AniDB

Hello,

What should we do if:
1) an anime has a different name in French, German, Spanish, Italian, ...
2) an episode has a different title in French, German, Spanish, Italina, ...


For the anime name, am I allowed to add the foreign names as synonyms ?

For the episode titles, it is a real shame that when you click on a ed2k link, you always have an English name, even for files in Japanese with French subs. I would suggest the possibility to define a different title for each file.

any answer to this?

nothing.

Episode Title (English):
Episode Title (Romaji):
Episode Title (Kanji):

you read german, spanish or something else besides japanese and english there?

if you want a field for that make a request for that feature, but atm DON't ADD THEM ATM!!!!

as for anime titles those can should be added as official (other). but that has a bug atm and doesn't allow more than 1 entry. so use synonym/alias for the time being

On a less 100t hammer note, what I've been doing is replacing with english when I have it, and moving to the ep. desc. field. See some of Faf's creqs for Captain Future recently for another example. If you want better than this, you'll have to pursuade exp. I think a more important step will be using the CSS changes to create alternative language options of the web interface, then we might get enough monolinguals using anidb to warrent a change.

However, whether the French like it or not, english *is* the lingua franca (oh the irony) of the world (and internet in particular) at the moment, blame America. I suspect a majority of the anidb users actually speak one of the european mainland languages primarily, but watch anime subs, communicate on irc, etc in english.

Back to the main issue, I think that if an anime doesn't *have* an english title, feel free to add another language in that field, but don't get upset if it gets replaced later. Others would feel differently - pelican nearly castrated me the other day for daring to put a romaji ep title in the english field, instead of leaving it as 'Episode XX'.

Rar

Please note that my request was 4 months old.
Now there is a new Tracker, so I will use it.

The request is here:
http://www.anidb.net/tracker/view.php?id=103