than not, these images tend to provide a sense of what kind of people the characters are.

Safebooru link, because there's a whole LOT of (artistic) nudes in the Danbooru version.

https://safebooru.donmai.us/pools/3550

EDIT: Already found a great one for Kinomoto Sakura:
https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/4808530?q=pool%3A3550

You can search on the pool number and a series name, which removes the countless Touhou images...

For example, the pool and A Certain Magical Index returns one hit. Don't know whether we want to use that image, though.

EDIT: The pool and Tenchi returns one very nice image... and then looking at what else the artist has done turns up another very nice image.

[Black Aeronaut]

Yeah, that one of Aeka was how I found it in the first place. I was poking around for a less "busy" looking character profile picture of her.

EDIT:
Also,
Chii: "Hideki. Fighto."
https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/1523656?q=pool%3A3550

Hideki: *Loses his goddamned mind*

EDIT2: I wouldn't be surprised if Chii does it on purpose at this point.

[robkelk]

EDIT2: I wouldn't be surprised if Chii does it on purpose at this point.

Chii knows that Hideki does like his "yummies", after all.

(Just don't tell Mahoro. )

[robkelk]

We're going to need this one eventually, right?

[Black Aeronaut]

Indeed.  Now that is one lady that Benjamin would certainly give the full-on gentleman's courtesy.  Because she's not only a refined lady, but also a total freakin' bad ass.

Lafiel: "I understand that there are appearances to keep up, but was that really necessary of him?"
Hotaru:  "You haven't gotten to know him yet.  Outside of our family circle, I can count on one hand the number of women he respects enough to do that and still have fingers left over."  *Chuckles*  "Also, you may want to be careful.  He's not one to poach on another man's territory, but if you get too close?  You and Jinto might wind up getting adopted some way or another."
Lafiel: "You can't possibly be serious."  *Sees Hotaru's growing smile.*  "...You are serious, aren't you?"

[robkelk]

I went looking at https://schara.sunrockgo.com/ for stats for the folks at the Grand Imperial Theater. Two series out of three had nothing listed. Sakura Wars was the exception... so all of their characters have birthdays, blood types, and heights listed now, and all but Yoneda have ages listed as well.

Now... When did the Grand Imperial Theater show up in the Metacontinuity? It makes a difference for Kanna.