Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Yotsuba&! chapters

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The list was promoted 00:56, 28 December 2007.

List of Yotsuba&! chapters

This is a list of the volumes and chapters of the manga Yotsuba&!. It's modeled after equivalent FLs for manga such as List of Claymore chapters and List of Naruto chapters (Part I), and I believe it qualifies under the criteria for featured lists. The volume summaries are not of excessive length, other relevant information is covered, and it satisfies other criteria for writing about works of fiction. —Quasirandom (talk) 14:49, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose A few minor formatting issues, but mostly need better introduction of new plot points and characters:
- Support all my concerns were addressed.

Addressed concerns

- The plot summaries need to properly link new characters to what has been mentioned. Many characters are introduced by their first without saying what is their relation. Are they the Ayase (in vols. 1 and 2)? We have no way to know.
  - Ah -- I was relying on the main article for that. Does the current version take care of this? —Quasirandom (talk) 15:03, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- In the last volume, three different chapters are given as having original serialized with the same title, are those actually correct or copy-pasting mistakes?
  - Yes, that is actually correct -- three chapters with the almost the same title (to order misspelling and punctuation). This caused some comment on discussion boards as they came out. —Quasirandom (talk) 14:57, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Please use proper m-dashes — where appropriate instead of multiple hyphens.
  - Done. Good catch. —Quasirandom (talk) 14:57, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Can you hyphenates the ISBNs? (see here for how to get the second part.)
  - Done. Thanks for the link. —Quasirandom (talk) 15:14, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Circeus (talk) 05:04, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support - I feel it meets all the criteria. Superb work. Cheers, Sephiroth BCR ^(Converse) 23:10, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Conditional Support - This is a great looking list and a very good format for multi-volume series. I am not quite sure I understand the story date. Could this be any year. Must it be a modern year. Did this character have internet or cellphone access. Can you give me some sense of what July 20 means. Is the whole thing set in 2003 with each volume covering a few days or weeks.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 01:35, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The story date is a somewhat confusing issue. The series is not set in any one year. According to the cited interview with the author, each chapter should be considered as taking place in the year it was published. That said, about 3 months of story time have passed in the 4 years during which the seven volumes have been published. Thus, a chapter taking place a week after one seven chapters back, but published in the next year is "in" the next year as well. Any assistance in clarifying how this is worded in the the article appreciated.
(I should thought of this before bring this to FLC, but until after Christmas, my ability to log on will be spotty because of holiday travel; I'll try to at least check here once at day.) —Quasirandom (talk) 03:49, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this means that it's always set in the present day. For instance, if (hypothetically) the story date was July 20, but the chapter came out in 2004, and the story date for the next chapter was July 21, but the chapter came out in 2005, the presence of an Xbox 360 (which was released on May 12, 2005) would be justifiable. Sephiroth BCR ^(Converse) 05:50, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That would be correct. —Quasirandom (talk) 20:01, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I guess using the wording above about it being set in the present day with a similar exemplary explanation would be helpful.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 22:14, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It already does:

These dates provide a contextual basis for the series, as although the year the story is based in was believed to be 2003, coinciding with the date of the manga's serialization, Kiyohiko Azuma asserted that the manga takes place in the present day.[5] This allows the appearance of products created after 2003, such as the Nintendo DS Mr. Ayase plays in chapter forty-two.

Sephiroth BCR ^(Converse) 06:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.