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Here is an interesting idea for a topic: How come on different tokusatsu wikis monsters of the week are treated differently?

On one hand you have the Ultraman wiki which gives a lot of detail for their monsters of the week. Here's a random article of a robotic soldier from an episode of Ultraseven:
http://ultra.wikia.com/wiki/Robot_Commissioner

And a monster that appeared in the Ultraman Neos pilot, which is so obscure most Ultraman fans don't even know exists:
http://ultra.wikia.com/wiki/Drengeran

And a random Ultraman Dyna monster:
http://ultra.wikia.com/wiki/Bundar

And the final boss of Ultraman Gaia:
http://ultra.wikia.com/wiki/Zogu

And an Ultraman Nice monster that only appeared in a series of commercials:
http://ultra.wikia.com/wiki/Tabu_Zagon

Now in all of these what do you see? You see lengthy histories, subtitle names (if one exists), height and weight information, multiple pictures, trivia, and power capabilities as to what the individuals in question are capable of. All unequivocally regardless of how little or much they are part of their franchise. Now we turn to the Kamen Rider wiki.

Here's a random fangire from Kiva: http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Polar_Bear_Fangire
A random Destron inhumanoid from V3: http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Propeller_Kabuto
A random Neo Shocker inhumanoid from Skyrider: http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Hebinger
A major character orphnoch from Faiz: http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Aki_Sawada
And a Delza Army Corps monster from Stronger: http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Commanding_Officer_Brank

For these articles you get brief histories and sometimes trivia with height and weight being a rarity. In addition, if the monsters aren't also Kamen Riders they don't get details on power capabilities (Great Leader doesn't get this yet Bat Fangire does?). "But Captain Shark you can't just make that comparison with two wikis!" You're right, I'm also bringing in the Super Sentai/Power Rangers wiki into this! Lets see their examples!

http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Combined_Combatant
http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Gang
http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Heart_Monster
http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Sabimushilar_Monster
http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Inazuma_Ginga
http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Baroque_Megas
http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Pain

Now granted, sometimes I've seen monsters have abilities listed as "arsenal", but those are more exceptions than rules. Sometimes you don't get a picture! Also in Goggle-V's case there aren't even articles for their monsters, just links to the main wikipedia.

My point is that some toku monsters get proper respect while others don't. You'd think with the amount of rider and sentai series subbed that there would be similar care like with Ultraman despite how most of the Ultra franchise isn't translated. With the size of the community here I don't think it'd be hard to give many of these kaijin the proper treatment that Ultra kaiju regularly get.
 
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Honestly, it might have to do with the people who are running the respective wikis and the people who frequently edit them.
 
Shyni
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Rider monsters aren't nearly as iconic or memorable as Ultra monsters. Especially when it comes to ones with names like "Polar Bear Fangire", I wouldn't be surprised if the show's creators don't care enough to write down information about it. Just the idea of how so many monsters in a particular show were just "humanoid animal costume in the same style as almost every other humanoid animal costume in the show" bores me.
 
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Honestly, it might have to do with the people who are running the respective wikis and the people who frequently edit them.

That, and Ultraman kaijuu/seijin are given a lot of respect in print which leads to a lot of information on them becoming available. my dad used to buy a series of Ultraman Tiga books in Chinese which came with lots of cross-sections of mecha and monsters, and background information on the episodes. I have no idea where they are right now, sadly.

I wouldn't exactly 'trust' the Wikias though. they mostly lack cohesive language and some articles are even filled with rubbish that isn't relevant or true.
 
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