Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24363501-20161008161001/@comment-3444885-20161011133517

Yukigitsune wrote: But there's already a quote section in this wikia, complete with the sound clips and translation, so there'll be no need for you to switch captain in order to know their quotes? With the series now spanning more than one medium, not everyone will be here for the game's information or willing to scan through all of that to understand something so simple, especially if they don't understand how the game works.

"If they're going to learn about a series whose primary medium is a game that uses one-liner, they'll just have to get over it" would be a somewhat valid argument, though. I personally believe that as long as Touken Ranbu is not just a game, the site shouldn't act like it. Naturally it's still the primary part at all times, though.

The wikia also has linked that recollection in Gokotai's main page... as with every recollections and the swords that appeared in it. That's a link to the page the information is on, the information itself is not on the page. If you're like me, you went months without even knowing what a recollection was (I somehow managed to never trigger one). Therefore, you wouldn't know what potential information was in it unless you were curious or already were looking for it, as I said. Having "relatives" is a basic facet of his character, and it's not relayed clearly on his main page.

For me personally, a lore/personality section will be a bit too much. Everyone will interpret a sword's personality differently, like for example some will say that Hachisuka is just being a tsundere to Nagasone while others will say that he plain hates his counterfeit older brother. And there's no saying who's right, because really, it's personal interpretation.

Why Hachisuka is tsundere is interpretable, but he's still tsundere; it's still clearly a part of who he is and is therefore his personality. Also, when the interpretation is as simple as the either/or example you gave, it wouldn't kill anyone to list both as "possible reasons". If it can be backed up by the lore, it's worth putting up even if not explicitly confirmed (just making sure readers are aware of that).

Also, reasons why/specifics are interpretable, but the actual "whats" are not. Kousetsu dislikes fighting. Iwatooshi thinks highly of himself because of his size. The Toushirous+Ichigo+Gokotai are brothers. Things like that can't be argued.

There's also a problem about the canonity... like can we really consider Hanamaru as canon? Like I said before, it's not necessarily the canon. But it is clearly a canon; different continuities between manga and anime are a common thing, I don't see what's so difficult about that being so between the game and the anime. It's as simple as making a "[insert character]/Hanamaru" page.

And if non-players came to this site looking for that canon, why are they greeted with nothing? Doesn't that sound like the opposite of what a wikia is for, to actively avoid including information? At least with the other stuff it can be argued that it's already around the site in some form. Hanamaru information is non-existent outside of the anime's main page.

There's also the important thing that Touken Ranbu does not have a legal release in English (or out of Japan at all), but Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru does. It has been licensed for subbing by Crunchyroll and dubbing+home release by Funimation. Kind of odd to actively avoid inputting information for the only official English entry in the franchise... on the English wikia.