Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga

Welcome to WikiProject Anime and manga! We are a group dedicated to improving the coverage of anime, manga, and related topics on Wikipedia, and hope that the suggestions on this page and its subpages will help guide the efforts of other contributors. If you have any questions about the project, please feel free to ask them on our talk page or contact one of our participants.

For more information on WikiProjects, see WikiProjects and WikiProject Council/Guide.

What topics we cover
WikiProject Anime and manga's scope includes all topics related to anime and manga as well as all media, persons, organizations and fandom substantially related to any anime and manga franchise. This includes international subjects necessary for comprehensive coverage of the core topics.
 * Anime, including television, OVAs, and animated films;
 * Manga and light novels, including serials, such as Young King OURs, and collected volumes;
 * Media belonging to the same franchises as the above, including video games, visual novels, live action versions, audio dramas, soundtracks, and stage shows and musicals (such as Musical: The Prince of Tennis);
 * Video games related to anime or manga are under a shared scope with WikiProject Video games;
 * Visual novels, dating sims, bishojo games and other similar games regardless of whether they have a major anime or manga adaptation under a shared scope with the visual novels task force;
 * Notable characters, episodes, issues, and merchandise of the above media;
 * Directors (e.g. Hayao Miyazaki) and mangaka (such as Rumiko Takahashi) and other notable production staff;
 * Japanese publishers and production studios (e.g., Shōnen Gahōsha and Gainax) and international distributors (such as A.D. Vision and Funimation);
 * Notable Japanese or international publications and websites meant for review and commentary of anime or manga (such as Newtype or Anime News Network);
 * Voice actors, Japanese or international, whose principal work is in anime and whose roles are generally notable (such as Takehito Koyasu or Jessica Calvello); and
 * Drama CDs, songs and soundtracks based on anime or manga are under either the shared scope of WikiProject Albums or WikiProject Discographies depending upon the nature of the article.
 * Composers, bands and musicians based primarily around anime or manga are under either the shared scopes of WikiProject Composers or WikiProject Musicians.
 * Major aspects of fandom: including conventions (e.g., Comiket or Otakon), terminology and concepts such as otaku, and other practices.

What topics we do not cover
This project maintains an essential focus on anime, manga, and related merchandise originally meant for consumption in Japan. Therefore, its scope does not include works with incidental or minor association, including (but not limited to):
 * Animated or printed works produced for consumption outside of Japan that nevertheless draw on or are similar to Japanese media in terms of content or form (such as Chinese animation, Korean animation, manhwa, manhua and Western manga-styled comics such as Gothic Sports and Peach Fuzz).
 * Media, particularly video games, in which anime or manga characters make incidental or out-of-context appearances.
 * Pre-modern manga such as Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga, their artists, and other related elements. These are better suited for inclusion with the Japan and Art WikiProjects.
 * Composers, bands and musicians with incidental anime or manga association, such as having only a few of their songs used for anime opening or ending theme songs.
 * Articles on compilation albums with only a few anime or manga related tracks.

Goals
As a WikiProject, our main goals are to:
 * Ensure that all anime and manga-related articles are clean, organized, well-written, and accessible;
 * improve all anime and manga-related articles to at least good article, featured article, and/or featured list status; and
 * create new articles relating to anime and manga as long as they are encyclopedic and adhere to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

Joining the project
Anyone who edits or contributes to anime and manga related articles is a participant, and there are no other requirements for membership. If they like, users can further identify themselves with the project by signing up as a participant. This helps spread the word about the project, and lets other editors know what types of articles that user is interested in editing. Users can also join the project chat on the unofficial Wikimedia Discord server; see WP:Discord for more information.

Users can add themselves to the listing at Category:WikiProject Anime and manga participants by adding the following to their user page:

Users can display the project's userbox (pictured above-right) by adding User WP Anime to their page, which will also automatically sign them up as a participant.

BarnSakura


The Anime and Manga BarnSakura is awarded to users who have worked on and greatly improved anime and manga related articles. This can be bringing articles or lists to good or featured status, major copyediting, cleanup, or other significant help with an article not listed here.

To award the BarnSakura (or alternate BarnSakura), place the following code on a user's talk page: 

YOUR TOPIC HERE
Put your message here. ~ or alt 

For example: 

BarnSakura for excellent edits
I hereby award you the Anime and Manga BarnSakura for your excellent edits in Naruto-related articles. ~ 

Barnstar


The Anime and Manga Barnstar is awarded to users who have made particularly good contributions to the WikiProject, including, but not limited to, participating in the assessment department, the cleanup department, and pushing new initiatives forward within the project.

To award the Barnstar (or alternate Barnstar), place the following code on a user's talk page: 

YOUR TOPIC HERE
Put your message here. ~ or alt 

For example: 

Barnstar for excellent edits
I hereby award you the Anime and Manga Barnstar for your excellent work in clearing the backlogs in the cleanup department of WikiProject Anime and manga. ~ 

Triple Crown


The Anime and Manga Triple Crown is awarded to users who make significant contributions to anime and manga-related articles, and must be credited with at least one "Did You Know", one good article or good topic, and one featured content.

To nominate someone for the Triple Crown, please list them and their supporting material at Triple Crown/Nominations.

Guidelines and other resources
For a list of reliable sources for anime and manga, check out the online reliable sources page.
 * Manual of Style
 * Manual of Style/Anime and manga
 * Manual of Style/Japan-related articles
 * Manual of Style/Writing about fiction
 * Manual of Style/Biography
 * WikiProject Japan
 * WikiProject Japan/Film credits glossary
 * Policies and guidelines
 * Citing sources and Citation templates
 * Notability (companies), Notability (people), Notability (television)
 * Image use policy
 * Writing character articles

Online tools and resources

 * ISBN converter – converts ISBNs between 10 and 13 digits, see WP:ISBN
 * Internet Archive – stores dead pages or older versions of existing pages, very useful for volatile websites and blogs
 * Archive.today (formerly archive.is), Megalodon.jp, Webcite – more archiving sites that can be used for references
 * Google RS – custom Google search engine using our reliable source list and filtering out many bad or non-RS sites
 * reFill – semi-automatically adds information (title, dates, etc.) to bare references, also combines duplicates