Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-35301431-20170314133630/@comment-53539-20171128131551

Controversy Concerns also hold information.

One thing to note from Damesukekun is we shouldn't always rush to add whats going on in the Japanese fandom to the wikia... In hindsight of the last incident... I'm starting to consider its possibly the best idea myself....

As much as people seem to think their opinions on Japanese side of things matter, we're not the same fandom as per such and what happens in Japan honestly rarely affects us. Unless its really important or is notable to be a media reported issue, we should stay out of things perhaps? I think, I'd rather focus on the issues with our own fandom more and only report things if its worth reporting in the first place.

Hell, Japan can be scary, I saw the report of Idolmaster and how when it was thought one of the voice actresses had been in a 18+ film, a group of fans attacked Idolmaster locations to get at the character she voiced in the Idolmaster. Turns out... IT wasn't the same voice actress... And they raged against the character for nothing. I remember when it was discovered Dan Green, a voice actor in 4Kids productions (and the only one who is actually good in their cast of voice actors in my opinion), had previously voiced adult level anime under a false name... All that came of it was amusement from fans of Yugioh who began to put up videos where Yugi's lines were replaced with lines from Dan Green's adult anime work. So... Culture differences can be quite notable in their contrasting reactions, in Japan you have fans raging, in the west you have fans mocking it. And this is just because of the fact we don't have the same opinions on "avatars" and what characters really represent. We mock Ash Ketchum for staying immortally young, while in Japan, ageing him 1 year for Sun and Moon did bring some outcries to make him 11 instead of 10. Even then, our fandoms not been without fault... Anyone remember the over reaction to "Miku Formula" and how while I struggled to figure out how to write the page, the fandom just raged at me for even daring to suggest Vocaloids copy each other... Which wasn't the point of running the story in the first place, it was to note that certain vocaloids do have influences from Miku and there is a problem. Reason being was a the time we had Ring and the Chinese fandom and things were getting out of hand. Remember, also there was a time when suggesting two Vocaloids sounded the same was a accusation one dare not make, when in V4 its an issue that Japanese companies have acknowledged is very real and now they are having to try and combat this all the time. :-/

To be honest, it can also be a little unfair, when it comes to things from another culture it can be problematic due to the language barrier. Think about it, if there is an ounce of truth to a story and the Japanese producer can't speak English or knows about our report on them, they can't tell us if we're wrong. I'm starting to feel if we can't run a report on an event wherein there is not a possibility for the person to speak up, we shouldn't run it at all as its one-sided and unfair. As arrogant as this producer is, we have to bare in mind they have the right to speak up against us and the wikia can be held accountable if we don't get it right. It can be touchy ground, especially if this producer truly treats people the way they do, they may feel simply we're tarnishing their good name and not even bother talking to us at all. :-?

At the end of the day... We're suppose to be neutral as a wikia, and whle the editors can express their opinions, the wikia can't. So reports on the fandoms controversies also have to be written with this in mind.