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Mr. Touma's Twitter
What do you mean "random, unverified Twitter users"? toumartcom isn't a random Twitter account; it's the account of Touma, Fang's character designer and creator. Bluest Bird (talk) 20:19, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Lets take a couple steps back here - there's a number of things you haven't established yet. Everything needs to be covered by reliable sources, and there's much missing here:
Can it be confirmed that this is his Twitter account? It is not a verified account. Anyone could go out and create a Twitter account to the capacity of "Touma" and "Art".
The tweet is in Japanese. Can it be confirmed that it was correctly translated? Words often have many/multiple ways of translation.
Do we have verification that Touma is the artist at all? That's not sourced, or even mentioned, anywhere in the article.
Does it make sense to include? If no sources ever reported on this, and all we have is an off hand comment on Twitter, is it of importance?
Does it make sense to implement like you did here, where you made an already convoluted sentence even more complicated? (Try reading that opening sentence out-loud. It's a mess.)
As for confirming that that's his Twitter account, you can verify it by doing the following: Go to Touma's site[1], click on "Blog", and then click on "Twitter" on the right sidebar. It will take you to the Twitter account that posted the tweet.
About the translation, fans have translated the tweet themselves, and I ran it on Google Translate as well as an extra check. If you still doubt it, then who get someone you deem a trustworthy Japanese translator to translate it.
Finally, I would think the character's species is an important attribute about a Sonic character like him. And I disagree it makes things convoluted, as the addition was just a single sentence in parenthesis. It didn't affect the paragraph's structure or anything. Bluest Bird (talk) 23:59, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Alright, I'm fine with inclusion now that you've verified everything, though I think a different form/context may be better, as to avoid this issue happening again years in the future, with so much of the context missing to your average reader. Perhaps a separate sentence explaining something to the capacity of "According to Touma, Fang's original character designer, Fang was initially intended to be a wolf/jerboa hybrid animal" or something. Sergecross73msg me17:01, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Okay so I think I've found enough sources to split the Chaotix into their own separate article but I wanted to discuss it here before I make a move. When I was researching for Knuckles' Chaotix, I found that the coverage of the characters was not stuff like "I like Espio" or "I don't like Vector". Some of the old magazine articles (such as this one) went into excessive, in-depth detail on what each character's abilities were, controlled like, how they affected gameplay, and looked like. I've also found GameSpot and Destructoid articles dedicated entirely to them. Any thoughts? JOEBRO64 01:09, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
It's hard to say, since you really only showed one source (though that one does look good.) but I'd recommend having a really strong case if you go for it - in the last few years, there's been a real trend of cutting down on articles for side Sonic characters (there's been like 8-10 merged I think now) and there's been a bunch of recent Sonic mergers lately too. Fictions video game characters are generally pretty difficult - sources commonly don't provide significant coverage, and there's a number of experienced editors who patrol the area and redirect/merge them. Sergecross73msg me01:38, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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