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Encyclopedia Suggestion List.

1: Oh HELL no! The site is already mobile-unfriendly as it is, more images means more data. Besides, is it really that hard to do a google search?

2: You already can, for Japanese cast/crew. It's in your settings.

If this results in nothing I'll make the step and delete everything and anything from Anime I have never seen.

While I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, on the chance that you're not, that's not how the Encyclopedia works. If there is an official English title, whether it's for an unedited or edited version, that title is the main title of encyclopedia article. I'd love for Weiss Kreuz to be credited as such, but Knight Hunters is the official English title, so that's what's there.

It's good to be picky and want to add series correctly. Very good. That means I have less stuff to fix. :-)

Basically, we have decided on having the english title as main title of an anime (whenever possible). This is really just a matter of policy because either japanese or english would be fine. We chose english because, as sailormech pointed out, ANN is an english-language website. We definitely want the main title to be the official english name when the anime has been licensed. For unlicensed anime... the japanese name would probably be the best option.

Apart from that, this is not really an issue. Main titles and alternative titles are both displayed in the encyclopedia, and they both lead to the same page. Pretty much the only difference is that alternative titles have to be approved by us before appearing in the list of titles (they appear in the anime's details though). So if someone enters a title very similar to one that is already listed, like "Please Save My Earth - From Alice, To Rin", we simply will keep it as an alternative title but not list it with the other titles.

Since the staff seems to be pleased with the modified Schulze ranking used for "best and worst of the week", the thought of adding it to the Top 10 pages here and here occurs to me. ANN already has an implementation of the algorithm in use, so I can't imagine it would take too long to code. Would it be prohibitively difficult to compute? I don't know how often those update (every page load? once a week? once a month?), and I don't know what O(n^3) translates in real time to when you have like 10,000 candidates. Though a 10,000x10,000 table sounds like a lot of cache misses...

If that's not feasible, how about allowing users to select anime or manga for Schulze rankings of their own? Kind of like the "Compare Credits" feature. Though I'd still like to see an encyclopedia-wide comparison even as just a one-time thing, maybe a blog or forum post.