Warriors Wiki talk:Characters/Archive 113

Character pages
So we took up a community survey and got some input, and I was able to solve almost all of the character page concerns with this. Basically, it's using the original concept for character summaries up top (it was only ever supposed to be 2-3 paragraphs max, even for main cats), condensation of living book list, history overview by arc (and I do mean overview, as in max at 4 paragraphs an arc for main cats + a quote, and yes it's possible) because we then have the detailed description in a tabber. Which as always will have all the details, but this is meant for main cats to avoid scrolling and crashing on mobile, and only some cats will have this.

The kin is also in a tab, because some of the kin is getting extremely long in lists, and we already have the direct stuff in the infobox. There's also the detailed description, which basically strips the main top one down to pelt + eye color + only very important things, and leaves all the other stuff in it's own section. Not for every cat, but cats like Spottedleaf do need it. Ended up with art sections next, and then after that ceremonies and leader info, then trivia and quotes after that. Quotes also has a 'See more' like we do for kin, not for every cat, but for cats like him we'd need it. And lastly, SEs are below the main arcs, per several requests for chronology.

Anyways yeah end of wall, but essentially this is a culmination of what the original concept should've been, survey responses, and minus personality per two sections above this. It would alter a lot of things (on anything above a supporting cat), so I'd be happy to write up a new PC character tutorial for it. Personally, I like how it's able to provide everyone with what they want as a compromise. The most important thing for making this work is to stick to the lengths (1-3 paragraphs max up top, 3-4 max per arc), and we can use most of the character summary content we've already made for the arc summaries, minus any specific events. Thoughts?

I really like this idea, it would definitely shorten the pages and make it easier to read.

01:40, January 25, 2019 (UTC)

I'm really glad the twitter page did the survey, and I'm very pleased with these results! This layout will main character pages super sleek and concise now. My only clarification would be for the living/dead section in the charart info box. I notice you're condensing them into arcs, but what if a character dies mid-arc, such as Cinderpelt and Yellowfang? Would they still be listed as living in "The New Prophecy"/"The Prophecies Begin" respectively? Other than that, it looks very good! 01:52, January 25, 2019 (UTC)

Ah it’s only condesnsed for if said cat is alive in all 6 or appears in all 6^^ If they don’t it reverts to by book, but it’s more of an optional condensation that’ll only be on some major cats, and most articles will stay as is

Love the way this looks. It looks so much less cluttered now and is a lot easier to read through. 18:38, January 25, 2019 (UTC)

This looks great, but would this apply to every single character? 00:59, January 26, 2019 (UTC)

Not every character, no. For the history part, basically all supporting or above, minor characters that appear in more than like... 10ish books perhaps? And then for the kin tab, whoever has more than three-four generations of family

I really like this idea! it really makes it look much more simple to read and possibly lessen the amount of time people would need to load the pages. i personally think the trivia, especially for longer articles like Firestar, should also be in a separate tab! Whiskii (talk) 14:51, February 11, 2019 (UTC)

Any other comments? Just tried it out in mainspace on Firestar

I think it looks great! Would you icon idea for affiliations still be implemented though? 01:46, February 20, 2019 (UTC)

Ah yeah it would just fixed that. My draft had been made before that was implenented whoops