User:Ntnd/Song Cleanup Info

'This page is a planning page for a potential future project by Ntnd. Nothing expressed here is to be considered as a recommendation or guideline to be used when creating or editing pages at this point in time. It does not represent the views of other members.'

Quantity of Pages
The wiki currently has a song page for almost every track featured on an album (except for the soundtrack albums). This tends to make editing more difficult while offering little benefit. My personal opinion (Ntnd) is that things like instrumental versions of tracks don't require their own page. This is because they generally don't provide any new information beyond what can be found on the page for the original track. The -Instrument instrumental pages are also mostly redundant and could perhaps be replaced with a generic explanation page which can cover all instances.

Page Titles
Currently, most song pages have a title which is just a Romanised version of the song's title, however songs that share their title with an album have " (Song)" appended. If anyone wants to change this, now would be a good time to voice your opinion. A lot of the main albums already have " (Album)" appended to their name, so it shouldn't be too hard to ensure consistency on those either.

Title Furigana
Furigana seems to be a bit overused in the titles on song pages. While useful in some cases, it isn't really needed for katakana or some of the kanji it's used on either. I'd (Ntnd) probably use it for cases where there are multiple kanji as part of a compound or there's an uncommon character/reading only. Most people using the wiki can probably just use the Romanisation if they have too much trouble. One example, Ichigo Parfait ga Tomaranai, uses furigana for the whole title, even though almost all Japanese readers would have very little trouble reading it otherwise. There's only one kanji character there, and it's not very uncommon.

Additionally, it's probably best to maintain the official printed furigana where possible. On the page for Fuwa Fuwa Time, the furigana is rendered in hiragana, which is different to the official version which uses katakana because "タイム" is a loanword. Use of katakana within furigana this way is at least somewhat supported by the Wikipedia article on it. While possibly(?) non-standard, there's nothing wrong with using katakana in this context.

Album Art
While not really a major part the song pages, it is displayed on them. A fair bit of the artwork here is scanned and only partially cleaned or from other fairly low quality sources. I've already contributed quite a few improved versions of artwork and more is on the way.

Also worth mentioning here is the distinction between regular and limited editions. I believe this mostly affects the singles. IIRC, Cagayake! GIRLS and Don't say "lazy" are two examples of a page which makes the distinction via an additional picture on the page. I believe that most of the other albums (I don't think there are a large number, but they do exist. Possibly just OPs/ EDs or something.) with multiple editions seem to just have the limited edition artwork provided. It also looks like the limited editions might actually be more common than the regular editions, but I can't really be sure. The AniDB discography tabs seem like a pretty decent resource, but they might not be 100% complete either.

Lyrics
''It probably wouldn't hurt to quickly code up something to replace the lyrics tables with a template so they can be changed easier. I might do some testing of this as a separate thing when I get a chance.''

Phase 1: Japanese Lyrics
I know that I've (Ntnd) found quite a few minor issues in the Japanese lyrics in my time here. Ideally, it would be nice to completely check all lyrics for issues.

While doing this, it would also be nice to set some guidelines to make all of the lyrics consistent. A potential set of guidelines is listed below. '' These definitely need to be finalised with input from other members before anything can happen. ''
 * When lyrics are broken up within a line, use fullwidth spaces. This matches the look of the printed lyrics and provides distinction between them and the halfwidth spaces used within English portions of lyrics.
 * Symbols printed as a part of lyrics should be maintained wherever possible.
 * Stay true to the Japanese source where reasonable. If there is a large amount of doubt as to whether the published lyrics are correct, it is recommended to contact other members to help you make the decision.
 * As an exception to the last rule, replace repeat markings in the source with the segment that is being repeated. This enhances readability with no significant downsides.
 * Paragraph spacing should match the lyrics booklet. Look out for larger than usual gaps between them.

Phase 2: Romaji Lyrics
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Potential Phase 3: English Lyrics
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