Talk:Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai

Character and place names
I've noticed that people keep on changing character names to the translation used by one of the fan translations of the manga. The Manuel of Style says that if there is no official English release of either the anime or the manga to only go by the most used name only if there is no official name. As characters and most of the locations are given official romanized names in the Japanese manga volumes, by the Manual of Style we should use these spelling for the names in the article. I will be reverting the fan translation named back to the official names. SMimas (talk) 21:29, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:57, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Proposed merge with chapter/episode lists
I'm proposing to (re-)merge the chapter and episode lists (List of Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai chapters / List of Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai episodes) to here. They seem to have been split out solely due to the length of the tables; that aside, they contain essentially no information that is not in this article. The chapters list gives chapter titles + trivially precise release dates, and the episodes list gives the same for episode titles. Neither list supports the idea that the chapters or episodes are themselves notable outside of the manga/anime itself, or gives any details that couldn't be presented here in a more condensed form. -- Pres N  15:53, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
 * ’’’Merge or Redirect’’’ - It seems clear so far that The Adventure of Dai is a notable series, but if not enough materials exist to make featured lists out of the two separate lists of chapters and episodes, they should live here in some form, or be redirected. This is ideal, as any good information will live on here. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 17:06, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Now merged- the chapters list had no additional info to merge; the episode list had a few sentences which have now been added. -- Pres N  01:18, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect, does not meet the criteria for standalone lists, nothing to merge. Axem Titanium (talk) 17:54, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Merging the anime and manga pages isn't neccessary
Stop merging the manga and anime pages with the main page, especially since a new Dai no Daibouken remake is coming. Merging the anime and manga pages makes it look really bad and clustered. The anime and manga deserves its own pages. DranzerX13 (talk) 09:58, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * (Moved this section to the bottom)- To clarify, there were no "anime and manga" pages separate from here, there was a list of anime episodes and a list of manga chapters. That said, I'd argue (and did above, in the merge discussion) that the episodes/chapters do not warrant their own pages. The only thing that those lists had that is not in this article already is the actual tables of chapters/episodes, meaning the literal chapter names + date each book came out, and the literal episode name and date it originally aired. This is all very trivial information, and no indication was given as to how the individual chapters/episodes were notable separate from the manga/anime as a whole. As to actually splitting apart the manga series and the anime series (either together or separate, now that there will be two), "it looks cluttered" isn't really a compelling reason. There are hundreds of articles on wiki about manga/anime combos, many very well written. Splitting the article apart should be done if/when there is too much reliably-sourced encyclopedic information to contain in one article; we're nowhere near that. This isn't a fan wiki- we don't need to exhaustively chronicle every minor release date and then declare that the pile of trivial data is too much for one article. -- Pres N  18:52, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

This is just ridiculous. Many series such as Beyblade Metal Fusion have there own list of episode pages, and had just as about the same amount of information as Dai no Daibouken. You shouldn't have to keep scrolling way down just to get to the episode list, it's a waste of time. Also, you probably will do the same thing when the new anime remake comes out as well. DranzerX13 (talk) 14:09, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * That other trivial lists exist doesn't justify these ones. (WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS) That one minor animanga has 3 secondary lists to catalog its episodes/chapters/characters separate from a main article almost entirely composed of plot summary isn't good either, and doesn't mean that's the model to follow. Saying that it's a waste of time for readers to scroll down a page they're reading to get to a specific piece of information is frankly a bizarre argument; how exactly are these impatient "readers" supposed to find the link without scrolling down in the first place? Wikipedia isn't an anime catalogue; the titles of episodes are not the most important feature of a page that should be focusing on the real-world impact of the manga/anime. And yeah, if no sources out there discuss the individual episodes of the new series, then I'd certainly oppose creating a stand-alone list for them. -- Pres N  04:05, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Where'd the episode list go? I put it on the main page, and it just got reverted back. The episode list has been missing ever since you reverted it the other day. DranzerX13 (talk) 19:52, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "story": From Star Twinkle PreCure:  From Dragon Quest III:  From Kirakira Pretty Cure a la Mode:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 11:44, 24 December 2020 (UTC)