Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-53539-20140322082546

Due to someone making a mistake, this is needed to be put up for future reference and just to get everyone on par with each others knowledge;


 * 1) "Sales"; self explanatory, it anything to do with hints on how well the vocaloid sold.
 * 2) "Reactions"; this is mostly to note the overall success and failure of the Vocaloid at what it is as a product upon or pre-release.
 * 3) Impact; This Vocaloids overall impact against others in the franchise.
 * 4) "Misc"; various other related things like surveys and search results goes in here.

Notes; The popularity section was originally split up because some vocaloids gave a false impression. "SeeU must have sold well because of how much fanart there is of her" and "Avanna must have been a failure because hardly anyone is using her", though the latter came after the split... But mostly it was due to SeeU. It also helps certify those which are both popular and successful in sales, by highlighting things that tell you everything you need to know about them. Like in the case of Miku. It also helps explain any issues with the Vocaloid failure, such as Kaito's tale of re-discovery or the Kagamine's Act1 failure. This is the idea behind the splits intention. :-/

Reactions and Impact are intended to be "opposites", one deals with the Vocaloid upon or pre-release, the other "impact" many, many months down the line and how it may have impacted future Vocaloids or just itself. "Impact" rarely can be filled in day 1 of release and should not be rushed to fill in.

It seems we no longer doing Nico Nico Douga, Devianart and youtube results.

In reflection I sort of got why several months ago. The person who didn't get popularity, who is the result of this topic being written, recently displayed the most common problem why random search results can be unreliable. You look up "SeeU" on DA and get 17,000+ results right? Except, those are not all about SeeU and there are amongst these, non-Vocaloid results. The search you need is "SeeU Vocaloid" or "Vocaloid SeeU". The same goes for vocaloids like Oliver, Lily or Tonio. Japanese Vocaloids need their name in the exact Japanese text to produce more accurate results, however, a lot of people will write "Hatsune Miku" out instead of copy and pasting "初音ミク". This makes these type of actions worthless, as if you do the wrong type of search you get the wrong things, basically it fails pray to the GIGO routine of "garbage in, garbage out". :-/ 