User:Steve-o/Sandbox
Here's a little box that links to all aspects of a franchise. We could write one of these, custom, for each franchise and include them as templates in various places. At the very least, on the franchise, toyline, toon, and comic pages. Maybe also on individual issue or episode pages if there's a good place. This could work in concert with Derik's urhere template, which provides navigation within the fiction you're already looking at.
| Armada |
| Toyline |
| Cartoon |
| Comic |
I've started to doubt our early feeling that it would be impractical for us to have a standard "character" box to put on all the character pages. Here is some random thinking along those lines.
| Sunstreaker | |
| Hi. I'm better than you. | |
| Affiliations: | Autobot |
| Continuity family: | Generation 1 |
| Appears in: | Marvel G1, G1 cartoon, G1 Miscellania, Universe comic, BinalTech Asterisk, DW G1, IDW G1 |
| Alternate names: | Spinout (preliminary), Lince (Italian), Solo (French-Canadian) |
This could work, though that's a lot of code. And of course there's the question... what do we do when there's no picture? --M Sipher 01:34, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
I would love, love to see your character box added to the Wiki. The one change I would strongly suggest is changing "Appears in", which for G1 multiverse staples would quickly turn into an unsightly mess (Optimus Prime. Appears in: Marvel Generation 1 and Generation 2, Sunbow Generation 1, Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers manga, The Transformer manga, Binaltech, Kiss Players, Headmasters... well you get the idea) with Era(s) (ala Wookiepedia). So for example:
Grimlock Era(s):
Generation 1 (Marvel, animated, Dreamwave, IDW) Generation 2 (Marvel) Beast Wars
I just strongly feel that would be a lot less unsightly than a string of continuities. --Rotty 06:59, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
- I worry that putting the silly quote in the vita stats box like that flagrantly invites it to be mistaken for an official motto. -Derik 07:05, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
- There's been some more discussion of these things at User:M Sipher/Sandbox.--KilMichaelMcC 07:16, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
