I tried asking this on the discussion page, and I'm unsure if nobody replied because nobody read it, so I'm trying to ask here - copying from my original post in the discussion page of the One Piece character sheets:
I realize that there are no guidelines for what info can be added in a character description (as far as I know, there are only guidelines for the formatting), so everyone may disagree with me on this, but...
Do we really need all of these trivia headers? For almost every character, there are headers mentioning voice actor/actress, age, birthday, bounty, debut, and Devil Fruit. The voice actor header is on almost every character sheet for anime/cartoon characters, so I'm cool with that, but do we really need the others?
We have to remember that a large percentage of those who visit TV Tropes are readers only, so it's important to keep the pages reader-friendly. I think some of the reader-friendliness is lost when you have to scroll past a bunch of headers to get to the description and more importantly to the trope list. I think that if a One Piece fan is really interested in knowing, say, Robin's birthday or the name of Senor Pink's Devil Fruit, they'll probably go to the actual One Piece wiki where you can not only search directly for any character and go to their page, but also add trivia-specific templates/sidebars that this page doesn't have. Of course we should have a basic description of the character for the sake of new/forgetful readers, but otherwise the ones who go to TV Tropes' One Piece character sheets are probably those who want to see which tropes are associated with the characters. If they want other info on the characters, they are probably more likely to go to the One Piece wiki. I realize and agree that it can be funny to compile trivia, but is that something the casual readers/non-editors will care about?
I hope I expressed my thoughts clear enough - otherwise feel free to ask.
In short: Do we really need headers mentioning the characters' ages/birthdays/Devil Fruits/etc. on TV Tropes? Aren't those more appropriate for the "official" One Piece wiki?
I tried asking this on the discussion page, and I'm unsure if nobody replied because nobody read it, so I'm trying to ask here - copying from my original post in the discussion page of the One Piece character sheets:
I realize that there are no guidelines for what info can be added in a character description (as far as I know, there are only guidelines for the formatting), so everyone may disagree with me on this, but...
Do we really need all of these trivia headers? For almost every character, there are headers mentioning voice actor/actress, age, birthday, bounty, debut, and Devil Fruit. The voice actor header is on almost every character sheet for anime/cartoon characters, so I'm cool with that, but do we really need the others?
We have to remember that a large percentage of those who visit TV Tropes are readers only, so it's important to keep the pages reader-friendly. I think some of the reader-friendliness is lost when you have to scroll past a bunch of headers to get to the description and more importantly to the trope list. I think that if a One Piece fan is really interested in knowing, say, Robin's birthday or the name of Senor Pink's Devil Fruit, they'll probably go to the actual One Piece wiki where you can not only search directly for any character and go to their page, but also add trivia-specific templates/sidebars that this page doesn't have. Of course we should have a basic description of the character for the sake of new/forgetful readers, but otherwise the ones who go to TV Tropes' One Piece character sheets are probably those who want to see which tropes are associated with the characters. If they want other info on the characters, they are probably more likely to go to the One Piece wiki. I realize and agree that it can be funny to compile trivia, but is that something the casual readers/non-editors will care about?
I hope I expressed my thoughts clear enough - otherwise feel free to ask.
In short: Do we really need headers mentioning the characters' ages/birthdays/Devil Fruits/etc. on TV Tropes? Aren't those more appropriate for the "official" One Piece wiki?
Edited by Hvedekorn on Jun 3rd 2019 at 4:14:46 PM