Forum:Bootleg vs. Souls

I'm only discussing this with administrators, since this concerns sourced info.

Well, we need to go through some of the character data again. Yyp stated that there were some differences between the Bootleg and Souls, our main sources for character stats, and I thought as much from the beginning. I looked into the release dates of both. SOULs was released on February 3, 2006, and released in North America on November 18, 2008. The Bootleg, on the other hand, was released August 3 2007, but has not been released in North America yet. Anyway, my point is that the Bootleg and SOULs contain statistics that contradict the other, and I was hoping if we can settle which source to use. I suggest we use the Bootleg, since it came out later. My guess is that Kubo retconnned the original statistics (for one reason or another), and we should probably follow that one. Any thoughts? Arrancar109 23:25, November 6, 2009 (UTC)


 * Also, whatever we go with, I'll take the time to go around and make the changes. Arrancar109 23:29, November 6, 2009 (UTC)

I think if there is a conflict between the two, then we should go with the most recently released source, as it is likely to be more up to date. Any long running series can have newly released info that contradicts what was said earlier. I believe that the convention in such cases is that the newer information typically takes precedence. Anyway, for the most part the differences I noticed between what was on the character profiles and what Souls said was minimal, except for Ichigo, who had a 5cm difference in his height between Souls & what was stated on his profile. The most important thing to me is that whatever we use, it is the same source for all of the profiles (unless they are omitted from whichever book we use, of course). --Yyp 23:53, November 6, 2009 (UTC)

I concur. I think we should go with the Bootleg, then, since it's the most recent source. It's possible that Tite looked at the characters' heights (or whatever) relative to everyone else, and didn't like the distribution, so he decided to make some modifications. Twocents 00:51, November 7, 2009 (UTC)

The problem i have with the bootleg is its largely in japanese and can't be correctly referenced in the work we do. Most of the stuff online is in bits and pieces and while its ok for small information that cant be found elsewhere to push it through on all the articles is hard pressed. It maybe the most recent in japan but not here at all, while with souls i myself personally have a copy, i can put down pages and the like which i cant say the same for the bootleg. If someone can find a way to make it better then that would be good but thats my thoughts are on it. Salubri 02:42, November 7, 2009 (UTC)