emilylime Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Hi! I'm just wondering how detailed you should be in character pages. Like for example, is it going too far to add things like how Leyten insisted on ornamenting the carapace armor with specific patterns? I tried looking at different character pages, on this forum, on the Coppermind editing help page...but I'm still not sure. So, basically, what kind of information belongs on a character page? All the details possible, or...? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe ST Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 I don't have a good answer for you I'm afraid. Really as much as possible is preferred, but not just retelling the story, so I'd class your point that you asked about as sensible to add. We want our character pages to be as close to completely describing the character. The only point it becomes too much is for the mains where you have insanely large amounts of info which may be better to summarise and then describe detail elsewhere in event articles or something. Our policy is fuzzy at this point as we aren't very good at writing about characters in general. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Generally, you'd rather have more detail and prune it down than have too little content. But honestly, I think there's very few things that aren't relevant. Especially for personality traits. I would say that with the History section, that can be a bit tricky on what is too much, but in general, go for more. This is why character articles are hard to write, because there really is so much. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emilylime Posted June 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Oh alright!! Thank you!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe ST Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Thank you for adding the detail you've done a great job so far and I hope we can keep you interested in helping out. If you ever have any questions then ask away we are happy to help our helpers feel better about editing and such 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emilylime Posted June 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Thanks! I'm having lots of fun!! Are there any changes I should make to how I'm editing? I feel kind of clueless having just jumped into everything ^-^' 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Well, one thing I'd recommend for character articles is this: http://coppermind.net/wiki/Help:Article_structure/Characters It is the structure for character articles. So one thing to note is that Appearance and Personality are one section, so add that to the Leyten article if you want It is also good for seeing if you forgot some sections, and ideas for expansion. The tense is fine; history should be in past generally, everything else in present. I haven't looked too in depth on your edit but I liked it a lot! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emilylime Posted June 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Okey, thank you a bunch!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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