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With regard to articles such as Spellfire (novel), I am of the opinion that while the long lists of characters and locations serve their purpose, we could be putting these on their own pages such as List of characters in Spellfire, rather than on the article itself. What does everyone think of this approach?
Fw190a8 20:35, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
Why create an article/list or put them on the article of the novel? Would it not be better to create a category, where the characters of a story are collected? Everyone can find them via these categories, that's what they are made for.
Historicus 20:50, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
I think the list on the novel page is just fine. Sure you could make a bunch of categories and cross links and templates and stuff, but all that is needed is a short list of characters/locations. The novel pages are small and short articles anyway, they have the cover of the novel and a bit of what is written on the back cover. And categories by novel, won't work so good, as lots of characters and locations are in lots of novels. So to take the path of least resistance, just leave the lists on the novel page.
(Bloodtide 23:34, 18 March 2009 (UTC))
List only the major characters, problem solved. Chances are people aren't going to go looking for more information on a character that gets 10 lines of text in a novel or similar.
Zeraktalk 20:35, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
The 'major' characters can get tricky. There is no good way to decide what a major character is, in a shared world like the Realms. Take the novel Shadowdale: Elminster is a 'minor' character, yet an important, famous one. So you would want to list him in the characters. The same could be said of Storm and lots of other characters in that novel. All we need do is keep the current 'three lines' Wiki rule. So if Bos the goblin is in one novel and says one line(die humans), he does not get a link or page. Other characters do. (````)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Bloodtide (talkcontribs) 03:18, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, well Elminster doesn't have merely 10 lines of text in a novel, he has tons of pages across a wealth of novels, same applies to other Realms characters (if they appear in other novel series, they're prolly pretty big).
Zeraktalk 18:30, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
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