Talk:Attack and effect names

Bolding
Seems like Pendulum Machine's attack name just doesn't wants to be bolded for whatever reason.... —This unsigned comment was made by 118.137.217.125 (talk • contribs) 17:18, 8 March 2010 (UTC)


 * That's because "Pendulum Machine" is missing the   ''' at the end of its name. Why are both attack and monster names being bolded anyway? Bolding is used to add emphasis. Bolding almost every term on the page defeats that purpose. -- Deltaneos (talk) 18:08, March 8, 2010 (UTC)

Overuse of bolding
When nearly the entire page is bolded, the bolding loses it's effect. Sure, we bold attack names on Card Appearances pages, but I don't see a reason to here. At the very least, we should unbold either the monster or attack names. Does anyone object? Cheesedude 18:20, June 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * No objections were raised, so I unbolded everything. Cheesedude (talk • contribs) 01:18, July 1, 2010 (UTC)

Separate Japanese and English sections?
What is the point to having separate sections for translated Japanese versus official English attack names? It would make far more sense to have a single combined list, with each attack name having 1) the official English name, 2) the original Japanese name, 3) romaji Japanese name, and 4) translated Japanese name (if different from official English name), just as we do currently on card articles for card names. This would eliminate a *lot* of duplication (and, therefore, omissions from people being too lazy to keep both lists in sync) and make the list more maintainable in general.

Or, perhaps, better support should be added to CardTable2, all of this info should be moved to individual card pages, and this page should be converted to an SMW-based auto-list? 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 00:42, May 12, 2011 (UTC)


 * It's more complicated than it seems, actually. First off, many monsters have multiple attack names in both versions. "Elemental Hero Avian", for example. I can list at least six attack names for him off the top of my head. Each of those names does not necessarily correlate to another in the other language. One of his English attack names is "Talon Tear". There is not one Japanese attack name is that consistently becomes "Talon Tear". There are other instances in which one version may use an attack name and the other does not, for whatever reason. Then there's attack names listed in the real-world card lore, which aren't always present in the anime. As for actual reasoning as to why its this, I'd say it's simply because whoever created the page set it up that way and no one questioned it until now.


 * The Japanese section of this page is using the Japanese/OCG monster names, which would sort of be lost if transferred to CardTabl2, "trans" parameter or not. On that note, can we get that "attackname" parameter changed to accept multiple attack names without using commas (perhaps using the same system as the "action" parameter and such). Cheesedude (talk • contribs) 01:32, May 12, 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, I was aware of the fact that many monsters have multiple attack names. =) I didn't know the Japanese vs. English names so often don't match up at all, but in retrospect, I suppose it's not all that surprising. And yeah, no matter what, the CardTable2 support needs to be improved *somehow* (for starters, like you said, built-in support for multiple attack names, and getting them into a property would also be nice). 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 01:59, May 12, 2011 (UTC)