User:Timothy Perper/SandboxManga

Sandbox for Final Revisions of Manga article

Please do not make changes directly on the draft text. It causes chaos -- and I speak from experience. Instead, put comments, criticisms, and suggestions below the text under a separate heading. Thanks Timothy Perper 10:18, 27 September 2008 (CDT)

The material below is for a new page, to be called "Manga/About this Article." It will be put into the new manga article as an explanation of the mechanics of the article. Timothy Perper 12:44, 9 October 2008 (CDT)

For Manga/About this Article

(1) This essay contains some extensively modified, rewritten, and rereferenced material from the "Manga," "History of Manga," and "YAOI" articles on Wikipedia. The primary author of this article wrote or contributed to those articles on Wikipedia and has made a serious effort to revise them for use here.

(2) The text is organized thematically and historically and is comprehensively referenced. There are two kinds of reference. For reasons explained below, please do not reformat them.

(A) Scholarly references to the literature and to reliable sources on the web. All web sources include a URL visibly displayed as part of the reference.

(B) References to manga, cited in a different format, and linked to websites with visible URLs that provide additional information, typically Anime News Network. ANN gives links, estimates of popularity, publishing history, and other material.

(C) The wiki-derived software used for creating this article includes some templates that were not and should not be used for formatting purposes. The primary reason is that they make the URL invisible, hiding it as a hyperlink under other parts of the reference. That means that a reader cannot copy or download a printable version of the complete bibliography. And that is useless. A secondary reason not to use the templates is that they waste a great deal of space. Therefore please do not reformat the references.

(3) Unfortunately for the ego of authors -- who want to believe that the brilliance of their insights, the subtlety of their analyses, and the richness of their style will be remembered for years to come -- unfortunately for them, many articles of this kind are valuable mainly for their bibliographies. Accordingly, the bibliography is quite long. It does not cover everything -- it could not -- but it covers a lot.

Willy-nilly, Citizendium is an Anglophone encyclopedia, and therefore most of the references are to English-language, not Japanese-language sources. Individuals able to read Japanese well enough to read Japanese-language sources will have no problem locating them using the Japanese-language Google.

(4) Please put all comments and changes on the Manga discussion page and do not insert them directly into the article. That way, everyone can discuss the proposed changes and we can avoid the sorts of chaos that inevitably follow when different people simply try to pile up bricks and boards in a miscellaneous heap, hoping that the outcome will magically coalesce into a coherent essay.