Template talk:Vocaloid
Needed?I think there's alot of things not needed within this navigation template. There are some links not "directly" related to the Vocaloid software such as MikuMikuDance (which even is noticeably not cited properly). Story of Evil, Hatsune Mix and some more can actually only be considered sub-categories as they fall under "japanese vocaloid fandom" which is only semi-related to Vocaloid itself. Someone aside from the creator of this template, please look on the matter. JCD (Talk) 14:14, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
SourcingNo one has yet provided a source for the name of two of the Vocaloids voice providers on the main source, while their obivous on one part for Gachapoid's, we need the source on the other. All others have considerable sourced through all other links on vocaloid main page. 94.168.119.106 (talk) 07:50, 13 October 2010 (UTC) Listing the software?Theres no need to list all the individual Vocaloids, as there is only 1 with an actual page at the moment and thats Miku. The other's must have pages made for them for them to qualify, otherwise the templates looks incomplete. Angel Emfrbl (talk) 10:55, 29 October 2010 (UTC) Should we add UTAU?I wonder if it would be relevant if we added UTAU under the "Related articles" row. Granted, it's not Vocaloid, but the two tropes are related. It's due to the success of Vocaloid that UTAU became more popular, isn't it? I'm just not sure, and I wanted to ask for any opinions before it is changed. FaeriMagic (talk) 01:52, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Too many items that don't link to articles90% of the items in the navbox don't link to an article on the English Wikipedia. This isn't so bad for the items with foreign-language entries, but there are entire rows where neither the company(?) nor any of the listed items appear to have articles in any Wikipedia. As per WP:EXISTING, navboxes should only include entries with existing Wikipedia articles; as such, this navbox needs to be significantly edited to remove the unlinked items. --V2Blast (talk) 18:06, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
Just leaving a note, the template needs work and I am creating pages for the Vocaloids - but this is all, it will take some time though as I have to adapt information. I sadly have to sit back and wait a day or two between adding pages so its taking a while, to check their going through. See discussion below, I've removed some items and I this will not interfere with your work. I tend to find a lot of the wikipedia pages get ignored and rarely edited. The templates stuff should have been up and running long ago but whomever was going to do it hasn't. So its the only reason I'm doing it now. In addition, when things are updated its very selective... Like you'll find people doing what we at the Vocaloid wikia called "the Big 8" vocals (basically its Miku, Len, Rin Luka, Gackpo, Gumi, Kaito, Meiko) but rarely the others. So this means when updates ARE done its selective and only on a handful of the 60+ characters - and some of these don't currently warrant pages at all here. :-/ I don't know how to adjust the format of the sources to match proper wikipedia looking references... I don't know if anyone can go over and fix them? I'm trying my best and didn't know this discussion was occurring. Its a shame that these problems exists in the first place. But I thought I'd highlight things that I've noted over time... Even in the days of there just being Vocaloid and no addition pages (which changed in 2010), these problems still existed, so its a long-term thing. :-/ Angel Emfrbl (talk) 12:56, 7 March 2016 (UTC) removed some vocals - moved othersI moved vocaloids whose main releases were via the Yamaha store and weren't major Vocaloid releases to the "Yamaha/Bplats" section. Most are using Yamaha only as a distributor and count as "Yamaha" vocals (by their own terms). With the exception of Maya (as Exit Tunes is a major company like Sony - they just only made 1 vocal). I'm working on pages for every vocaloid release. However, I will not make pages for unreleased or cancelled vocals. They do not warrant wikipedia pages in my opinion, nor real mention at all. Akikoroid-chan is retired Ueki-loid never amounted to anything, hide (who wasn't even listed!) was only featured as a one-off. The cancelled vocaloids are in a state of limbo and are difficult to know what the future holds. Lui, for example, never became a Vocaloid at all, while Ring has only a limited trial. These vocals are best left only mentioned on pages to do with the engine. Angel Emfrbl (talk) 12:46, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
Empty pagesSo as I feared with leaving the number of redlinks, someone has gone and filled them in without adding any evidence of significant coverage in reliable sources. My solution would be proactively merging these to the list of Vocaloids unless someone has a better idea. To be clear, I'm talking about all of the recent articles that cite one or less secondary source to justify a dedicated article. If an article has to be written from primary sources, it does not have significant coverage and is best covered in a list. czar 17:39, 22 March 2016 (UTC) |