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− | Since the Panther Queen herself is in Other and this guy is not actually a character in "Gargoyles" should he be moved to the Other category, along with various peoples' aliases? | + | Since the Panther Queen herself is in Other and this guy is not actually a character in "Gargoyles" should he be moved to the Other category, along with various peoples' aliases? - Vaevictis Asmadi |
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+ | :The Panther Queen is included in "Other" because she is an animal (or a were), rather than a human. Notice that Panther Queen ''is'' also included as a "Canon character", as are Oba and Louie. No real distinction has been made for characters that only appear in stories-within-the-story, although you may think that there should be. | ||
+ | :It's the old "species" problem for unusual characters, and yet more reason to create some sort of "Undetermined or unusual species" category. Actually, an "Animal" category might be a good idea also, e.g. for Gilly and Cagney. | ||
+ | :And since you've raised this point about aliases, it might be worth creating a new category specifically for them. The problem then arises: where is the dividing line between an alias and a real character? Owen and Puck are probably distinct enough to be separate characters. What about Dominique Destine? -- [[User:Supermorff|Supermorff]] 02:46, 7 March 2007 (CST) | ||
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+ | Ah, I thought the Panther Queen was in Other because she was in a story. I guess she should be in Humans though, no less than Dominique! | ||
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+ | I don't know whether aliases need their own category, but I would not include Owen or Anastasia or Dominique as aliases, since they involve complete transformation into actual humans. | ||
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+ | I don't know that animals such as Gilly or Cagney or Nessie are characters at all. Currently they are in Other instead of Characters. But that reminds me, I wanted to move gargoyle beasts to a separate Character category, since they are not the same species as gargoyles. | ||
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Latest revision as of 08:09, 7 March 2007
Since the Panther Queen herself is in Other and this guy is not actually a character in "Gargoyles" should he be moved to the Other category, along with various peoples' aliases? - Vaevictis Asmadi
- The Panther Queen is included in "Other" because she is an animal (or a were), rather than a human. Notice that Panther Queen is also included as a "Canon character", as are Oba and Louie. No real distinction has been made for characters that only appear in stories-within-the-story, although you may think that there should be.
- It's the old "species" problem for unusual characters, and yet more reason to create some sort of "Undetermined or unusual species" category. Actually, an "Animal" category might be a good idea also, e.g. for Gilly and Cagney.
- And since you've raised this point about aliases, it might be worth creating a new category specifically for them. The problem then arises: where is the dividing line between an alias and a real character? Owen and Puck are probably distinct enough to be separate characters. What about Dominique Destine? -- Supermorff 02:46, 7 March 2007 (CST)
Ah, I thought the Panther Queen was in Other because she was in a story. I guess she should be in Humans though, no less than Dominique!
I don't know whether aliases need their own category, but I would not include Owen or Anastasia or Dominique as aliases, since they involve complete transformation into actual humans.
I don't know that animals such as Gilly or Cagney or Nessie are characters at all. Currently they are in Other instead of Characters. But that reminds me, I wanted to move gargoyle beasts to a separate Character category, since they are not the same species as gargoyles. -Vaevictis Asmadi