Forum:Quotes Policy

It's been talked about multiple times on the wiki before, but nothing ever got finalized to a point where we could say we had an actual policy or consensus. So I'm going to give the quotes policy discussion a push and see if we can come up with a consensus on implementing rules around use of quotes sections on the wiki.

For note, old quotes discussions: Forum:Quotes and Forum:Quotes, Romanji, and Naming.
 * We had another discussion on some random character talkpage, but I can't remember which one.

To start, I'll try to list the issues with the quote sections:
 * There are a number of pointless quotes inside quote sections. Not just quotes which aren't really significant to a character, but ones that are downright useless like them shouting the name of a jutsu.
 * A lot of the quotes aren't even verified properly. Quite frankly, I have a strong feeling that there are a large number of quotes on the wiki that aren't literal quotes. They've either been modified by some random person, or are a fangroups interpretation of a character's words which means they aren't even a proper quote, and don't even match up with the official English.

Here is the guidelines under my proposal:
 * All quotes will be moved to a Quotes:Character Name namespace just like we have Infobox:Character Name.
 * Just like with the new character infobox setup quotes will be included in a page using a template.
 * Pages in this namespace will be automatically protected so only sysops can modify the quotes.
 * This is done to prevent the huge pile of unverified quotes that slip into pages. There is no real other reliable way to handle this than that.
 * If a staff can't do this, we'll probably try to make use of cascading protection and work around what that would to do articles by using lst/dpl rather than standard transclusion.
 * New quotes can be suggested in sections on the relevant Quotes talk:Character Name page.
 * Obviously pointless quotes like characters shouting jutsu names will be outright rejected.
 * The quote section on the talkpage must contain...
 * ...a proper rationale as to why the quote is relevant to that character.
 * ...a precise citation to where the quote can be found (Chapter and Page, Series, Episode #, and ideally a relative location in the episode)
 * Quotes must come from a proper official source.
 * Quotes from fansubs and scanalations will be rejected as they are not proper quotes from the characters, but are rather translations by a fan group which 99.99% of the time is not the same as the actual quote that is placed into official media.
 * ..thus, quotes must be from:
 * The official English translated manga.
 * The official English anime dub.
 * Or the official English anime subtitles now being broadcast on crunchyroll and directly by viz on sites like hulu.

Suggestions, feedback, and agreements to show we have consensus are welcome. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Apr 6, 2009 @ 06:41 (UTC)