Wikipedia:WikiProject Dragon Ball

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Welcome to WikiProject Dragon Ball (WP:DBZ for short), a WikProject that aims to organize, expand, clean up, and guide Dragon Ball (manga), Dragon Ball (anime), Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can simply start by editing any Dragon Ball, or join the project below and/or contribute to the discussion on the talk page. Be sure to also check out the to-do list for some of the project's ongoing tasks.

You may also be interested in joining our parent project, WikiProject Anime and manga, which is dedicated to all anime and manga articles on Wikipedia.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Guidelines, layouts, and advice 2.1 Official guidelines and advice 3 Other WikiProjects 3.1 Parent WikiProjects 3.2 Similar WikiProjects 3.3 Participants 3.3.1 Retired or Inactive Participants 4 Article structure 5 Categories 6 Ultimate goals 7 Resources

[edit] Scope

Dragon Ball is a Japanese metaseries (somewhat, not entirely). It began as a weekly serialized manga (519 chapters and one special), then adapted to an anime (three series, three TV specials, 17 feature films), and spawned dozens of home and arcade video games, toys, clothing, mugs, keychains, action figures, wall scrolls, and other merchandise. Dragon Ball has been translated into dozens of languages in many countries.

All information should be based on the original versions. Mainly, this will mean the Japanese versions (though at least one video game will refer to the English version). Because there are so many, no single English adaptation can be used as the English version. Besides the out-of-print adaptations, there are at least three English anime dubs and another company doing the manga, as well as another company translating the video games (which has been inconsistent at best). It would be inappropriate to pick any single distribution company over another.

The scope of the project will extend to include the manga, anime, video games merchandise. More specificly, the project will include:

• The manga, television anime, feature films, video games, music;
• The Dragon Ball universe in general;
• Individual characters and other elements;
• Use of mythology, geology, and other inspirations within the series;
• Dragon Ball as a cultural phenomenon; and
• English language adaptation of the metaseries.

While not specifically part of the project (as such articles are not focused on Dragon Ball), the following topics should be looked into as well:

• Cast, crew, distribution companies, production companies of Dragon Ball related items.

Our scope does not include:

• Fanfiction and fan culture;
• Dōjinshi;
• Any other form of speculation; and
• Works with only a passing reference to Dragon Ball.

[edit] Guidelines, layouts, and advice

• #Article structure

[edit] Official guidelines and advice

We strive to comply with all Wikipedia guidelines. The ones here are listed for convenience and also may be particularly helpful when editing Dragon Ball articles:

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
• Wikipedia:Notability (fiction)
• Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles)
• Wikipedia:Avoid trivia sections in articles
• Wikipedia:Fancruft
• Wikipedia:Image use policy
• Wikipedia:Citing sources

[edit] Other WikiProjects

[edit] Parent WikiProjects

In addition to the above guidelines and recommendations, follow the guidelines and recommendations of the following "parent" WikiProjects when they apply:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and video games

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

Even if not directly Dragon Ball-related, the following WikiProjects that may contain useful advice and information that you can use:

• Wikipedia:Pokémon Collaborative Project
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Gundam
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Digimon Systems Update
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Bleach

[edit] Participants

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Anyone interested in joining and participating in this WikiProject is free to do so. If you are a member, or would like to join this WikiProject just place one of these Userboxes to your user page, shown on the right. Also add your name to the list below. All WikiProject Dragon Ball userboxes add the user into Category:WikiProject Dragon Ball participants.

Please list only your name in alphabetical order:

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2. Bardock the Mexican (talk • contribs)
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33. SUIT (talk • contribs)
34. Superior1 (talk • contribs)
35. Takuthehedgehog (talk • contribs)

[edit] Retired or Inactive Participants

Users who haven't contributed to the project, or Wikipedia in general, in a while will be added to this list. They will be re-added to the list once they are active again.

1. DesireCampbell (talk • contribs) - Currently Inactive
2. KayChase (talk • contribs) - Inactive
3. kenn5 (talk • contribs) - Inactive
4. MisterFlashdude (talk • contribs) - Inactive
5. Power level (Dragon Ball) (talk • contribs) - Retired
6. RICKistheBOSS (talk • contribs) - Inactive
7. Supersaiyanplough (talk • contribs) - Inactive
8. VelocityEX (talk • contribs) - Inactive (for now)

[edit] Article structure

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and Manga#Article_structure for inspiration.

For each page type, we have a "template" article. These articles should be the focus of structural improvements, which can then be imitated in other articles of the same type. Many articles are far too long and there is no over arching style. They also come under criticism for being "In-Universe". anything that can be written about from a real-world perspective should be written that way.

To repeat: All information should be based on the original versions. Mainly, this will mean the Japanese versions (though at least one video game will refer to the English version). Because there are so many, no single English adaptation can be used as the English version. Besides the out-of-print adaptations, there are at least three English anime dubs and another company doing the manga, as well as another company translating the video games (which has been inconsistent at best). It would be inappropriate to pick any single distribution company over another.

• Character lists - Characters with too little information (Bubbles, Lime) to warrant a full page should be in a single list page (as opposed to the several we have now). Instead of the dozen list pages we have now, we should consolodate every character into one list. The list page should separate characters by species, then alphabetically. The list should not be broken up based on manga-only characters, anime-only characters, movie-only characters, etc. Each entry should give a brief recap of their involvement in the series, character traits, explanation of their name pun, as well as a quick note as to which media they appear in.

see example

• Character pages - Main characters (Goku, Gohan), and any other character with enough information (Oob, Oolong) should receive their own page. Each page should give a brief (three paragraphs maximum) recap of their involvement in the entire series, describe character traits, talk about the character's techniques, transformations, and the like, as well as a separate section detailing the charater's name pun (original pun word, kana changes, possible romanizations, etc)

see example

• Chapter/Volume pages - I think articles recapping single chapters would be of great benefit to the project. But, that's a lot of pages; perhaps only Volume or even just arc summaries would be sufficient.

see example

• Episode/Arc pages - At this point it's unclear whether each episode should have it's own page or if story arc pages would be sufficient. Many other anime articles have single episode pages

see example

• Movies - Each feature film should have its own page. -

see example

• Dragon Ball media - a separate page (preferably more than a list) detailing the release structure of the manga (Jump, tankoban, kanzenban), anime, movies, sup. books, video games, music compilations, etc. Page should be rather short, detailed information can be split off to separate pages.

see example

• Music - I think a page listing and explaining the music (BGM, opening/closing themes,) would be big enough for it's own page.

see example

• Video Game pages - each Dragon Ball video game should have its own page. Special attention should be given to the 'Budokai series'. We will have to keep the English game names, so it should be made clear in the opening paragraph the 'Budokai' 1, 2, and 3 are actually DragonBall Z games, and are not part of the same 'series' as the 'Budokai Tenkaichi' or Sparking! series. Special editions of games should be included as sections in the regular game's article.

see example

• Supplemental Books - there should be a page detailing the daizenshuu, world guides, landmark, and other supplemental books.

see example

• Template - the templates seen on the Dragon Ball pages now, while good, are too large and there should only be one, not two (or three). One bottom template needs to be consolidated for the whole metaseries.

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• English adaptations - There should be a separate and distinct page detailing the different English adaptations of Dragon Ball. Including which company distributed where, when, differences from the Japanese version, censorship issues, etc.

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• "Other" - Pages beyond these types of pages will probably be unique..

[edit] Categories

Article categories:

• Category:Dragon Ball.

Project categories:

• Category:WikiProject Dragon Ball
• Category:WikiProject Dragon Ball templates
• Category:WikiProject Dragon Ball participants

[edit] Ultimate goals

• Create a well-organized corner of Wikipedia that is not ridiculed by the rest of the Internet
• Gradually increase the quality of each section

[edit] Resources

• Deskana is an administrator and can help with page deletions, page moves, blocking of vandals, and assisting with policy matters.