Rearranging Neptunia character pages

Currently, the character pages for the Neptunia series are split by game and listing every recurring character on each game's character list, as brought up in this ATT and then brought up by me in the Character Page Cleanup thread, despite a lot of characters appearing across different games. The reason given is how several of the games take place across different continuities and worlds, giving us different versions and interpretations of some characters (like how Victory introduces Alternate Self versions of the main characters and the first game being its own continuity), which makes some sense, but the way it works now just results in the same tropes for the same characters being listed over and over on almost every page (also a bunch of ZCEs, but that's another discussion and will most likely be fixed if this is done anyway). It seems better and more organized to split the pages by character groups, with each character listed once, with a "main" trope list for the character in general, and with any game-specific tropes in their own folders underneath this list.

My suggestion for how to set up the pages:

• Main CPUs: Neptune, Noire, Blanc, Vert (including their HDD and Next Forms). This would most likely also include Older/Adult Neptune even if this version isn't a CPU, since she's another version of Neptune
• Candidates: Nepgear, Uni, Rom, Ram, Maho/Grey Sister
• Other CPUs: Plutia, Peashy, Uzume - unless we just put these alongside the main CPUs too
• Other Major Characters: IF, Compa, Histoire, possibly Umio?
• Gold Third: C-sha, B-sha, K-sha, S-sha/E-sha
• Makers: Gust, Nisa, 5pb., Broccoli, Cave, CyberConnect2, Falcom (both versions), MAGES., MarvelousAQL, RED, Tekken, Higurashi, Shanghai Alice, plus DLC characters Nitroplus, Million Arthur and God Eater. Also Tamsoft, despite her only appearing in spinoffs so far
• (Main?) Antagonists: Arfoire, Warechu, CFW Brave/Judge/Trick/Magic, Rei Ryghts, Abnes, Anonydeath, Copypaste, Mr. Badd, Affimojas, Steamax, Kurome)
• Other Characters: Anyone else. Minor characters from the main series, Oracles, ect.

Spinoff-only characters would go under character pages for their respective games (so where they are now), with an exception for games where there's only a few new characters, like how Producing Perfection only has the Producer - those could go into Other Characters - and characters like Tamsoft who have appeared across multiple games, but only in spinoffs, who would be listed in the appropiate character group (so in this case, Makers)

I also made a sandbox for this, though there's not much there yet - probably just gonna copy over trope lists to start with, arrange them by game and work from there - most likely merging and moving most of them to the general tropes section

Any comments or suggestions for this? (I should probably also note right away that I haven't played Sisters vs. Sisters and most likely won't until it's out in English, so trying to avoid major story spoilers for that)

Edited by Zanreo on Nov 17th 2022 at 3:57:36 PM

I think that each folder’s content should be only be split by dimensions (general traits, Super, Hyper, Ultra) rather than games. Hyperdimension Neptune is the same character from mk2 all the way to Sisters vs Sisters. I would also include Older Neptune in Neptune’s folder.

Edited by KOman on Nov 20th 2022 at 4:51:37 AM

...so I kinda put this on the backburner for a bit, but noticed most of the character pages being copied over (thanks!) Will go over and try to fix up ZCEs and grammar here and there

Also, noticed the "Spinoff Characters" page that's presumably meant for all the spinoff-exclusive characters - should we have all of them on one page or split by specific games? I think the latter would be better, at least for spinoffs with a significant amount of new characters. And how about spinoff-specific tropes for recurring characters (like Vs Sega Hard Girls!IF and Neptune), guess those could just be put in "general tropes" on the character's page?

Edited by Zanreo on Dec 12th 2022 at 9:14:35 PM

Alright, so with me clearing Sisters vs. Sisters, I can finally fully look through this without worrying about spoilers and also work with those parts. Most of the pages look alright, though the Spinoff Characters still needs some work

...so we should probably get moving more with this. I replaced some pictures with higher-quality versions at least

There was a suggestion to move Makers and antagonists from spinoffs (currently at Spinoff Characters) to the Makers and Other Antagonists pages respectively, which I'd agree with, but any other opinions on this?

Just saw this commented-out note added to the CPU pages (Main, Candidates and Others):

I agree with adding a section for these tropes, at least for the spinoff games (probably everything in one "tropes from spinoff games" section for each character. I guess it would also make sense to add tropes from the anime and Megami Tsuushin (the manga), though I'm not familiar with the latter.

Edited by Zanreo on May 15th 2023 at 10:33:22 AM

welp, quintuplepost here, but the new pages are finally up! Next up would probably be cutlisting the old pages and sandboxes and then we're done here

edit:.. realized it would probably be better to just redirect the old pages to the new ones (main games to the main index, spinoffs to the spinoff characters page)

Edited by Zanreo on Jul 13th 2023 at 3:57:41 PM

Locking as requested because everything has been done