Thread:Mr. Waddle Dee/@comment-33442125-20180706001231

Overall, it's good. Thank you for elaborating. Always strive for specifics like this so visitors know exactly what is being referred to. That's good. And it helps me find the specific scene in the chapter so I can fact check it.

As such, you don't have to get cheeky with me or any other editors like you did with that one comment. I'm a JP translator, and I have every single novel available in Japanese in both physical and electronic form as well as the official YenPress releases in both electronic and physical form. Looking up information and reading the chapter isn't the issue; it's hard to remember small details like that, and we don't have the time to read an entire chapter for one detail - some of these chapters are massive with 60+ pages. If you had written it as well as you did and as precise as you did to begin with, I wouldn't have reverted it and would have fact checked it later. I didn't revert your addition to Mikiya's page about having an unnamed brother even though I don't know where you got that information just because I don't remember the detail - I can reread and check later when I have the time. The issue wasn't whether it was fact or not, it was just that it was so vague and generalized that it indicated everything in the games was canon, which it's not.

That said, I am changing the wording slightly, and it's nothing of your fault given the resources available to you. As I said twice now, the games are still not canon. Narita has made aspects of it canon, but the exact events of the games are not canon to either the anime or the light novels. In fact, it's impossible for the exact same events to happen in the light novel timeline.

3waystandoff takes place from October to November and it's stated that the Slasher incidents were recent. While this is plausible in the anime timeline, it's not in the light novels as the Saika Arc takes place in February. This is why the manga adaptation for that arc has the characters wearing winter clothes. The slashing incidents didn't take place during fall in the original source material.

And that's not the only issue. The storyline of the game makes it impossible for the Yellow Scarves arc to even happen, and even more so in the Relay game. Narita has acknowledged there being an incident similar to that of the game having taken place, but it cannot happen exactly as the game. So far he's acknowledged the political scheming and a fake Headless Rider in the Durarara!! series and Otsuberu, but nothing more on that. Hence we can't indicate everything of the games are canon.

Again, I don't blame you for this. Because I understand Japanese, I catch mistranslated information all the time. It's fair if that mistranslated info is all you have to go off of or have limited sources to work off of when editing. And this is why I'm mainly writing this message: to explain details not known to you so that we don't have an edit war.

Finally small thing I've noticed:

You seem confused between the differences of Culture References and Trivia. Think of it like this: culture references are for facts or references outside the universe. Trivia is for anything within the universe or about the work itself (like the title puns). The point with the 3waystandoff mention should be under Trivia, not Culture References. I was able to mention how Yahiro called Kuon "Kotomine" under Culture References because the reference was to another series that was related to the culture of Japan; the Fate series isn't part of the Naritaverse. If you're still confused, just put it under Trivia; you can't go wrong there.

Second, the source code. I've made this mistake too when I first started editing. I noticed you've been deleting the first line in the source code. Please don't do this. Having that space there helps separate the source code a bit so mobile users have an easier time editing pages. If you see these closing brackets }} that indicates the end of the template. Add a line so the next sentence or paragraph doesn't get jumbled together. I will be readding those spaces. Having that line there helps separate code so it's easier to read; it does not affect how the page looks at all.

You're always welcome to write on my wall to further question why I do things the way I do. It's hard to explain everything in edit summaries. I know I wrote a lot, but you honestly did perfectly fine with that edit. I just needed to explain how the games aren't canon before I change the wording slightly. You did fine. 