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===A Guide for Colours and Colour Tags=== | ===A Guide for Colours and Colour Tags=== | ||
Please see the following article for a guide on colours: [[Tags:Colours]] | Please see the following article for a guide on colours: [[Tags:Colours]] | ||
===Nationality Tags=== | |||
In general, when a person is from a fictional nationality, the fictional nationality should be tagged, and only the fictional nationality. When a person is from a real world nationality, the real world nationality should be tagged, and only the real world nationality. | |||
Anime can be set in the real world and therefore contain real world nationalities. It can be set in a fictional world and therefore contain fictional nationalities. It can also be set in a fictional world, but contain fictional nationalities based on real world ones. This policy provides guidance as to the possible scenarios and how characters should be tagged. This policy was discussed and confirmed [http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=creq&creq.show=1&creq.id=8092334#msg16321679 here]. | |||
====Case 1: Obvious Fictional Nationalities==== | |||
Where possible, create tags for fictional nationalities. They should also be marked franchise specific. | |||
====Case 2: Obvious Real World Nationalties==== | |||
Where the anime is set in the real world: tag the real world nationality. A large segment of anime would fall here, as many are just set in modern-day Japan. | |||
====Case 3: Fictional World Containing Obvious Real World Nationalities==== | |||
Where the anime is: | |||
* set in a fictional world, | |||
* '''and''' contains real world nationalities (that which can be identified on a cursory look), | |||
* '''and''' the nationality generally shares the characteristics of, '''and/or''' are generally indistinguishable from the real world nationalities (bar research on a "more than cursory" level), | |||
Tag the real world nationality. A good example is {{a|4521|Code Geass}}. It contains several real world nationalities, such as China, Japan (now Area 11), India, etc, along with fictional nationalities such as Britannia. China, Japan, and India are easily identified with a cursory look. | |||
====Case 4: Fictional World Containing Non-obvious Real World Nationalites==== | |||
Where the anime is: | |||
* set in a fictional world, | |||
* '''and''' contains real world nationalities (that which can be identified on a cursory look), | |||
* '''but''' the nationalities cannot be readily traced to real world nationalities (bar research on a "more than cursory" level), | |||
The real world nationality should '''NOT''' be tagged. This is a theoretical possibility, but is the rarest case. | |||
====Case 5: Fictional World Containing Fictional Nationalites with the Hallmarks of Real World Nationalites==== | |||
5. Where the anime is: | |||
* set in a fictional world, | |||
* '''and''' does NOT contain real world nationalities, | |||
* '''but''' has the "hallmarks" of real-world nationalities, | |||
The real world country should '''NOT''' be tagged. A good example of this is {{a|6107|Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (FMAB)}}. The country of Xing has all the hallmarks of real world China. However, FMAB as a whole is clearly set in a fictional world. Xing, while having Chinese hallmarks, is clearly not a mirror of China; for example, its geography and political history are in no way similar to real world China. | |||
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