Difference between revisions of "Talk:Appearences Section"

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I designed this page as a prototype for an idea I had on how character pages should be done. Instead of all the titles showing up throughout the text, I placed them in their own section below. I believe this makes for a neater and more organized page. I'm open to suggestions, comments and criticism of course, but I like it and if we get a general consensus on this, I can start converting everyone. So what do you think? The [[Maggie the Cat|original page]] is unchanged for comparison to the [[Maggie the cat (prototype)]] page. Thanks. --[[User:Matt|Matt]] 08:42, 27 December 2007 (CST)
 
I designed this page as a prototype for an idea I had on how character pages should be done. Instead of all the titles showing up throughout the text, I placed them in their own section below. I believe this makes for a neater and more organized page. I'm open to suggestions, comments and criticism of course, but I like it and if we get a general consensus on this, I can start converting everyone. So what do you think? The [[Maggie the Cat|original page]] is unchanged for comparison to the [[Maggie the cat (prototype)]] page. Thanks. --[[User:Matt|Matt]] 08:42, 27 December 2007 (CST)
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:Interesting idea. The history section in this article is neater, but now we cannot tell where the information in a particular section came from. If I wanted to know when Talon revealed his feelings for Maggie, this page doesn't actually have that information. And if we are not putting citations in the body text, where do we link to specific responses at Ask Greg (if and when it is appropriate to do so)?
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:I do like the Appearances section. It would be nice and useful to have all appearances listed in one place (although episode titles should not be italicized). But in my opinion, by removing the episode citations from the body text, we've lost more than we've gained.
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:We could... just thinking now... we could use the new section as a sort of References section as they have at Wikipedia. That is, we include small links <sup>[[#down here|1]]</sup> throughout the body text, which users can click on to be directed down the page to the references section, and the number indicates the appropriate episode.
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:This is a simplification of the system used at Wikipedia, because MediaWiki reference tags don't seem to work on GargWiki (I've tried before). If we wanted, for example, to be able to link back up the page to the citations, then we'd need to make it more complicated, perhaps by using templates.
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:In fact, this is the system described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnote1 here] at Wikipedia, which was the first footnote system they used and which has been obsolete for a very long time. More recent, but equally obsolete methods can be found [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnote2 here] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnote3 here].
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:This might be more trouble than it's worth. -- [[User:Supermorff|Supermorff]] 11:16, 27 December 2007 (CST)
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I designed this page as a prototype for an idea I had on how character pages should be done. Instead of all the titles showing up throughout the text, I placed them in their own section below. I believe this makes for a neater and more organized page. I'm open to suggestions, comments and criticism of course, but I like it and if we get a general consensus on this, I can start converting everyone. So what do you think? The original page is unchanged for comparison to the Maggie the cat (prototype) page. Thanks. --Matt 08:42, 27 December 2007 (CST)

Interesting idea. The history section in this article is neater, but now we cannot tell where the information in a particular section came from. If I wanted to know when Talon revealed his feelings for Maggie, this page doesn't actually have that information. And if we are not putting citations in the body text, where do we link to specific responses at Ask Greg (if and when it is appropriate to do so)?
I do like the Appearances section. It would be nice and useful to have all appearances listed in one place (although episode titles should not be italicized). But in my opinion, by removing the episode citations from the body text, we've lost more than we've gained.
We could... just thinking now... we could use the new section as a sort of References section as they have at Wikipedia. That is, we include small links 1 throughout the body text, which users can click on to be directed down the page to the references section, and the number indicates the appropriate episode.
This is a simplification of the system used at Wikipedia, because MediaWiki reference tags don't seem to work on GargWiki (I've tried before). If we wanted, for example, to be able to link back up the page to the citations, then we'd need to make it more complicated, perhaps by using templates.
In fact, this is the system described here at Wikipedia, which was the first footnote system they used and which has been obsolete for a very long time. More recent, but equally obsolete methods can be found here and here.
This might be more trouble than it's worth. -- Supermorff 11:16, 27 December 2007 (CST)













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