Talk:Ranma ½

Sales rankings in May 2000

Y'all may find this reference useful: http://web.archive.org/web/20010706135824/http://j-pop.com/anime/news/top10.html

It gives top-10 sales rankings of anime in the US & Japan. This is included in the list. --Gwern (contribs) 01:30 26 January 2010 (GMT)

Viz Media's license expired?

There is some speculation swirling on certain websites stating that Viz Media's license to Ranma ½ expired in July 2012. I do not know more about this, but if anyone knows more about this, feel free to keep discussing so we can determine if this should be mentioned in the article.--I'm a Graduate! (talk) 02:31, 3 January 2013 (UTC)Chris

I think it's just a rumor. I haven't read any news on that. 五代 (talk) 11:31, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Shogakukan owns part of Viz Media so I doubt it expired unless somehow Shogakukan sold Ranma to another company in Japan but it could be out of print but the license would still be active

Ryoga has DTD

"Developmental topographical disorientation", or DTD is a disease where people spend their whole life being lost, even in their own home. The condition was first identified in 2008 and today there are about 1,000 known cases. (178.236.117.122 (talk) 13:08, 16 May 2013 (UTC))

Then it's impossible for Ryouga to have it, if it wasn't identified until 2008. Fictional characters cannot have conditions that are unknown about at the time that the creative works they existed in were produced (without the use of time machines anyway). Firejuggler86 (talk) 08:46, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

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Fraction in page title

Would anyone object to moving this article to Ranma 1/2 to conform to MOS:FRAC? Presumably all similarly named articles and categories would also be so renamed. (A general discussion affecting mostly articles on trains is at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_March_3#Category:10¼_in_gauge_railways_in_England.) -- Beland (talk) 00:55, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

I'm wondering about this also, for other pages besides those related to Ranma. While the article title uses the ascii character, the Infobox and in other places use Template:Frac and Template:Sfrac respectively. List of Ranma ½ video games uses the ascii character; I find these difficult to read, but I don't know how well Template:Frac is supported in article titles / section headings. — Christopher, Sheridan, OR (talk) 09:11, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

I really don't think that Template:Frac would work in article titles, because article titles have to be readable by a web browser &c..like, the url for the 1⁄2 in the title, if you look in the url bar is Ranma_%C2%BD. How would that work with templates? Would the url have to be encoded for the characters '{' '|' and '}' in the template?

In response to the OP of this thread, though, I would would ask: is its being at its current title cause any actual problems, other than "not conforming to MOS:FRAC"? Because, if there is no reason whatsoever other not being the format prescribed by MOS, that's not an adequate enough reason to change it; for, as we all know, MOS is a guideline, with which common sense should be applied, and exceptions may apply. Having said that, there is already a redirect at Ranma 1/2 so searchability is a non-issue. Firejuggler86 (talk) 09:16, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Update: upon reading MOS:FRAC, nowhere in there does it say anything about article titles, at all. All it says about not using the ASCII character ½ is do not use it, excepting articles in which "it is the only fraction that appears in the article". Furthermore, the 1/2 style is only recommended in science and math related articles, where {{frac|1|2}} is discouraged. since the article title IS the only usage of the character, and we cannot use the fraction template in the article title itself, AND that there is a redirect from Ranma 1/2, there is no good reason to move the article. Firejuggler86 (talk) 09:39, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Well, for one the article text and the article title are inconsistent, which seems unprofessional and possibly confusing if a reader tries to search for one form or the other on the page itself. The Unicode character is difficult to type, and having it in the article title forces it to be in category names for consistency. -- Beland (talk) 01:25, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

I was thinking similar to Floppy disk article text which makes significant use of Template:Frac. However, I get Firejuggler86's point regarding the title. If Ranma 1/2 already exists as redirect, would it really be productive to swap the article with the redirect?
— Christopher, Sheridan, OR (talk) 05:24, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
While I was aware of the navbox and related articles, I hadn't noticed there's also a Commons category that makes use of the Unicode fraction. Definitely not worth moving ½ → 1/2. — Christopher, Sheridan, OR (talk) 05:55, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Well, it would be about as productive as any other change that increases consistency. The MOS often arbitrarily chooses between two equally good alternatives for the sake of consistency. Though in this case there is also the usability improvement. -- Beland (talk) 02:37, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Firejuggler86, Beland: What about adding {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Ranma {{Frac|1|2}}''}} to the top of the article? That won't change the url in any way, but would change the display title. This works on my display (in preview mode); can it be confirmed for other displays?

[Sorry, I should have noticed that produces an "inconsistency" error message, so it won't work as written. Is the concept still sound?] — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 19:42, 7 July 2021 (UTC) (struck and appended 19:51, 7 July 2021 (UTC))

If that proposed change doesn't work, I'm not sure what "concept" you mean? -- Beland (talk) 23:30, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

I wasn't aware of the DISPLAYTITLE: magic word until today. Perhaps there's another template not listed in Template:Correct title examples that I'm not aware of? I've read on MediaWiki that $wgRestrictDisplayTitle=false can override the restriction (doing so should be extremely rare), but I think that only works when actually coding the magic word/template (which means altering its function across Wikipedia), not simply using the magic word in an article; I couldn't find anything that specifically shows how to do it. If I find something that works, I would only apply the changes to the article with consensus, but even if we leave the article as-is, I've learned a lot today. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 04:57, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Just mentioning this as an option. If this article was moved Ranma ½ → Ranma 1/2, then we could add {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Ranma <sup>1</sup>/<sub>1</sub>''|noerror}} at the very bottom of the article, which would display the title as Ranma 1⁄2, but the URL would still be Ranma_1/2. The magic word DISPLAYTITLE would have to be at the very bottom in order to override the magic words inherited by the infoboxes. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 09:58, 16 August 2021 (UTC)