User talk:Centcom08

Rachael Lillis

How old was she when she died? The articles 2024 in animation and Deaths in 2024, as well as her article, state that she was 55, but the article 2024 in anime states that she was 44, which you also said. 2601:547:CC80:4F00:C0E6:D637:B4F1:29B1 (talk) 18:58, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

@2601:547:CC80:4F00:C0E6:D637:B4F1:29B1, hello and thank you for reaching out! The source (Anime News Network) in 2024 in anime article regarding Rachael's death has been updated by the reporter to reflect the correct age when she passed away (from 46 to 55). I subsequently restored your edit along with me updating the URL. Centcom08 (talk) 19:11, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. 2601:547:CC80:4F00:C0E6:D637:B4F1:29B1 (talk) 19:21, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Girls und Panzer das Finale IMDB title edits

Hi, I've got just over 350 edits so I'm hoping that with your extensive experience you'll spare me some time to discuss something with me. It's only just come to my attention that my IMDB links for the four Finale films were changed from those listed by IMDB as using the Roman numerals I, II, III, IV in the titles and therefore according to the template name at IMDb as correct to 1, 2, 3, 4 by you. I am therefore curious to the reasoning when it is my understanding that the point of an external link such as to IMDB is to use its information and not informally correct their page information, as it might not just be a title, but actors or episodes. It is my understanding that we link to IMDB and other references because they are considered reliable. Surely our sole purpose is to edit Wikipedia and not external sources if they contain errors? If the thinking is that IMDB is wrong then why link to it? Or would it be practical if we, as editors, are so concerned about any mistakes in IMDB to become an editor of it and log into IMDB and edit it to correct it first and only then link to it on Wikipedia? As I say, I'm asking just for my own understanding of the situation and certainly I'm not here to rip into you for making any edits to my edits. I'd just appreciate some clarification for my own improvement. Thanks in advance. Cheers Ralph Mimaroba (talk) 23:49, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

@Mimaroba, hello and thank you for reaching out! The das Finale series numbering is based on Sentai Filmworks's titling of the films when they release them in North America, which uses Arabic numbering, hence we use it in the article and its subsequent redirects (Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 1, Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2, Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 3, and Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 4). Also, the titles in Japanese uses Arabic numbers. These statements were in accordance to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films) guideline. We are simply reflecting what title/s is/are being used in Wikipedia in Template:IMDb title, which by the way defaults to the article title when not using the | title= parameter so if you place the Template in one of the redirects when it become an article mainspace, it will uses what the redirect's title be. If you are going to place an IMDb as an external link in a Wikipedia article, of course we follow the title guideline we use in Wikipedia instead of reflecting what IMDb uses (since they have their own guideline). Speaking of IMDb guideline, according to Title formatting guideline, We use the original title of a movie/show in its original language as it appears on screen (on the title card).... If you have watched the films, the title cards appearing after the credits are using Arabic numerals, so I am not sure why they use Roman numerals. But then again, we are in Wikipedia so we use Wikipedia:Manual of Style here. Checking your first edit involving IMDb here, you are using what IMDb use for the films (you added the subtitles outside the template), which already conteadicts what is being used across the article. Centcom08 (talk) 04:09, 17 August 2024 (UTC)