Template talk:Featuredcharacters
What is the difference between the "others" and "misc" columns? - Starfield 12:01, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
- I think it's mostly to do with the use of alternate headers - in Armada, for instance, you have the Mini-Cons to deal with, and you rename the "Others" or "Misc" column to Mini-Cons with |h4= or |h5= accordingly. If there were only four columns, there would be no place for Mini-Cons if you had Autobots, Decepts, humans and [say] Unicron (an "Other") to deal with - SanityOrMadness 12:48, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
Is there any established criteria for what the dividing line is between "Featured Characters" and "Guests"? Is the prior classification for those with speaking parts and the latter for those who just stand in the background?Shellspark 13:29, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
- Uh... I'm pretty sure there isn't one. We don't do "Guests" anymore. Everyone gets listed, speaking part or no, in order of appearance. --M Sipher 13:33, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
- I dunno if we ever settled this. Some people still list "cameos" or whatnot when doing Featured Characters. You could argue that there's something to that, if it's a story with like a billion dudes in it, but I figure if you need to know who's really important, you can look and see who shows up in the Synopsis. -- Repowers 13:40, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
- Ok, I'll then strip the "Guests" section from these Energon episode pages and shuffle everyone into "Featured Characters". Which means I get to watch all the episodes. Again! --Shellspark 13:52, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
Makeover
The current styling on the featured characters box doesn't render the same on every browser (in IE it's got a heavy red border around it, and the cell borders vary in look as well), so I'd like to put forward a suggestion to make it look a little better. Here's my attempt:
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans | Others | Misc |
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Opinions? Complaints? Rotten fruit? :) --abates 04:46, 30 June 2009 (EDT)
- No one has an opinion? :( --abates 17:29, 22 July 2009 (EDT)
- Other than making the bottom border of the headings thicker as well, I like it. I always thought the white space borders looked silly. --Jeysie 18:24, 22 July 2009 (EDT)
- I think the black might be a bit visually heavy.
- Poke me friday if I forget to port the changes over to the temp file tomorrow. (No one ever pays attention to discussions like this until it gets rolled out.) -Derik 07:13, 13 August 2009 (EDT)
- Yeah, I think you're right on the black. More of a mid gray? --abates 16:49, 13 August 2009 (EDT)
- Looks much better, but IMO the gray should still be a little bit lighter.. -Mazenoise 16:53, 13 August 2009 (EDT)
- I've put a variety of grays on my sandbox for people to check out. --abates 17:29, 13 August 2009 (EDT)
- I like either the top one, or the middle one if the interior borders were the same grey as the outer borders. Otherwise IMHO the middle one as-is and the bottom one cause the borders to blend in too much with some of the background colors. --Jeysie 17:53, 13 August 2009 (EDT)
- All of the borders are the same gray - the vertical internal borders are thinner though. I'll adjust them so the borders are all the same width. --abates 18:16, 13 August 2009 (EDT)
- I'd go with the middle one: the bottom is too light to stand out from the "Misc" box. -Mazenoise 18:20, 13 August 2009 (EDT)
- All of the borders are the same gray - the vertical internal borders are thinner though. I'll adjust them so the borders are all the same width. --abates 18:16, 13 August 2009 (EDT)
- I like either the top one, or the middle one if the interior borders were the same grey as the outer borders. Otherwise IMHO the middle one as-is and the bottom one cause the borders to blend in too much with some of the background colors. --Jeysie 17:53, 13 August 2009 (EDT)
- I've put a variety of grays on my sandbox for people to check out. --abates 17:29, 13 August 2009 (EDT)
- Looks much better, but IMO the gray should still be a little bit lighter.. -Mazenoise 16:53, 13 August 2009 (EDT)
- Yeah, I think you're right on the black. More of a mid gray? --abates 16:49, 13 August 2009 (EDT)
- Other than making the bottom border of the headings thicker as well, I like it. I always thought the white space borders looked silly. --Jeysie 18:24, 22 July 2009 (EDT)
Modification needed so "Numbers indicate order of appearance" can be removed when required
As discussed here, we should modify this template so that when we don't need that notice (for instance, with character tables for franchise pages), we can flag it somehow and the "Numbers indicate order of appearance" message will disappear. --FFN 05:23, 17 July 2009 (EDT)
