Forum:Scanlation Category

Those of you who have looked at the manga chapter articles will have most likely noticed that the later chapters contain a header noting that some information from the article was sourced from a copy of the Ranma ½ manga. For those that haven't the header looks like this:

Originally this category was created before I had access to the raw manga scans, so had to use scans from scanlations, hence the Scanlation category was made as an easy way to explain why the titles in the chapter images used in the infobox didn't match those in the official english translation. Recently I've been thinking about removing this category since raw images are being used for most of the images in the later manga chapter articles. Similarly, this would probably lead to the removal of the "also known as" line from these articles since they too are based on the english scanlation titles.

So please comment below, with a reason, as to whether the Scanlation category should remain or be removed. --Trivi-AM (talk) 15:36, October 7, 2012 (UTC)
 * I've noticed that all the newer manga articles use the raw English scans. If the scans are available for all the chapters yes, the Scanlation template could be removed. But, what about the older pages? Will the infobox picture be replaced by the English raw? Too bad I don't have access to Ranma manga :( Ryoga Godai  (talk)  15:44, October 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * If the official english scan is available for use in the infobox then that will take priority over the japanese raw scan, otherwise the japanese raw will be used. --Trivi-AM (talk) 16:32, October 7, 2012 (UTC)
 * What about the content then? The official content must be different from the scanlation. Sorry for asking too many questions. Ryoga Godai  (talk)  10:54, October 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * The official content does differ from the scanlation (particularly in the naming of one-shot/very minor characters and items). Again if the official translation is available that will take priority, otherwise the scanlation will have to be used for referencing content (quotes, plot overviews etc) unless a source like Furinkan.com or another user with access to that particular material says otherwise (hope that makes sense). --Trivi-AM (talk) 13:18, October 8, 2012 (UTC)