Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-4010415-20180225013443/@comment-24032889-20180225020739

Each option has its own strength. Alphabetical structure would be very easy to comb through to find whom one is looking for. Their first appearance by volume is good for detailing a character's importance to the plot (as to when, and only to a certain extent as you mention about Team STRQ). Their current affiliation is helpful now, but of course it may become outdated, and it's better to have something we know we can stick with in the long run. Their initial affiliation would be a helpful barometer as well.

What this post illustrates well is that a character's affiliation is a factor for how important they are to the show, and the wiki has historically listed the more important affiliations higher up because that's likely who people are searching for when they go to the Characters Page.

Current afilliation- Personally, I do like the way we have it now the most, but it does suffer on "well this character is here right now, but that could easily change." (cough, Raven.) I believe this is by current affiliation? Its strength is that characters who are important are listed higher up.

Initial affilation- I don't think this would be too simple to navigate for me. I don't have an immediate grasp on if I could find any character on specifically the top or botton of the page. Admittedly, I don't favor this option.

Alphabetically- There are a few sides to this. First, it would be extremely easy to both structure and navigate. Instead of having a section for Team RWBY, Beacon Staff, etc., we would group together everyone whose name starts with a letter. Alternatively, I wouldn't want to scroll to the very end of the page to find Yang since she's so important. And then we'd have to think, in the group of people who start with 'P', would Pyrrha be listed before Penny since she's more important even with 'Py' being after 'Pe'? Or is this strictly alphabetical?

Their first appearance by volume- While the timeline is a good metric for where I could find someone on the page, it would be more of a jumble of characters than a simple scroll. It would take more brain power to go through than alphabetical.

So in a nutshell, I would prefer Alphabetical over First Appearance By Volume, but I would prefer listing by importance over alphabetical. Ultimately, while there are definitely some problems with listing people's current affiliations, I would like a structure that is largely similar to what we have but that still is a bit different. Maybe something like a "supporting protagonist" could be added, making Raven, Taiyang, Ironwood and Winter a bit higher on the page?

However, out of everything else proposed, if we don't go with the Current Affiliation one, I'd take Alphabetically because it'd be easiest to go through even if it means scrolling a bit.