User talk:JD25

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Hi, welcome to ! Thanks for your edit to the Template talk:Affiliates page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! Glass Heart (talk) 02:33, January 28, 2014 (UTC)

Affiliation
Hey JD25. I've approved the Iron Knight Wiki affiliation. By the way, for a Wiki of a series under a quick and imminent cancellation, you guys have done an exceptional job. I'm sorry Iron Knight didn't turn out to be as popular as you guys had hoped for. -- FOAM (Talk)  00:10, February 2, 2014 (UTC)


 * You've never heard of Weekly Shonen Jump's Table of Contents before, have you? See, when it comes to Weekly Shonen Jump in particular, the magazine hosts an extremely competitive environment for series to survive. Each issue of the magazine has a Table of Contents. No one knows exactly how it works or how the order is determined, but it basically reflects how well a series is performing in the magazine week by week. For example, you have the most popular series, like One Piece, Assassination Classroom or Shokugeki no Soma, consistently appearing at the top of the list, whereas any series at risk of getting cancelled would be put at or near the bottom. Although the Table of Contents doesn't set anything in stone, there are a few trends that always occur time and time again.


 * For example, any new series in the magazine is given about 7-8 weeks before the readers and editors decide whether it should stay in the magazine or get cancelled. If they decide to cancel the series, it'd usually be given a grace period of about another 7-10 weeks to conclude itself. The Table of Contents reflects this by having a new series placed randomly throughout the magazine until about 7-8 weeks in. Afterwards, if the series proves to be unpopular, it would fall to the bottom of the Table of Contents until cancellation. Iron Knight's performance on the Table of Contents matches that of a typical new series about to get cancelled.


 * Here's a podcast partially dedicated to explaining how the Weekly Shonen Jump Table of Contents tends to work (skip to 1:12):
 * http://ia601703.us.archive.org/29/items/FEV11STARS/FEV11-STARS.mp3


 * You can also visit this link, which tracks the magazine's Table of Contents week by week:
 * http://weeklyjump.livejournal.com/


 * Overall, I wouldn't say it's "solid" evidence, because I don't think there exists any when it comes to predicting series' performances, but it's about as close as it can get. -- FOAM (Talk)  01:16, February 2, 2014 (UTC)