Thread:Revriley/@comment-4828451-20191128034446/@comment-3218221-20191208205843

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Charts.

I saw those tweets when they were made! The gist I got was that at least one of them was a joke chart, but I did try asking someone to check the charts for names at the time to no avail. This is great; I've been wondering for ages if we'd get a given name for Aikawa. 'Saki', huh? I guess 'Misaki Sakimiya' just wasn't enough, Narita... Also, say, that's the kanji for princess. I should really look up more name meaning one of these days.

The priestess/hieromancer Recuria--her name was mentioned in I think Volume 2's Shagrua story, so at least I have an official spelling for that. I've also been lamenting how Narita never refers to any of Clarissa's employees by name in the manga, so a chart is...I'll take it.

The latest couple of chapters have actually given the bartender a name (Urai!), finally -- it gets a little old constantly referring to characters in the chapter summaries as "the bartender" (not that one, the other one) or "the brunette 'bunny'." Ah, but I realize now that you wouldn't know if you're only reading the physical YP volumes. Given the six month gap between volume releases, your patience is something I admire. (Hey, at least we're getting Volume 3 in English this month).

I've bought all four volumes in Japanese as well, which is how I've been getting most of my kanji or katakana for names so far. Names revealed in latest chapters have to wait their turn, mostly, though scouting blog posts/Pixiv/JP Twitter can sometimes turn up a name or two...sometimes. Still a bit put out there's no Japanese DMDP wiki yet.

limited wiki-editing experience

I getcha, but you know--we all started out with no wiki-editing experience, and the only way to acquire more editing experience is, well...to edit! That said, I don't think any individual character pages for any of the Youtoukorou bar employees are necessary right now; the bunnies and bouncers definitely don't warrant them at this time.

(Nishida's becoming important enough that he might actually warrant a page after this arc if not during it...Urai maybe won't need one? Sorry, talking to myself; these names won't mean anything to you.) In the meantime, though, you know what these character names are useful for? An employees list on a yet-to-be-created page for Youtoukorou (Clarissa's Bar).

There are far more important characters who still lack pages anyhow, not to mention various non-character pages that could be created... Anyway, I won't push you to contribute wiki content, but I certainly encourage it! We all have to start somewhere. Creating new pages is hardly the only way to contribute new content, as plenty of existing pages lack major content or are out-of-date. Many of the Shinoyamas are lacking chronology sections, for instance. Others' chronologies are out-of-date, or they're missing Personalities, etc., etc.

I can always clean up edits as needed, and I'm always happy to give advice or guidance if wanted. Community Central also has various help pages and blog posts on editing that one might find useful.

Again, no pressure; I definitely do find your post helpful, and I really appreciate you taking the time to help out at all. Solo-editing a wiki is a very slow and sometimes lonely process, let alone multiple wikis (I admin three Naritaverse wikis as well), and I can only ever be grateful when someone volunteers information and energy for the wiki's benefit.

(Also nice to see someone actually on the wiki, which has practically no user activity aside from me. I know the wiki gets 100+ view each day, but new user activity is what really reminds one that, 'oh yeah, a few people out there are visiting this wiki'. Which is more motivation to improve it. With that said, being in grad school has really decreased my editing rate something awful.)

Sorry--rambling, now. Thanks for getting in touch and taking the time to write out those names. I'll see about updating the blog post tomorrow; feel free to comment on it w/more names any time from now on if you're so inclined. Welcome aboard!