Wikipedia:WikiProject Tokusatsu

Welcome to WikiProject Tokusatsu, a WikiProject that aims to organize, expand, clean up, and guide tokusatsu-related articles. If you would like to participate, you can simply start by editing any tokusatsu pages, or join the project below and/or contribute to the discussion on the talk page.

You may also be interested in joining our parent project, WikiProject Japan, which is dedicated to all Japanese articles on Wikipedia.

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

Scope
The scope of the project includes all Japanese tokusatsu productions and any adaptations of them in other languages. More specifically, the project will include:

As well as their English language adaptations:
 * Kaiju films (Godzilla, Gamera, etc.)
 * The Ultraman series
 * The Super Sentai series
 * The Kamen Rider series
 * The Metal Hero Series
 * Other Toei Superheroes
 * The Chouseishin Series
 * And other pages in Category:Tokusatsu
 * Power Rangers
 * Beetleborgs
 * Masked Rider
 * VR Troopers
 * Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad
 * Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight

While not specifically part of the project (as such articles are not focused on tokusatsu), the following topics should be looked into as well:
 * Cast (e.g. Haruo Nakajima), crew (e.g. Eiji Tsuburaya), distribution companies (e.g. Toei Company), and production companies of tokusatsu-related items (e.g. Toho).

Our scope does not include:
 * Fanfiction and fan culture;
 * Japanese media using only visual effects such as Computer-generated imagery or anime rather than traditional Japanese effect techniques (such as suitmation or miniature models), exemptions include films featuring some traditional tokusatsu sequences such as the anime film The End of Evangelion (1997), and live-action films Shin Godzilla (2016), Shin Ultraman (2022), and Godzilla Minus One (2023);
 * Dōjinshi;
 * Any other form of speculation; and
 * Works with only a passing reference to tokusatsu.

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 tokusatsu-related articles:
 * Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
 * Notability (fiction)
 * Writing better articles
 * Manual of Style (Japan-related articles)
 * Manual of Style/Film
 * Manual of Style/Television
 * Manual of Style/Trivia sections
 * Fancruft
 * Image use policy
 * Citing sources

The Japanese language
Utilize the Nihongo template instead of the makeshift one (English and then kanji/kana in parenthesis followed by romaji in italics). If the katakana or kanji is unknown, check the page at the Japanese Wikipedia (日本語のウィキペディア).

Power Rangers

 * Episodes should not have their own article (this is not a catch-all; major exceptions include Day of the Dumpster and possibly some others). They should be put in a "List of xxx episodes" article.
 * The tables on Power Rangers articles should be phased out entirely. They should be replaced with a terse character section, describing the character, such as sections at Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, GoGo Sentai Boukenger, and Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger. No colored text should be utilized in this process. The only thing that should be linked to are the following:
 * The character's section in a separate article or the character's article
 * An article on the actor who plays said character.
 * Create a common and consistent outline to be used for each individual Power Rangers series
 * All series articles should include Synopsis, Characters, Arsenal, Zords, and Episodes (and under these common titles)
 * Reach a consensus to either create/expand other "common" sections featured in only a couple series (including Production History, Uniqueness of the Series) or remove/integrate the information into other sections.

Participants
Please feel free to list your name in alphabetical order, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. If you are an administrator, please use in your name.

You can also place on your userpage.

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Featured content

 * None

Candidates

 * None



New articles
Please feel free to list your new tokusatsu-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.



Templates

 * Godzilla
 * Mothra
 * Gamera
 * Ultraman
 * Kamen Rider
 * Super Sentai
 * Metal Hero Series
 * Power Rangers
 * Power Rangers characters
 * Eiji Tsuburaya
 * nihongo

Categories

 * Category:Tokusatsu and all subcategories.
 * Category:WikiProject Tokusatsu

Related projects

 * Japanese Wikipedia's Wikipedia:WikiProject Tokusatsu (Wikipedia:ウィキプロジェクト 特撮)
 * WikiProject Japan
 * WikiProject Anime and manga
 * WikiProject Sailor Moon
 * WikiProject Television
 * WikiProject Films