User talk:Ookamitempestas

Welcome
Hi, welcome to ! Thanks for your edit to the '''Takeru "T.K." Takaishi''' page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! Ryo205 (talk) 04:44, June 21, 2014 (UTC)

Ages
First off, any material officially published by Bandai or its licensees is valid for citation, so don't remove the DVD booklet stuff.

Secondly, what is "Digimon: Digital Monsters - Official Character Guide"? I see something on Amazon, but no evidence that it was published with Bandai's approval. If you can provide evidence that it is official, then those ages can be provided alongside the ones already cited. As for "aging up" the other characters, no, that's absolutely not allowed. 12:45, June 21, 2014 (UTC)
 * The booklet is self-contradictory, true. The show is also self-contradictory. Furthermore, as far as the ages "contradicting what's in the show" (1) the booklet doesn't say the ages are being taken at the same date, (2) ages aren't given in the show in the first place -- pretty much only grades are, (3) time dilation is explicitly part of the plot anyway, so everything is already timey-wimey.
 * We've had to deal with too much of people saying "Well I think this grade/age makes sense". It's not encyclopedic, and it's not professional. Every age listed should have a citation -- it's up to the reader to decide which publication they prefer.
 * What you're supposed to do when the extra materials equally legitimate publications contradict the show one publication depicting one instance of a cross-franchise character is list every published piece of data, and cite every published piece of data. We have no need to get into debates over which publications count, because there's absolutely no non-arbitrary way to make that decision -- Bandai has not made any sort of series bible or policy on canonicity available to the fans. 00:24, June 22, 2014 (UTC)