Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-4010415-20180225013443/@comment-4010415-20180225023834

Sentry 616 wrote: If we're seriously concerned about giving spoilers, The problem we've been having doesn't have to do with spoilers, to be honest. The disagreements have been revolving around where to place the characters in accordance with where they belong. For example "Why is Qrow listed with STRQ? He should be with Ozpin's group!" vs "No, I think he fits better with STRQ than Ozpin's group!"

RaijinRising wrote:

1. Their current affiliation is helpful now, but of course it may become outdated, and it's better to have something we know we can stick with in the long run.

2. 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.

3. Alternatively, I wouldn't want to scroll to the very end of the page to find Yang since she's so important.

4. 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?

5. 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. 1. Which is why it would be updated every single time a character's affiliation changes. It would be constantly kept up to date with the latest episode. Though, one problem this can have is that it make us reduce a section down to one or two characters.

2. This is true.

3. That could be remedied by having the list be in multiple columns, rather than stretching all the way down the page in a single column. If we can, we could even put a large bold letter at the start of each letter section, so you simply look for the large bold Y when you wanna find Yang, or alternatively, look for her picture if we wanna keep the character mugs.

To be honest, the reason I suggested splitting the alphabetical method into a section for important characters and a section for minor ones is because of my own experiences scrolling through character lists on other wikias. I scroll through because I can't remember the name of a character I'm thinking of and wanting more info about, and if all of the characters, regardless of importance, are kept together on the same list, it makes that task even more tedious.

I bring this up because I have found the character lists that include mugshots to be much, much more helpful, as I can simply look for the face I'm thinking about, rather than skim a list in search of a name that sounds familiar.

4. If listed alphabetically, Pyrrha would indeed be below Penny. Part of the reason for using an alphabetical structure is because it's so easy to find the name you want. The other reason is because it's so objective that there shouldn't be any arguing about where a character's name should be placed on the page. Making it "Alphabetical, except the more important characters are higher up" easily leads into arguments over who is more important and who has a right to defy alphabetical order.

5. This is true, that it would be quite a jumble, on top of questions over how loosely we should define a character's introduction or appearance.