What kinds of links in synopses are allowed?

[pearhi]

I'm planning to upload an old manga excerpt from an artbook/doujinshi to the website, but wanted to also put a link in the synopsis for where to find scans for the entire doujinshi. The doujinshi's like 22 years old if that makes any difference. Is this is an acceptable use of links in the synopsis?

Thank you in advance.

 

[RogueKitsune]

There is a section in the MD style guide that talks about links in description, but I am too lazy right now to pull it up on my phone. So here is what I remember of the top of my head....

Generally speaking there shouldn't be any links in the description/synopsis, but exceptions have been made for links to additional retail/official sources and some information that is directly relevant to the tile (i.e. if it won an award a link to an article or similar that covers it).

Links to unofficial sources, information not directly relevant (i.e "has an anime") and similar should not be added.


If I am not shit (or someone doesn't beat me to it) I will link the style guide later

 

[Manko-sensei]

The aforementioned Style Guide is on Tutorials, [EN]Creating New Title Pages. Links are normally put in their sections, synopses are not meant to be of links (and you can add one synopsis per language) but some titles have one in special cases. From what you're describing you want to put a link where we can find the original doujinshi, right? If it is official (Pixiv, author's page, etc.), put it on "Official Sites" and "Raw", however if it's from elsewhere (for instance e-hentai, your group webpage, Internet Archive, etc.) the link should not be added anywhere. In fact, it is not allowed to post links to aggregators or pirate sites (such as torrent pages) if that's the case, otherwise you can always put it in on the comments or the credits page (just make sure it is not uploaded on a forbidden site per MangaDex rules).

 

[bondejeger]

Only links I've seen are alternative raws (like nico nico seiga) and the official twitter of the series.

 

[HDMI1]

Only links I've seen are alternative raws (like nico nico seiga) and the official twitter of the series.

Or to the translated web novel

 

[Roler]

There are lots of things in descriptions that should not be in descriptions. They're currently being used as a dumping ground for links, which is not the intended purpose.

• Author/artist links should be moved to the author pages.
• Any links to official releases should be moved to the appropriate language description - please do not copy and paste a pile of several language links into every language description. The Japanese description should not have links to French, Spanish and Arabic translations, but I keep seeing this.
• Links to alternative official releases can be left in the description for now, and should be moved to the Links section when the link rework is complete and multiple Official links (per language) are possible.
• Wikipedia links and other entirely non-manga related websites should be removed.

The non-English descriptions will be used when the frontend gets proper localisation support, and will be prominently visible instead of being hidden away as they are now.

 

[pearhi]

The aforementioned Style Guide is on Tutorials, [EN]Creating New Title Pages. Links are normally put in their sections, synopses are not meant to be of links (and you can add one synopsis per language) but some titles have one in special cases. From what you're describing you want to put a link where we can find the original doujinshi, right? If it is official (Pixiv, author's page, etc.), put it on "Official Sites" and "Raw", however if it's from elsewhere (for instance e-hentai, your group webpage, Internet Archive, etc.) the link should not be added anywhere. In fact, it is not allowed to post links to aggregators or pirate sites (such as torrent pages) if that's the case, otherwise you can always put it in on the comments or the credits page (just make sure it is not uploaded on a forbidden site per MangaDex rules).

This is what I was looking for - especially the example with the Internet Archive. Thank you!

 

[TestAddress]

As long there are no images in synopsis and does not use UTF-64 emojis. F or them.