User:Inept Wiki User/SandboxOpen

This open sandbox is intended for work and other stuff involving close collaboration with certain other contributors (who are permitted to perform certain agreed edits to the respective collaborative sections).

=For Admins & related persons=
 * Suggestion: Restriction on YP-related edits for the near-future, so that things don't get out of hand, and are discussed and planned properly.
 * Problem regarding large sections of text in many articleswhich are a tad too flowery and a bit messy. Recommended solution?
 * Category shift due to page rename, Artwork by Fuyukawa Motoi.

Polls

 * Virtual-On
 * Index III
 * Poll switch/agreement

News

 * (October 05, 2014) Dengeki Autumn Festival 2014 Final Project Announcement: As previously announced, an event was held at the Dengeki Autumn Festival 2014 at Akihabara UDX, where they announced the final project at the event for the Kamachi Kazuma 'Toaru Majutsu no Index' 10th Anniversary. The event featured Abe Atsushi, Iguchi Yuka and Satou Rina (voice actors for Kamijou Touma, Index and Misaka Mikoto respectively) as guests. After much anticipation, they announced an anime adaptation of Kamachi's Heavy Object series as the final announcement.


 * (February 10th 2015)

Featured
Toaru Majutsu no Index Wiki:Featured articles
 * Note: Some of the previous featured articles are somewhat messy.

Used:
 * Terminology: Ability Body Crystal • Amakusa-Style Remix of Church • Angel • Church of England • Grimoire • GROUP • Gungnir • Norse Mythology • Multi Active Rescue • Power Curriculum Program • Runes
 * Characters: Aiwass • Aleister Crowley • Aureolus Izzard • Cendrillon • Fräulein Kreutune • Kihara Enshuu • Laura Stuart • Matthai Reese • Misaka 9982 • Mitsuari Ayu • Ollerus • Orsola Aquinas • Othinus • Shokuhou Misaki • Thor • Yakumi Hisako
 * Locations: Endymion • Imaginary Number District–Five Elements Institution • Third Resource Recycling Processing Facility • Windowless Building
 * Story Arcs and Events: Academy City Invasion Arc • Acqua of the Back Arc • British Halloween • Document of Constantine Arc • Hawaii Invasion Arc • Index Arc • Magic God Othinus Arc • Level 6 Shift attempt on Misaka Mikoto • Sisters Arc
 * Light Novels: Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Necessarius Special Admission Test
 * Anime: Toaru Majutsu no Index Movie: Miracle of Endymion
 * Videogames: Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax

Candidates: (consider possible issues to others/compare to previous articles)
 * 1) Mass driver (too small? Chronology)
 * 2) Toaru Majutsu to Kagaku no Puzzdex (requires more work beforehand? not straight after Dengeki Climax)
 * 3) Military Oil (images/tweaks?)(Nominate)
 * 4) September space launches (Nominate: September)
 * 5) Hikoboshi II (no images)
 * 6) Phase (images? tweaks?)(Nominate)
 * 7) Gremlin (True) (no images)
 * 8) Cthulhu (low content/images?)
 * 9) Aztec Calendar Stone (low images?)
 * 10) Magical life forms (no images, awkward positioning)
 * 11) Setting (incomplete?)
 * 12) Ascalon (incomplete, no Chronology)
 * 13) Hrunting (incomplete, no Chronology)
 * 14) Radiosonde Castle (needs refining)
 * 15) Rensa (check)
 * 16) Pantagruel (spoiler? low images?)
 * 17) AIM Burst(revise)
 * 18) Sample Shoggoth (low images?)
 * 19) La Regina del Mare Adriatico (revise?)
 * 20) Leep (revise)
 * 21) Cynthia Exment (revise initial paragraph?)(Nominate)
 * 22) Tree Diagram (?)(Nominate)
 * 23) Four elements (small errors)(Nominate)
 * 24) Alchemy
 * 25) FIVE Over (missing Chronology section)(Nominate)

Nominees (05/03/2016):
 * 1) Military Oil (images/tweaks?)
 * 2) September space launches (September?)
 * 3) Phase (images? tweaks?)
 * 4) Cynthia Exment (revise initial paragraph?)
 * 5) Tree Diagram (?)
 * 6) Runes (low images?)(selected for March)
 * 7) Four elements (small errors)
 * 8) FIVE Over (missing Chronology section)

Selection:
 * 1) March: Runes
 * 2) November: Sample Shoggoth
 * 3) February
 * 4) March
 * 5) April
 * May
 * 1) June
 * 2) July

Draft 2

 * Image Candidates:
 * Stiyl using element of fire (only semi-suitable image in article itself)
 * Cleanup before featuring article.

Draft 3

 * Image Candidates (current one (Omega World) a little unsuitable?)
 * Diagram (similar to the timeline example)?

Visual Editor-added Reference Quotes Article List
Note: These are just the instances known to have occurred during the June-Early August 2014 period, there are probably more.

June
(11-13 gap)
 * Three Stories Arc (June 8th) (Half-Done)
 * Kamijou Touma/Personality and Relationships (June 8th)
 * Tokiwadai Dorm Supervisor (June 17th)
 * Kamijou Touma/Chronology (Toaru Majutsu no Index) (June 18th)
 * Daihasei Festival Arc (Railgun) (June 19th)
 * Misaka Mikoto (June 19th)
 * Ollerus (June 20th)
 * La Persona Superiore a Dio (June 20th) (Done)
 * Accelerator‎‎ (June 20th)
 * Leivinia Birdway (June 26th)
 * Osad Flakehelm (June 27th) (Done)
 * Misaka Mikoto/Chronology (Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index) (June 27th)
 * Index Librorum Prohibitorum (June 27th)
 * Aureolus Izzard (June 27th)
 * School District 18 (June 29th) (Done)
 * Mugino Shizuri (June 29th)
 * Misaka Mikoto/Chronology (Toaru Kagaku no Railgun) (June 29th)

July

 * Misaka Worst (July 3rd)
 * ITEM (July 3rd)(Done)
 * Scavenger (July 3rd) (Done)
 * Seven Deadly Sins (July 5th)
 * Fukiyose Seiri (July 5th)
 * Unified Story Timeline (July 6th)
 * Will of the Whole Misaka Network (July 6th)
 * Denmark (July 7th) (Done)
 * Kakine Teitoku (July 8th)
 * Tsukuyomi Komoe (July 9th)
 * Fiamma of the Right (July 10th)
 * Index Arc (July 10th)
 * Heaven Canceller's Hospital (July 10th)
 * Aiwass (July 10th)
 * Multi-Skill (July 11th) (Done)
 * Heaven Canceller (July 12th)
 * Aleister Crowley (July 13th)
 * Aogami Pierce (July 13th)
 * Misaka Mikoto (July 13th)
 * Shokuhou Misaki‎ (July 13th)
 * Takitsubo Rikou (July 13th)
 * Nunotaba Shinobu‎ (July 13th)
 * Frenda Seivelun‎ (July 13th)
 * Kinuhata Saiai (July 13th)
 * Kusakabe Yumi (July 13th)
 * Keitz Nokleben‎ (July 13th)
 * Battle Royale Arc (July 15th)
 * Magic God Othinus Arc (July 19th)
 * Academy City (July 20th)
 * Sasha Kreutzev (July 20th) (Done)
 * Last Order (July 20th)
 * Grimoire (July 22nd) (Done)
 * Full-Tuning (Jul 31st) (Done)

August

 * Level 6 Shift attempt on Misaka Mikoto (Aug 1) (Done)

Date unknown

 * Kamijou Touma/Chronology (Toaru Kagaku no Railgun)
 * Thor
 * Yoshikawa Kikyou

General

 * Article summaries/text problems (floweriness, waffle, not flowing well, nearly directly copying and pasting from source etc - some things along those lines seem to be a bit of a problem) (perhaps a bit of stiltedness in the case of some of my contributions)
 * User Profile - is description adequate in conveying the problem?
 * Long overdue replies - still OK to do so?
 * Are my work and conduct not as good as they should be? Possible ways to improve?
 * Concerns regarding a certain insidious encroachment, however can't put thoughts into words properly (will continue trying to do so, though time may be short) - also concerns about provoking it with the T. Guide
 * Discussion Subject: Articles & Excessiveness
 * True that some work needs to be done, however it shouldn't be rushed ahead with, otherwise an equally-as-bad mess will be created in place of the existing one. Mustn't be impatient.
 * Compose a list of articles that require work done to them and sort according to size/level of work needed etc?

Articles

 * Russian Shopping Centre - Confirm name
 * Golden-style Magic principles (on Golden Dawn, under Principles)
 * Academy City cooperative institution (as there are others besides the ones which formed the Science Guardians)
 * S? Liquid Metal Factory (there is a difference between translated versions - which is correct? Shinohara Liquid Material Factory)
 * Trivia page (Title unknown, Not certain if advisable) counting instances of certain recurring trivia within series (e.g. certain running gags and catchphrases, such as Sogebu, Fukou da!s, Kamijou punches, Index bites etc) (confirm name)
 * Kiya Shii - Gallery section out of Background?
 * Split page articles: Template with Top Navigation and Infobox in one, to minimize manual adjustment for all pages?
 * Check whether it is the case that no one else wishes to do the Merchandise pages.

Images

 * Haimura's artwork category doesn't follow the same naming pattern as the others (i.e. Family name first) - change?
 * FURs (Fair-Use Rationales) for Images (Is the lack of them a concern?)
 * Renaming certain images with better names
 * White Beetle - Haimura to Kiya

=Collaborative Work=

Voodoo
Voodoo (ブードゥ) is an African diaspora religion, a mishmash of Afro-Caribbean witchcraft and necromancy.
 * User:All fictions/Article Drafts

Principles
AF:
 * 1: Voodoo comes in two major flavors: Haitian Vodou (also Vodun or Voudoun) and New Orleans Voodoo. Both derive from West African Dahomeyan religions, along with Lucumi/Santeria, Umbanda, Candomble, and similar beliefs, which share certain similarities. The slave trade brought these beliefs to the New World, where they became syncretized with the Catholicism and Francophone culture of the slave owners, with a little Native American influence where applicable. Louisiana Voodoo is closely tied to hoodoo, a form of folk magic from which come the famous gris-gris bags and mojo hands. Many such practitioners officially identify as Catholic. Haitian Vodou is an ecstatic religion, focusing on possession by the spirits or lwa (loa).
 * 2:
 * Voodoo comes in two major flavors: Haitian Vodou (also Vodun or Voudoun) and New Orleans Voodoo. Both derive from West African Dahomeyan religions, along with Lucumi/Santeria, Umbanda, Candomble, and similar beliefs, which share certain similarities. The slave trade brought these beliefs to the New World, where they became syncretized with the Catholicism and Francophone culture of the slave owners, with a little Native American influence where applicable.
 * Like most Magic, Voodoo Magic has a variety of uses, the most known are Necromancy and using Voodoo dolls (an effigy of a person) to manipulate them from a distance. The user can utilize voodoo magic, ie. access supernatural forces to improve their daily lives to attain power or success ("luck") in many areas of life including money, love, divination, revenge, health, employment, and necromancy. Extensive use is made of herbs, minerals, parts of animals' bodies, an individual's possessions and bodily fluids, but in most cases, the individual have to offer up someone very close to them in order to sell their souls, eventually culminating in paying with their own lives.

There are a number of concepts which are commonly associated with Voodoo, some originating from cultures where Voodoo is also present, but are technically the result of misconceptions or falsities. Despite this, these concepts and their association with Voodoo can be put into practice regardless.

In-Series Fragments:
 * Spells can be cast using a mirror and a sword.
 * Present in the Carribean where pirates once ruled.

Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index
A member of the true Gremlin, Zombie, has a background rooted in Voodoo as well as actively drawing in a great number of cultures, giving her an affinity for almost anything which allowed her to devise a spell which would allow the Magic Gods to safely enter the world after their Hidden World was breached. Toyama Luca of the Kamisato Faction also makes use of Voodoo-based magic as a follower of Legba Atibon.

Uses of Voodoo and associated concepts in the story

 * Legba Atibon: A loa who serves as the intermediary between the loa and humanity, standing at a spiritual crossroads, and a facilitator of communication, speech and understanding, believed to speak all human languages.
 * Luca follows Legba Atibon and makes use of his role as a deity who manages ceremonies (indirectly appearing in all Voodoo ceremonies through his role as intermediary), therefore not just existing on a specific ceremonial day but at all times, to achieve control of subjective time, allowing her to change the age of her external appearance and prepare magic normally once-in-a-decade in seconds.
 * Sacrificial Rituals: There are some pacts associated with Voodoo which involve a person selling their soul to gain power and require them to regularly sacrifice others, otherwise they pay with their own life. These sacrifices can't just be anyone and have to be people whom it pains them to sacrifice, such as family members or lovers.
 * Salome refers to Voodoo practitioners who, having sold their soul, must annually sacrifice someone dear to them or forfeit their own life, when describing her own sacrificial magic and what she has sacrificed.
 * Voodoo Dolls: Effigies which represent a person, sometimes with a piece of them attached, and used to manipulate or bring harm upon them.
 * The Lotus Wand's method of causing attacks based on effects occurring to the wand is noted to be similar to the ones used on voodoo dolls.
 * (Infection Magic, Ushi no Koku Mairi, Idol Theory Reversal)
 * Zombie: Originating from Haitan culture and associated with Voodoo, a dead person reanimated as an undead or a person placed into a death-like trance, through magic, to serve as a slave.
 * A Magic God of the true Gremlin is known as Zombie and has a background in Voodoo.

Categories
Category:Terminology, Category:Magic, Category:Magic Formats

Soul

 * User:All fictions/Article Drafts
 * Principles: Basic concept and beliefs (no subsection heading), Magic, Science
 * Sub-sections for specific belief systems (e.g. Christianity, Buddhism, Shinto, Norse etc) under initial or magic?
 * Link to doppelganger page once made.

The soul (魂) is an aspect believed to be the spiritual essence of a living being.

Etymology

 * Soul derivation? (EN/JP)
 * Soul (魂)

Principles
The soul is said to be an incorporeal part of a living being, holding their spiritual essence and consciousness. (Spirit relation/overlap) ? (expand)

In many cultures, after a person's death, their soul is believed to persist, leaving the body and passing into an afterlife realm, often dictated by their actions in life (such as with Heaven and Hell), or move through the cycle of reincarnation to be reborn in a new body and start life anew. (Ref) In some stories, there are souls that are barred from the afterlife and left to wander the earth (such as Jack-o'-Lantern). There are often various rites intended to assist the soul in its passage, and figures believed to act as guides. (additional references) There are also some means intended to communicate with the souls of the dead. (More Ref)

There are also various stories of people who sold their own soul to a supernatural entity, such as the devil, in order to achieve a goal or attain power. (More ref)

The Imagine Breaker apparently doesn't work on souls, even if they are of supernatural origin.

Magic
Despite the fact that modern magic revolves around refining life force into magic power, few magicians have a clear answer as to what the soul actually is. There are various theories, some more prominent than others, but there is little proof as to which is correct.

Though the mechanisms of the soul are not fully understood, there are magical methods to duplicate it and magicians can create physical bodies to act as containers for the soul despite not properly understanding it. The creation of magical life forms is one example of this. There are also spells intended to affect a target's soul, and means of tracing people through magical power based on the link to the soul.

There are a number of fields of magic involving the souls of the dead, their passage and communication with them. One of these is necromancy, which includes rituals to communicate with the dead and to help them pass through the gates of heaven. In some of these rituals, necromancers can place a false soul (偽りの魄) into a corpse, in order to put the "residual memory" to rest and close its "spiritual circuit". These false souls can possess and operate corpses, being able to animate them to a certain extent and act autonomously.

Magic Names are supposedly carved onto a magician's soul.

Science
In the past, there were a number of scientific theories made involving the soul, such as resulting in a loss of mass from a corpse after death, which have been disproven.

In modern times, on the Science Side, the soul is often seen as an occult concept and something of superstition. Despite this, there has been at least one experiment in Academy City which had observing the creation of a soul (魂の生成) as a secret secondary objective. The subject of the experiment, Kuriba Ryouko, had her body split in two and the two halves having the other half replaced with machines, forming two cyborgs. After living separately for a year, the two were recombined into one. The split apparently had the effect of creating another soul from Ryouko's, one which came to reside in the mechanical components which were left over after Ryouko's human body was recombined, and assembled.

According to Ryouko, unlike other souls, thought to be linked to the body and destroyed when it ceases to function, the doppelganger's soul is apparently merely stored inside the mechanical body and if the container was destroyed, it would be freed from its restraints and spread to its surroundings. She also theorized that the abnormal "free soul" (自由な魂) would be able to possess anything or possibly, in the worst case scenario, engulf the city itself.

Following research into where esper abilities originate from through dissection, Hishigata came to the conclusion that it had something to do with the soul.

Background/Chronology

 * Index: Endymion SS, NT14BTL2

Dream Ranker Arc
Kuriba Ryouko participated in an experiment where she was split into two cyborgs for a year before being recombined into one, which had the effect of creating a soul which was left inside the combined cyborg parts. After learning of her doppelganger's existence, Ryouko recognized the potential risks, which were ignored by the scientists. Unable to come up with a solution with her own knowledge, she created and distributed the Indian Poker cards in hopes of finding someone capable of making a breakthrough. The doppelganger eventually realized what she was, escaped the laboratory and sought out her original. At the same time, Misaka Mikoto and Shokuhou Misaki made contact with Ryouko, having learnt of the experiment and followed the Indian Poker trail. Not long afterwards, following a meeting between the two Ryoukos, the doppelganger was damaged during a battle with Scavenger.

Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator

 * During the events surrounding DA, false souls were used in the Coffins (Hirumi) and by Estelle Rosenthal through necromancy.
 * Hishigata's theory.

Known Artificial Souls

 * Exclude for now, only include if definition refined.

Magic

 * Aureolus Dummy
 * Element

Science

 * Kuriba Ryouko (Doppelganger)

Translation Guide

 * Primary: User:OH&S, User:Herald of meridian
 * Suggest synching with YP notes? V1, V2, V3?
 * Character section suggestion: Name, JP, Rom, Speech pattern note (watashi, ore, boku etc), More common single name reference in text (Primary Narrative Single Name Reference(s), Primary Single Name Narrative References (PSNNR)?), Notes
 * Possible page division? Divide by volume groups?

This is a guide to the various terms, translations, transliterations etc, used by different groups, both official and unofficial, translating the Toaru series.

Alternative titles: Translations

N/A = Not available/applicable

(Anti-quarrel notice required? Note on no truly absolute translation and how it is kind of more of an art than a science)

Type-1: Individual Translations

 * Individual translation analysis

Key:
 * Wiki: This is either the current title of the wiki article on the relevant subject or if it doesn't have an article, the name by which it is most commonly referred to by on the wiki.
 * Japanese: The name or title of the subject in Japanese.
 * Romaji: The romaji version of the subject's name/title in Japanese.
 * Lit: Short for literally, regarding literal translations.
 * Trans: Translations of the subject into English.
 * Notes: Additional notes concerning translation of the subject, as well as other aspects concerning the subject (e.g. for characters, the more common single name (Given/Family) reference in text (Primary Narrative Single Name Reference(s), Primary Single Name Narrative References (PSNNR)?), their speech pattern (e.g. use of watashi, ore, boku etc), references from others etc)

Type-2: Multiple Translators

 * Multiple translator translations

Key:
 * Wiki: This is either the current title of the wiki article on the relevant subject or if it doesn't have an article, the name by which it is most commonly referred to by on the wiki.
 * Japanese: The name or title of the subject in Japanese.
 * Romaji: The romaji version of the subject's name/title in Japanese.
 * Lit: Short for literally, regarding literal translations.
 * Trans: Translations of the subject into English.
 * Funi: The English translation of the subject's name/title used in Funimation translations
 * 7S: The English translation of the subject's name/title used in Seven Seas translations
 * YP: The English translation of the subject's name/title used in Yen Press translations
 * Notes: Additional notes regarding the translator's translations.

Type-3: Multiple Languages
=References=
 * Multiple language translations