Monster Bios Are STILL In Major Need Of Some Work

[PitchBlackProgress]

So I often see a TK vs. Wikizilla war go on among sites and it’s often about which has the better information, and to be honest, TK is kinda lacking, Wikizilla has suit actors, designers, concept art, etc.

I know there’s been steady work at updating the bios here but we’re Toho Kingdom, damn it, we need to be the absolute info outlet on all things Toho

I thought we could use this thread to discuss what else the bios could use to spruce em up, comment below.

[ROMG4]

Wikizilla's a larger community meanwhile the staff at TK is less then 10 people and Arbok is the only one who can post updates

Either way anyone trying to start a "war" is a mere child. Both sides ESPECIALLY TK have been responsible for the education of the fanbase on Godzilla trivia in particular translation of Japanese textbooks

Essentially Wikizilla has more manpower and TK has less. Both sites are good it's taken decades to get a content database let alone two as trustworthy as they are now

We should be very happy we are finally catching up to other fanbases in terms of information collection and everything

[Zarm]

I definitely run into some of these- disappointing that they are only couple-paragraph bios instead of in-depth breakdowns like others on the site.

Maybe TK can set up a volunteer staffer program to help with the manpower needs to collect and write this data (which can then be reviewed and checked by a qualified staffer or something, to maintain QC standards?)

[ROMG4]

I definitely run into some of these- disappointing that they are only couple-paragraph bios instead of in-depth breakdowns like others on the site.

Maybe TK can set up a volunteer staffer program to help with the manpower needs to collect and write this data (which can then be reviewed and checked by a qualified staffer or something, to maintain QC standards?)

I wish Arbok would remove his restriction on not posting content to the main site that wasn't made by a site staff member

Forum users were able to post reviews on content years ago. In-fact the vast majority of Toy Reviews were user made rather then Site Staff

Not to mention books and other movie reviews

[UltramanGoji]

It's movie reviews that are restricted. Non-staff can still send in reviews for books, music, and the like. I submitted a book review last year (though, strangely, it doesn't show up on the main Book page).

[Arbok]

It's movie reviews that are restricted. Non-staff can still send in reviews for books, music, and the like.

This is correct. The main issue is man power from the combined staff for a lot of things, naturally. Also, just to clear any misconceptions, Joshua Sudomerski is able to code and update and does a LOT of work on the site behind the scenes as well. Most of Chris' updates are thanks to Joshua's work in getting those updates live. Patrick Galvan also is able to code and release updates as well.

That said, the concept behind the blog, and how it's slowly absorbing other categories, is to introduce a way so more people can update, one that doesn't involve direct coding and FTP work. It hasn't panned out how I hoped so far, but ideally this is a gateway to getting a larger body of people that can do work on the site that is not dependent on me, Joshua or Patrick to execute on and therefore removing a bottleneck.

I submitted a book review last year (though, strangely, it doesn't show up on the main Book page).

Crap! Could you tell me what book is missing from the listing?

[UltramanGoji]

It's movie reviews that are restricted. Non-staff can still send in reviews for books, music, and the like.

This is correct. The main issue is man power from the combined staff for a lot of things, naturally. Also, just to clear any misconceptions, Joshua Sudomerski is able to code and update and does a LOT of work on the site behind the scenes as well. Most of Chris' updates are thanks to Joshua's work in getting those updates live. Patrick Galvan also is able to code and release updates as well.

That said, the concept behind the blog, and how it's slowly absorbing other categories, is to introduce a way so more people can update, one that doesn't involve direct coding and FTP work. It hasn't panned out how I hoped so far, but ideally this is a gateway to getting a larger body of people that can do work on the site that is not dependent on me, Joshua or Patrick to execute on and therefore removing a bottleneck.

I submitted a book review last year (though, strangely, it doesn't show up on the main Book page).

Crap! Could you tell me what book is missing from the listing?

It's Collecting Japanese Movie Monsters. You can still find it via the Search engine.

https://www.tohokingdom.com/books/colle ... sters.html

And while I've got you on the line and we're talking about the blog, any chance at restoring the old sidebar with the ongoing projects? It's kind of a pain to find them now with the new layout. You have to actually dig through the page numbers at the bottom to find any of them.

[Arbok]

It's Collecting Japanese Movie Monsters. You can still find it via the Search engine.

Sorry about that, it's on the Books now.

And while I've got you on the line and we're talking about the blog, any chance at restoring the old sidebar with the ongoing projects? It's kind of a pain to find them now with the new layout. You have to actually dig through the page numbers at the bottom to find any of them.

Sorry to hear about the navigation aspect, although sadly that change won't happen for the blog section. That said, we have moved out many of the ongoing projects to an area of the site that will be rebranded as TK Projects & Media:

https://www.tohokingdom.com/media.htm

[UltramanGoji]

Sorry to hear about the navigation aspect, although sadly that change won't happen for the blog section. That said, we have moved out many of the ongoing projects to an area of the site that will be rebranded as TK Projects & Media:

https://www.tohokingdom.com/media.htm

Fair enough, this is definitely a fine compromise. I'm sure I could find anything else I need with the Search engine.

[PitchBlackProgress]

I think a nice way to update the bios and make them all they can be would be to add aliases, suit actors, concept art, designers, behind the scenes creation of the suits (if they exists), kinda merge some analysis art from the Analysis page, yadda yadda, really go all out and make this THE place for information.
I’m not telling anyone to get right on itof course, just spit balling ideas and I’d love to hear more