Talk:Janni

Good Article status

 * Correct: yes
 * Referenced: yes
 * Formatted: yes
 * Clean: yes
 * Nearly complete: no (does not provide any information about jann of Faerûn; could use some 3e info in the body of the text)
 * Policy-adherent/Demonstrative: yes

I can say with surety that there is no information from 4e or 5e. Dunno about 1e, though. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 22:19, June 20, 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks DTZ! ~ Lhynard (talk) 22:41, June 20, 2016 (UTC)

I'll see what I can find for 4E/5E stats, but what kind of information are you talking about for the jann of Faerûn? I have other pages detailing specific tribes of janni like the House of Sihr, and individuals such as Bouladin al-Mutajalli. Should some/all of these links be added to a "See Also" section?Artemaz (talk) 00:48, June 21, 2016 (UTC)


 * Edit. Ha ha just realized you said Faerûn and not Zakhara! I work on so many Zakharan pages that sometimes I begin speaking Midani. I'm not sure where to find the info about jann in that "other" continent. ;) Artemaz (talk) 00:52, June 21, 2016 (UTC)


 * Right. My concern is that, as this is an FR wiki and not an Al-Qadim wiki, a good article should not seem Zakhara-focused unless the creatures are primarily Zakharan. But Jann are common in Calimshan and the Anauroch and (I assume) the Raurin, so it seems an oversight to not have at least something about the Jann in those places.


 * I'll add what I can from my 2e and 3e sources on Calimshan and the Anauroch soon enough, but I spent a lot of time on the Marid page, so I need a bit of a break first. :)


 * ~ Lhynard (talk) 03:15, June 21, 2016 (UTC)

Plural
First and second editions use the term "jannee" as the plural of jann. I've noticed that 1st and some 2nd edition sources get this backwards (which is how I learned it, unfortunately). There is an entry for Jann(i) in the Monster Manual II 1st edition. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 03:13, June 21, 2016 (UTC)


 * Yes, I noticed this too&mdash;at least for 1e. Every 2e source I have calls "janni" the singular and "jann" the plural.


 * There are a lot of issues of inconsistency or complete reversal of plurals in the sourcebooks. And it goes both ways; newer is not always better. (E.g., 3e calls the plural of marrashi "marrashi" and the singular "marrash.)


 * In this case, I considered leaving a note about the confusion, but I wanted to ponder the problem as a whole for a bit longer to come up with a good way to justify my opinion/decision.


 * ~ Lhynard (talk) 03:20, June 21, 2016 (UTC)