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I'll cut it right to the chase. There's been a lot of controversy lately related to Yu-Gi-Oh profiles and whatnot, and how the original manga is practically featless and all the feats that were previously used and calculated come from the anime.
Some people insist that you should 100% use only the manga in all circumstances and ignore other sources and adaptations.
Others, like myself, disagree. I believe that using things such as adaptations are completely fine, depending on the series. It tends to go with how the series differ. If it's just the original manga but with a filler episode here and there to pad things out, then I don't think it should be allowed. This is how it is with the HST anime and is a big reason why people think like this for everything.
But for big multi-media franchises where installments have multiple versions, multiple continuities, etc. and the differences are bigger, either in story (Such as going different paths and different endings), or in power (Like, the original story caps at 7-C but the adaptation has planet level and higher), it is completely fine.
Not only for the sake of completionism, as the differences in these cases are notable enough to reflect on the profiles, and because this is a Wiki where we analyze and chart the powers of charaters, and there's no reason to ignore alternate versions which are so different.
A lot of the time people like to use the slipery slope argument, to say that if a profile or Key for one alternate version of one character, people will want profiles and keys for all versions. This is obviously wrong. Not only does not anyone want this (Nobody wants a Xenoverse Yamcha profile), but in most of the cases these alternate canons and adaptations aren't notable or develop or different enough to warrant their own keys profiles.
And even then, we have Verses which account for literally every single Version of the story in all media. Big credit for the people behind the Pokémon and Digimon profiles for managing that. They use feats from all sources and divide it into Keys, and it is not a mess. It is manageable, it can be done without leading to disaster.
So really, I see no valid, legitimate reason to not do this, and strikes me as a purism that was developed through old HST / Dragon Ball discussions back in the day, where people would bring up feats that would then be dismissed outright as "Non-canon filler".
Oh, and touching the elephant in the room: Toeiland Dragon Ball. They are already accounted for with the GT Profiles, sorta. But if people really want them, I have no problem if the Dragon Ball GT Verse page is changed into a "Dragon Ball Z (Toei)" Verse page, and that Keys for the Toei versions of the Z Sagas are added to the GT Goku and Vegeta profiles. Would be quite fun, actually. Dwarf Star level Vegeta's finger and King Vegeta handswipe, Freeza's supernova being a literal supernova, Multi-Solar System level+ Buu, etc.
A lot of the arguments against making Keys for Anime versions of certain verses seem to be that Toei Dragon Ball doesn't have it. So you know what, knock yourself out.
But yeah. I don't see why it shouldn't be allowed.
And before someone comments "But our Alternative Canon Rules". Well, I am literally the person who made them in the first place per Antvasima's request, and not only do I find them increasingly restrictive and obtuse, but most people not only don't agree with them but also don't follow them.
Some people insist that you should 100% use only the manga in all circumstances and ignore other sources and adaptations.
Others, like myself, disagree. I believe that using things such as adaptations are completely fine, depending on the series. It tends to go with how the series differ. If it's just the original manga but with a filler episode here and there to pad things out, then I don't think it should be allowed. This is how it is with the HST anime and is a big reason why people think like this for everything.
But for big multi-media franchises where installments have multiple versions, multiple continuities, etc. and the differences are bigger, either in story (Such as going different paths and different endings), or in power (Like, the original story caps at 7-C but the adaptation has planet level and higher), it is completely fine.
Not only for the sake of completionism, as the differences in these cases are notable enough to reflect on the profiles, and because this is a Wiki where we analyze and chart the powers of charaters, and there's no reason to ignore alternate versions which are so different.
A lot of the time people like to use the slipery slope argument, to say that if a profile or Key for one alternate version of one character, people will want profiles and keys for all versions. This is obviously wrong. Not only does not anyone want this (Nobody wants a Xenoverse Yamcha profile), but in most of the cases these alternate canons and adaptations aren't notable or develop or different enough to warrant their own keys profiles.
And even then, we have Verses which account for literally every single Version of the story in all media. Big credit for the people behind the Pokémon and Digimon profiles for managing that. They use feats from all sources and divide it into Keys, and it is not a mess. It is manageable, it can be done without leading to disaster.
So really, I see no valid, legitimate reason to not do this, and strikes me as a purism that was developed through old HST / Dragon Ball discussions back in the day, where people would bring up feats that would then be dismissed outright as "Non-canon filler".
Oh, and touching the elephant in the room: Toeiland Dragon Ball. They are already accounted for with the GT Profiles, sorta. But if people really want them, I have no problem if the Dragon Ball GT Verse page is changed into a "Dragon Ball Z (Toei)" Verse page, and that Keys for the Toei versions of the Z Sagas are added to the GT Goku and Vegeta profiles. Would be quite fun, actually. Dwarf Star level Vegeta's finger and King Vegeta handswipe, Freeza's supernova being a literal supernova, Multi-Solar System level+ Buu, etc.
A lot of the arguments against making Keys for Anime versions of certain verses seem to be that Toei Dragon Ball doesn't have it. So you know what, knock yourself out.
But yeah. I don't see why it shouldn't be allowed.
And before someone comments "But our Alternative Canon Rules". Well, I am literally the person who made them in the first place per Antvasima's request, and not only do I find them increasingly restrictive and obtuse, but most people not only don't agree with them but also don't follow them.
