CWCki talk:Transcription Style

Rough outline

I REALLY need to go to bed but quick outline

• unless it's really bad, don't phonetically transcribe everything Chris says - just because he slurs "you" to sound somewhat like "jew" does not mean the transcript should read "jew."
• link to other articles in transcripts
• some sort of unified color coding, that sort of shit.

I'll finish this a bit later. --Champthom 11:52, 26 December 2009 (CET)

Individual concerns

I find myself overusing ",uh ," and just commas in general, particularly here. Does this need to be addressed? --Robotnik 13:58, 26 December 2009 (CET)

• If Chris says it, that's what gets written down. Don't feel like a bad transcriber just because the speech that you're transcribing is an affront to the English language. Llort 18:26, 26 December 2009 (CET)

I find myself taking little liberties when describing the action onscreen. Example:

[Chris waves the two figures around, and recites a strange chant, possibly implying that Sonichu and Rosechu do their housework by levitating and crying out to wicked pagan gods.]

Is this okay, or should I stop?--Beat 17:47, 26 December 2009 (CET)

• I'd only write "[waves figures around]" and then get right into transcribing the chant itself, leaving it to the readers to draw their own inferences from Chris's HFA behavior. Your longer version is funny, but I'd still drop it. Llort 18:26, 26 December 2009 (CET)

• Ditto. I also dislike things being described as "retarded" like "Chris begins to speak in a retarded voice." I think it's up to the reader to determine in the context if something is "retarded" or not and "retarded" is a subjective term. Obviously if Chris speaks in a girly voice, then say that as it's pretty universal what a girl's voice sounds like but "retarded" can mean anything. --Champthom 08:15, 28 December 2009 (CET)

Aw! But that's my favorite part of transcribing!  :( --Beat 18:30, 26 December 2009 (CET)

Wikifying

Transcripts REALLY need to be wikified. Some of you complain that it's hard to see with the coloring and in that case, wiki links should take precedence over color coding. This is a wiki, articles (including transcripts) should link to other articles for clarifying notes and that is more important than fun color coding. --Champthom 18:02, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Break tags

I fucking hate break tags, and would like to encourage all users to avoid them. In the giant transcriptions of long conversations, they make all the words run together which makes it harder for idiots like me to read them. Granted, I used them myself in the reformatting of the IRC transcripts, but only because those were actual text documents, and that was the closest way to represent their original format.

But I'm sure you all have your own opinions on this. Especially YOU, Blunderscore, who went and added break tags to my flawless formatting of mumble 1.

So let's argue about this already.--Beat 18:00, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

I don't like them either, but I do like how they make the spaces between the lines smaller. I'll look in to some template possibly that can wrap around transcriptions to format them nicer without the need for break tags. --Anonymax 18:06, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

stuttering, "uh", "um", and the like

This is just my opinion about transcribing conversations... I think every stutter that comes out of Chris's mouth should be transcribed, but for the other people it doesn't matter if you skip some "um"s and "uh"s, as long as it makes sense and you're not leaving out anything important. Chris's quotes are really the only ones that matter. I just wanted to mention this because maybe it'll make it a little easier for people transcribing the many hours of Kacey phone calls, but if I'm wrong someone let me know. Acousticvirgin 20:50, 7 March 2011 (PST)

I totally understand what you're getting at... I think there was probably 100 or more "I mean", "um", "yeah", or some form of stuttering on Kacey's part alone on Kacey call 8 that I would have LOVED to leave out...but I don't know if leaving them out is the right choice... We transcribe them for a reason I guess, so I always try to keep everything word for word and letter for letter...even when the stuttering and repetition start to make me want to bash my face into a wall. But that's just my opinion. --4Macie 22:14, 7 March 2011 (PST)

As a personal rule I kept them in unless it got to confusing to follow the thought, or it was just a mess of stuttering and uh/uh-ing, and I'd just note "bunch of stuttering" or something. But yeah, it can be hard getting through them, but I think they should be included too. Kudos to the 2 of you for doing so much of them! FourPLUStwo 22:24, 7 March 2011 (PST)

Color Coded Actions

I've seen on a few Transcripts that actions are colour coded too, but on other Transcripts actions are in black text. whats the correct way when transcripting actions? HitIar "wunderbar!" 13:01, 24 August 2011 (PDT)