Forum - View topicReprisal as a source
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ShinoParade
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Hi, I was looking at the encyclopedia articles for a few anime and I noticed that in the English sections for the casts that the word "Reprisal" is put in as a source, and I was just wondering if that is something that this site allows its users to put.
Examples: anime#24164 anime#15866 anime#23264 (Reprisal was also put in for the added English staff) |
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EmperorBrandon
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 2215 Location: Springfield, MO |
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No, "Reprisal" is not an adequate source at all. The source needs to have actual proof that the person has reprised. Simply assuming someone is going to reprise without proof is bad since the person may not reprise for any number of reasons, and then there is incorrect information in the encyclopedia that wouldn't have been there in the first place if the submitter had waited until the production was out and info officially revealed.
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BigOnAnime
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 1246 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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Adding info before it's confirmed is heavily discouraged. I can't tell you how often I've seen incorrect information added when people ran with assumptions. Ex: Adding Carly Hunter immediately after a FUNimation dub was announced, and then when the credits were officially revealed, she's not there because she had left the company. Someone also added Gen Fukunaga for Blessing of the Campanella which FUNimation ultimately only streamed, never released on home video, nor dubbed. They assumed FUNimation was going to dub it, which again, never happened.
Reprisal as a source should only be done in special circumstances, like if there's for some reason no credits, such as the Ai Yori Aoshi Enishi Miyuki special. No English credits for that special are anywhere to be found on the FUNimation DVD release (no idea if it's like that on the Geneon DVDs too as I don't own them yet), but the actors from the TV series reprised their roles. anime#17082 Additionally, something else that's not a valid source is "Voice ID". Going off ear when there's English credits, English cast announcements and such that officially confirm if someone was in the cast is also heavily discouraged. |
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ShinoParade
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Thanks for the replies. Though I do have one other question: if "Reprisal" and "Voice ID" are not allowed as sources, then how come some entries that have them are still listed?
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
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Adding info before it's confirmed is bad because of the risk it may be incorrect. And when that happens it's more work for the editors to clean up, and the misinformation may have already spread to other sites... just not fun.
The thing is, we have a semi-informal policy that "the information is true" is more important than "the information has been submitted the proper way". What can I say, it's my anti-bureaucracy bent. So removing info that is unconfirmed and maybe wrong but still likely to be true so it will need to be re-added later... that would cause its own set of problems, and it's even more work for the editors than just cleaning up the wrong info. And by having the source as "reprisal" at least there's a certain amount of accountability; anyone checking the source can know the "epistemic status" is uncertain. So basically it's something that has no good clear-cut answer but we'd really appreciate if people abstained from doing it and giving us extraneous work. |
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