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::On the one hand, yes, these are terms readers of the manga will be exposed to. But 1) chapter is also a term whose most common meaning is not "an arc"; using it like that is always going to have a large potential for confusion anyway. And 2) these pages are not just for the "average (manga) reader"; readers who've never touched the manga probably form a large chunk of the audience too (you know there's tons of media you look up that you've only heard of, that's just the internet). | ::On the one hand, yes, these are terms readers of the manga will be exposed to. But 1) chapter is also a term whose most common meaning is not "an arc"; using it like that is always going to have a large potential for confusion anyway. And 2) these pages are not just for the "average (manga) reader"; readers who've never touched the manga probably form a large chunk of the audience too (you know there's tons of media you look up that you've only heard of, that's just the internet). | ||
::If we can reasonably just treat Adventure, Battle, etc as part of the title, then I don't see why we need to make awkward pages like "List of battles in Pocket Monsters Platinum: Aim to Be Battle King!!". Unless it's really clear that, like, they're saying things like "Have you read all the battles?" and using it in place of "chapter", I don't think forcing ourselves to use the jargon is the smart choice. [[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 23:52, 1 August 2023 (UTC) | ::If we can reasonably just treat Adventure, Battle, etc as part of the title, then I don't see why we need to make awkward pages like "List of battles in Pocket Monsters Platinum: Aim to Be Battle King!!". Unless it's really clear that, like, they're saying things like "Have you read all the battles?" and using it in place of "chapter", I don't think forcing ourselves to use the jargon is the smart choice. [[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 23:52, 1 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
:::Okay, I think you've mostly won me over. I think what did it for me is realizing that they way we cover Pokémon Origins is basically a perfect parallel to this, like how [[PO01]] is titled ''File 1: Red'' but we still call them "episodes" and not "Files"/"files". I would support the idea of titling chapters in the vein of "Adventure 200 - Whatever" but I should note that starting with the Diamond and Pearl story arc and continuing with every subsequent story arc, the "Adventure" numbering system resets, so ''[[PS337|Adventure 337 - Epilogue]]'' is directly followed by ''[[PS338|Adventure 1 - Stagestruck Starly]]'', and that, to me at least, presents a problem. | |||
:::I'm also a bit unclear on what your idea is for dealing with the "chapter" name for story arcs is, if you could expand on that. At the moment, I'm thinking of something like "''The First Chapter: Red, Green & Blue'' is the first story arc [...]" would be a good approach. [[User:Minibug|Minibug]] ([[User talk:Minibug|talk]]) 14:58, 2 August 2023 (UTC) | |||
