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This page, "Moegirlpedia:Scope of Inclusion", is an active policy of English Moegirlpedia.
  • The text of the policies has been deliberated and adopted by the community.
  • All users have the responsibility to follow the policies outlined in this text.
  • If you see a need to amend or change the policy, please start a discussion thread on the discussion board.
  • If the policy does need to be amended/changed, please start a corresponding proposal.

This policy regulates the scope of articles that can be created under the [Main:] namespace of Moegirlpedia. Articles that violate this policy may be deleted by the maintenance group.

Fictional characters

Characters from works

Characters appearing in the works specified in the Works section, which can be included regardless of gender and race, and there is no restriction.

  • In particular, any historical figures, even if they have appeared in different works, should be included as archetypes.

Gijinka and Moegirls

These characters also have no gender restrictions, so both men and women can be included.

  • If the character is a genderbent version of another character, a jotaika of a male character, or a gijinka of a character in an existing work, and it is introduced in the same page as the original, the original should be the main focus.
  • If the character is a gijinka or moegirl version of a certain object, and the character has multiple designs made by independent creators; priority should be given to introduce each of them on separate articles.

Notice:

  • Archetype articles cannot be created when the archetype does not meet the conditions of the scope of inclusion, but archetypes are allowed to be included under a moegirl's page.
  • If the content of the moegirl's page is too small, but the archetype meets the conditions for inclusion, please consider introducing the moegirl under the archetype's page.

Independent characters

They do not come from the works specified in the Works section, but independent original characters can also be included in Moegirlpedia. For example:

  • Original characters created by artists/illustrators;
  • Kanban musume or virtual spokesperson characters;
  • An independent image of a personal project or business entity;
  • An independent image managed by a commercial company;
  • Characters who appear in works outside the scope of inclusion, but have 2D images.

Notice:

  • Do not confuse independent anthropomorphic characters with characters appearing in works;
  • Do not confuse real people with fictional characters based on them;
  • Unless there is sufficient history/lore and a certain degree of influence and popularity, please do not create articles about those around you for fun.

Real people

Real life people are included only if they meet one of the following conditions:

  • Relevant creators of works specified in the Works section: cartoonists/mangaka, voice actors/actressses, animators, original artists, illustrators, novelists, composers, writers, producers, designers.
  • ACG singers: More than half of the music publication's title songs for which they perform require the first two categories of songs specified in the music section.
  • Other ACGN-related content creators: singers, cosplayers, dancers, streamers/YouTubers;
    • Utaite/web singers: Must have three or more original songs that meet the music scope of inclusion, those who simply cover ACG songs will not be included;
    • Streamers/YouTubers: Their videos must be mainly produced using content related to ACG works, and they must have certain originality.
  • ACGN company executives: Includes chief executive officers (CEOs) of organizations specified in the Organizations section, or the main person in charge of ACG-related departments in a large comprehensive organization;
  • People related to ACGN culture, memes, etc., but should be mainly introduced around their relevant memes, and a brief overview of the person's history is enough.

Notice:

  • Do not satirize real people.
  • These articles should not contain extensive descriptions of their works or experiences unrelated to ACGN+ culture.
  • Internet characters who are not closely related to ACGN, but have high popularity and meme attributes, can be included in the way of Internet buzzwords.
  • Internet celebrities and celebrities who are not closely related to ACGN but have a 2D image should be introduced based on the 2D image; if you want to write an article for a person, the article's content should focus on his or her relevant terms and sentences, and only a brief biography of the person;
  • If you do not have a public photo but have a 2D image, you can use the 2D image to illustrate, but do not use a private photo that leaks privacy as an introduction;
  • For personal privacy and image considerations, please do not use photos that are NSFW (Not Safe for Work), or that damage the person's public image.

Groups

Includes groups consisting of the above characters that fit the scope of inclusion, including but not limited to singer groups, voice actor groups, VTuber groups, etc.

  • The groups must be approved and recognized by the people who form them (or in the case of fictional characters, by their creator or copyright owner in question) and works released under the name of said group should exist.
  • Character pairings/ships are not allowed.

Works

You can create articles about works of fiction, be it animation, comics, games, novels, movies, TV shows or stage plays, but do not upload the entire work directly to Moegirlpedia.

If the work has a large number of related items, and these items need long-term maintenance. In order to improve maintenance efficiency and avoid wasting time, you can ask for help in the discussion board or contact maintenance team members for more support.

  • If there is a need to upload the entire content of the work, it should be uploaded to Moegirl Library;
  • Based on the "fair use" principle, you can upload some fan/official introduction text/pictures/music/video clips as item descriptions. When uploading files, you should pay attention to the file's information and mark its copyright. For details, see Moegirl Commons.

Animation

Includes any commercial animation and fan animation works that are not listed in the #Not included section.

Comics

Includes any commercial comics and fan comics that are not listed in the #Not included section.

Games

Includes content that meets any of the following conditions:

  • Any electronic/video game that is not listed in the #Not included section;
    • Electronic games that are "digital" versions of traditional board/card games (such as Solitaire) are not allowed.
  • Tabletop games beyond traditional games.
    • Memes related to the game.
    • Terms related to the game;
    • Gaming styles are allowed, but not as separate articles.
    • Game mods.
  • In particular, unless a stable fanwork has been formed, fan content made by gamer community may not be included.

Novels

Only those novels that are mainly written and published in Chinese, English, or Japanese, or that have an English translation and that have been published, are included.

  • "Published" here means that it has been released and obtained an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) or included inside a publication with an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) and/or any other international index number;
  • In particular, in a series of novels, if only part of the content has been published, the series can be merged into one article; if all the content has been separately published as books, it can be merged or separately collected by publication;
    • On November 6, 2020, taking the Dragon Raja series as an example: Even though the franchise has multiple novels, since it is still serialized, they should be merged and included in one single article; since all the contents of the Three-Body series have been published, it can be all merged into one single article (for the trilogy) or as separate articles.

Music

Includes music works that meet one of the following conditions:

  • Music related to ACGN works within the scope of Template:Notes (hereinafter referred to as ACGN+ works);
    • The music of the ACGN+ work must be listed in the work's credits or included in the Original Soundtrack (OST).
    • Official derivative tracks of ACGN works, including but not limited to character songs (CS), impression songs (IM), commercial jingles (CM), etc.
    • Music used in ACG derivative works that are directly related to ACG culture, such as tokusatsu, official radio dramas of ACG works, and films/TV dramas adapted from comics that are within Moegirlpedia's scope of inclusion.
    • Existing music directly used in ACG works (there must be evidence to prove that the music is used in the ACG work) shall also be included.
      • This type of music directly used in a single work is regarded as an insert song and is attached to the collection of the work.
      • This type of music directly used by two or more works is included as an archetype article.
      • Music involving historical and cultural conditions (such songs generally enter the public domain) should be included as an archetype article.
    • Fan content, including original fan content and influential adaptations and covers.
    • The additional songs of ACG audiovisual publications are included, including but not limited to the following situations:
      • Template:Comment;
      • Tracks that do not appear in the work included in the animated BD bonus.
    • The tracks in media mix projects such as LoveLive! may be included in order to ensure completeness, provided that the work is fully set and does not violate the scope of inclusion.
  • Songs sung by virtual singers with an independent 2D image;
    • Original songs by VTubers;
    • The VTuber's main covers will not be included, unless the cover also meets other conditions in the scope of inclusion.
    • Original songs made using VOCALOID, CeVIO, Synthesizer V or any other vocal synthesis software.
    • Adaptions and covers made with vocal synthesis software are also allowed to be included.
    • UTAU, Jinriki VOCALOID original songs with animated promotional videos (PVs) are included.
      • By default, Jinriki VOCALOID parodies/covers are not included, unless the parody/cover also meets other conditions in the scope of inclusion.
  • Songs that do not meet the above two categories, but are closely related to ACG culture. Including the following situations;
    • Original tracks sung by ACG singers (or groups of/formed by ACG singers) within the scope of inclusion, such as voice actors, singers, etc.
      • "ACG singers" here refers to singers who have more than half of the main songs of music publications included in the above two categories.
      • Cover songs from ACG singers will not be included, unless the cover also meets other conditions in the scope of inclusion.
    • Songs produced by ACG music producers within the scope of inclusion, that have an official promotional/music video (animation MV/animation PV);
    • Songs that are popular on the Internet in the form of memes, or songs that are widely used as material for ACG-related fanworks, with articles categorized with Category:Culture (Category:Concepts/Category:Terminology) or Archetypes.

Notice:

  • For tracks included in the Archetype category, the inclusion standards of the Archetype category must be followed (used by 3 or more ACG works or series that meet the scope of inclusion).
  • For songs with PVs, if the PV is released after the song, the song will be included after the PV is released.
  • The BGM/OST appearing in ACGN+ works should be compiled in the music album article of the work, and it is not recommended to create separate articles for them.
  • For fan songs and songs sung by virtual singers, if the following conditions are not met, they will not be included:
    1. The song is included in a physical release;
    2. Non-singing synthesis tracks with the number of video reproduction/playing/viewing up to 5000, or singing synthesis tracks with the number of video reproduction/playing/viewing up to 1500.

Films/TV shows

Includes films and television programs that meet one of the following conditions:

  • Tokusatsu;
  • Puppet dramas;
  • Introduction of documentaries related to the ACGN industry.
Notice:
  • Live-action movies and TV series adapted from ACG works will not be included, but can be included in a separate section in the original work's article.
  • For live-action TV series and live-action movies adapted into animations, comics, novels, and games; in order to ensure the article is organized, creating articles for the work is allowed, but the content should still be based on its ACG adaptation. Live-action films and television series are still not regarded as ACGN+ work that meet the scope of inclusion;
  • TV series and movies related to well-known memes will not be included, but a brief summary of them can be written in the meme's article.

Radio shows

Includes radio dramas/radio shows/TV shows/webcasts that meet one of the following conditions:

  • Derived from ACGN works;
  • Introduce ACGN's works and industries;
  • Hosted by ACGN content creators.

Musicals and stage plays

Includes adaptations of animations, comics, novels, games or derivative musicals/stage plays that meet the scope of inclusion.

Music releases

Includes music releases that meet one of the following conditions (including physical singles/albums, digital singles/albums, etc.):

  • Music publications of ACGN works;
  • Physical albums with ACG-related music tracks accounting for half or more;
  • Music publications of original songs by ACG singers mentioned above;
  • Music publications in which vocal synthesis songs account for half or more.
Notice:
  • If the work's music publication (work music album) only contains regular content such as OP, ED, OST, and radio dramas, and the number is small, the content of the music publication is introduced in the "main article of said work", and the music article is added inside a Daikazoku template (no need to create a dedicated album page);
  • If a music publication (single) contains only one song or only one song and its different versions, you can introduce this music publication (single) in the "corresponding song article" or "the main article of the work". There is no need to create a separate article for the single.

Other publications

Includes books, booklets, or magazines with info/news related to/reviews of animation/comics/games/novels, etc.

Special instructions for doujin works

Moegirlpedia is not a work-publishing platform. Please do not publish your work on Moegirlpedia.

Here is a further explanation of the inclusion of doujin works, rather than expanding the scope of inclusion. Moegirlpedia treats doujin and official works equally.

  • Moegirlpedia only provides the same level of introduction and explanation for doujin as much as the official works, but do not publish the original text of the work in Moegirlpedia;
    • If you are a fancier creator, you can consider posting your work on Moegirl Library.
  • Doujin based on existing content is not allowed.

Concept/Terminology/Events

Terminology

Includes terms that meet one of the following conditions:

  • Various terms and terms in ACGN + culture;
  • Sentence patterns and concepts popular in ACGN + culture.
Notice:
  • Popular sentence patterns and concepts of otaku culture which generally appear in ACGN works, or appear as neta and gags in fan creations;
  • Popular sentence patterns and concepts of Internet culture which generally appear in ACGN works, or appear as neta and gags in fan creations;
  • The collection of terms is not limited to the time period in which it became popular;
  • Foul language/swear words will not be included;
  • Soramimi (misheard lyrics) are generally written in song articles, unless the soramimi becomes a well-known meme and appears in other works and fan creations.

Moe points

Description of a character's specific external or internal traits present in ACGN + culture.

Events

Well-known events included in ACGN + culture.

  • A "major event" is often characterized by a high level of visibility and influence on other individuals in the ACG industry beyond the individual(s) involved in the event.
  • Events that are only well-known among a small group of people and events that have less impact should not be included independently, but a brief description of the event is allowed under the relevant article.

Plot

Lore

Note the difference between lore and plot element.

Archetypes

  • Includes real life elements used by more than 3 independent ACG works, such as real people, events, places, customs, myths and legends and their characters and objects.

Archetype articles should mainly introduce the content of said article's subject related to the ACG work, such as its use in the work. The introduction about the element itself in real life, which is unrelated to fiction, should be concise and to the point, to the extent that the general reader can have the minimum understanding after reading it.

  • The specific standard is to copy the display text of the "use in real life" and "fiction" sections into Word and use the Word count function to calculate the word count. The number of words of the "real life" section should not exceed 500 words or 1.5 times that of the "fiction" section, whichever is greater.
Notice:
  • Moegirlpedia is not a comprehensive or professional encyclopedia. We do not support, encourage, or approve of in-depth introduction of real elements.
  • Note the difference between Moegirls and Archetypes.

Organizations

Contains doujin circles, companies, studios, physical goods stores, websites, etc. related to the industry of the works that meet the scope of inclusion.

  • Related companies, studios, etc. with only part of their business related to the ACG industry may also be included, but they should not introduce too many unrelated businesses.
  • Related websites must be mainly related to the ACG industry and be independent sites.

Activities

Contains ACGN-related projects, game/animation exhibitions, competitions, rankings, etc.;

  • In particular, if an event is only used as creative material that appears in ACGN works, it should be judged according to the conditions of archetype articles.

Software and hardware

  • "Software" here refers to software related to animation, comics, games, and music creation, special game platform software and game subscription services, ACGN character/theme customization software;
  • "Hardware" here refers to game consoles (such as home game consoles, etc.), handheld game consoles, and supporting external devices (such as controllers, etc.) developed by their companies.

Not included

Not only the content that is not in the above-mentioned scope of inclusion will not be included, but the following content will also not be included even if it meets the scope of inclusion:

  • Articles generated in batches automatically by the program;
    • Pictures generated by the copyrighted picture generation software for the same reason will not be included. (Under the premise of not violating the scope of the previous inclusion, the entry of such software itself and sample pictures are allowed to be added)
  • Content which is mainly plagiarized or disguised plagiarism from Moegirlpedia's works.

Note: When the dispute cannot be resolved through general discussion, the administrator has the right to make a final decision and end the dispute through a collective resolution in accordance with the scope of inclusion.

In the case of direct deletion

If the entry meets the following circumstances, regardless of whether it is included in the scope of inclusion, it should go directly to the deletion procedure:

  • Content that violates the laws and regulations of the place where Moegirlpedia is located;
  • Content that threatens the personal safety and legal security of Moegirlpedia users;
  • Content that has potential threats to the operational safety of Moegirlpedia.
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