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Lhikan634·8/19/2013 in Policy Forum

Hey everyone. We've recently had a huge expansion in the quotes section of the Huntik Wiki. This is definitely a good step as we expand an already extensive wiki (particularly considering that we have a smaller number of contributors than many of the larger wikis).

This step forward, though, brings up some questions regarding how we want to step forward. Obviously, some of what we do will have to be bound by copyright, but we probably would want to include a fair amount of buffer zone. Probably the general feel would be some

We might could look into some quotes policies on other wikis that do quotes for some ideas. A few issues I can think of that we might want to bring up are:

How many per episode? (I'd suspect we'd want to be well within the legal confines)
Length of pages (or if we want to do something in additional to number per episode)
Length of multi-character dialogue
Formatting (episode versus character pages)
What types of quotes to include (important, funny, etc.)
Whether we'd want some type of form to suggest quotes to add to pages or whether that would be too "formal" for the needs of the wiki

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Flossy666·8/19/2013

Hey Lhikan. Thanks for raising this. I've been having a think (which was remarkably painful :p) and my initial suggestions are:

15 - 20 absolute maximum per episode. (Admittedly, some episodes have a lot of quote-worthy material but a cap on the number of quotes would be a good starting point.)
Multi-character dialogue - say no more than three lines? For instance:

"Yes." (Me)
"No." (You)
"Maybe." (Seeker11299)

(Anything more than this and it could turn into a full-blown episode script rather than a quotes page...)

Types of quotes: funny (the show has some really great comedy moments), plot/episode relevant, character relevant (such as something that reveals aspects of a character maybe?)

As far as formatting goes, I'll leave that to more experienced editors than myself. :) The suggestions form might be a good idea - you could go through and pick the best perhaps?

If I come up with anything else, I'll let you know. :)

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Lhikan634·8/19/2013

Haha, thinking during the summer indeed can be a strange sensation : P Just a few quick, late-night comments.

I've done just a very basic Google search for "quotes and copyright" and only come up with quotes on various wiki projects. So any form of legal definition would pretty much be… actual research. I recall similar issues regarding screenshots last year.

For comparison, the Image Policy currently limits screenshots to 40 per episode, and that's typically way on the high side (for I think all but 1 episode or so). What with the Quotes Pages and Category Galleries on an episode level, we might need to consider both aspects of content (though I'll leave some of that discussion to the Image Policy thread).

Formatting would mainly be how we cite the who-said-it part. Like, have a — speaker note on the next line or a (speaker) note on the same line. I find the former to be a bit more common (also being employed by the TCG) and a bit easier to find, especially when there are notes such as to whom, during whatever event, since that can make the reference be… quite long. It also might be easier for keeping a similar formatting on quotes by episode as well as quotes by character.

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What do you think?