Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-4010415-20180225013443/@comment-4141313-20180225184725

NeoVelociraptorDelta wrote: I also think arranging it alphabetically would be best. Personally, I find it odd that Raven's currently listed under Patch or that Sun isn't in SSSN. As for listing, we could start with RWBY/JNPR then go from 1st appearance per character in a faction? Like, it'd go RWBY > JNPR > Cinder's Faction(?) > Oz's group, and so on? Maybe we could just add characters twice if they're in multiple factions?

EDIT: Shouldn't Glynda be listed under Oz's faction? 1. Check the comment sections on the page for why Raven was put in Patch.

2. Sun is a central character, SSSN is not. If he was put with his team, then it would affect the importance of either himself or his teammates (Either diminishing his own importance or elevating their importance despite the contrary.

3. It's already been argued to hell and back about not listing characters twice and about not listing by faction.

4. Oz's Faction has a central role in the Story, but Glynda and Ironwood are not listed in it because they do not have a Central Role in the Story, Glynda being back in Vale and assumedly written out of the show due to Zulch's issues with RT until they get her a new VA, and Ironwood being holed up in Atlas.

The design I initially came up with that the page uses now was intended to highlight the characters by level of importance and categorize them.

RWBY was the leads and JNR were the Deuteragonists, so they had the top. Because Ruby led them both and is a member of both (There is no indication RNJR was disbanded), I gave them a shared box.

Ozpin, Oscar, and Qrow had the role of Tritagonists, as did Sun and eventually Ilia, so they were given their own sections. As Sun held importance but SSN didn't, and he was a member of the improptu militia formed to save Haven, that section was made into the Menagerie Militia and Sun was added. Ghira and Kali were added there due to their central roles in Blake's story for the past two volumes.

The remaining characters were either Antagonists, who received their own section, or relatively minor, so they were sorted by Kingdom. Beacon's staff and Teams were keep together, as were Shade's and Haven's. Due to Ciel being apart of Penny's team and implied to be assigned by Ironwood, and both his and Winter's role in the military, all three were put in the Atlesian Military section.

Lastly, the deceased section I created due to each character no longer having relevance in the narrative unless in relation to a living characters motivation. This was meant to keep the characters not in focus out of the way of their other characters. As for the idea of spoilers, the wiki itself is filled to the brims with Spoilers already, so people being upset with spoilers are ignoring the very nature of the wiki, which is meant to be an up to date database. So if they get spoiled, its their own fault for visiting the wiki in the first place. We are under no obligation to make it so that first time viewers get preferential treatment spoiler wise when no other wiki does so.

The crosses are an unintended side effect. They exist in the Character Mugs, not the page, so I had to leave them for when the mugs appear on other pages. If I could have done so though, I would have removed them upon putting them in the Deceased Section. Had the section been not made, several characters would have no location to be put, such as Summer (She isn't alive on Patch, nor do we know if there even is a body in her grave), Vernal (She isn't an antagonist, and giving her a section to herself for the Branwen Tribe makes little sense, and it would only be her considering that Raven probably doesn't have a place in the tribe anymore), Penny (She isn't official military, and doesn't have a real team), and Leonardo (He effectively gave up his position as headmaster when the battle began)

As for why the STRQ section was removed, to repeat my justfication on the main page:

A) STRQ has been disbanded for years, so to list them in the same category would give the illusion they are together, and half of them have other categories they fit in.

B) STRQ itself has no relevance in the story. Summer is hardly spoken of in the show, Tai has been relagated to Minor Apperances, and Qrow is more involved with Ozpin's group than his former team. To be frank, I think the team has only been mentioned all of four times in series. One when Qrow show Ruby and Yang his picture, one when Tai talked about their team enrolling, one while Tai was training Yang, and one while Tai was looking at a picture.