Forum:Third Official Bleach Character Book

On Friday 3rd June, the third official character book for Bleach will be released. So while we still have the time, I though it would be prudent to get something organized in advance regarding how we want to handle it. I think we definitely need a central page to co-ordinate it from, like with last year's Masked Project. Maybe if anyone has any comments, positive or negative (but constructive criticism) about how the Masked Project was handled and anything we could learn from that to help us this time around. We had some trouble last year which lead us to restrict work on the Masked Project to Committee members and Admins. I would like to think that if we are well enough organized this time, we can avoid it coming to that again.

Anyway, some good news is that while there may still be renaming of character pages, the vast majority of them were settled in MASKED and thanks to Godisme we now have a bot that can handle such things much better if the need arises. Bad news is our translation corner is behind and not showing signs of improving. We cannot allow them to be bombarded with random requests to translate entire pages for random users. It should be kept to important things. Thoughts, ideas? 19:49, May 27, 2011 (UTC)

Obviously I will be picking the book up the day it comes out. I haven't been running around to every site detailing any of its contents that I should expect. Though I am concerned in general about renaming anything so what would give you that Idea that there would be renaming going on, bot or no. --Salubri (Talk)  21:40, May 27, 2011 (UTC)


 * There were a lot of Arrancar characters whose names never had an official romanization before the Masked databook and the articles were corrected from the unofficial fan-scan versions to the official ones laid out by Kubo. As I said it should not be anything major this time around due to the vast majority of them being dealt with in Masked, but it is a possibility nonetheless. I am more concerned with people jumping on the articles adding stuff that they have literally just read (and not necessarily from a reliable source or having fully understood it) and not trying to verify it or organize it, editing haphazardly with no thought to the structure of the articles, clogging up the translation corner demanding full sections of the book be translated for them, etc. There will likely be a decent size of people who will see the databook and think, oh, I wanna be the first to add this to the wiki and theyll once again create a ton of work for everyone here to fix. 21:53, May 27, 2011 (UTC)


 * I believe the page that needs to be locked ahead of time is Ulquiorra. I don't know how much of the advance promo material you guys have seen but the promo material I have seen shows never before seen manga short stories from Kubo himself that seem to give Ulquiorra's back story. Ulquiorra of course has a large, large fan following. So that's a page that has to be locked before people start messing with it. Tinni   (Talk)  13:41, May 29, 2011 (UTC)