Nya-chan Production wrote:Actually, question more for doki or dero - would it be possible to have some default setting on this (probably by the votes Eng [Jap], it seems) and be able to switch it? That shouldn't be that hard, right?
I'd even agree to help moderating names of Avatar if lacking of some titles would be a problem in this. And I mean it seriously.
pink haze wrote:I find this slightly daunting:
Place Promised In Our Early Days, The (Beyond The Clouds) [Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho]
But I'll prolly vote for it anyway. =_=
English is the site's official language. Also, if you're trying to find an Avatar quickly in an alphabetical list (w/o using ctrl+F), it's more practical for the more common title to be listed first. I think the English is the more common on this site.
mirkosp wrote:Nya-chan Production wrote:Actually, question more for doki or dero - would it be possible to have some default setting on this (probably by the votes Eng [Jap], it seems) and be able to switch it? That shouldn't be that hard, right?
I'd even agree to help moderating names of Avatar if lacking of some titles would be a problem in this. And I mean it seriously.
That would require a complete overhaul of how the catalogue works. As in, a fair chunk of the database would have to be rewritten/modified. The "Main [Secondary]" thing would be just stored like that as the name, it wouldn't be an automatic database detection. Of course, if doki/dero feel like modifying the catalog to reflect that, it would be awesome. Sure, it'd require a lot of effort to sift through the whole catalog to fix everything, but it is a thing we'll probably have to do regardless, considering what most of the votes seem to be.
Anyway, I personally would like a "Japanese [English]" naming convention.
mirkosp wrote:No, it's not a "second column for a separate name," we'd rather need a column with a pulldown to manage whether a name is Japanese, English, or Other, and another Pulldown for that name+language combo "main" or "alias" status, aside from the alias columns we have right now. That way based on the language and main/alias combination, the names would be properly displayed as per the users favourite settings. Right now we only have the name, and alias status. If one is alias then it's just linked to the main entry without any other specification. The overhaul that would be needed by just renaming would be different, as we'd just need to change the name of the main entries to reflect the "Title (Secondary Title)" convention, instead of reprogramming a chunk of the database and having to fix all the entries in the hope nothing screws up meanwhile (it will because the database will work differently, so the catalogue would be offline while we work, I suppose, if we go for that)?
That is, if my somewhat limited knowledge of databases and SQL is actually on spot. Of course it's true that your suggestion is more flexible and would ultimately be better, but we also have to think how feasible would it be to implement at this point.
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