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Granola said: We should make this a clearly defined rule that the wiki should be visual information, japanese name. I know I haven't done this myself, but it seemed like we reached a pretty good consensus with this thread and it should be made official.
It is a rule, so I guess I'll add something on the main wiki page for lack of any better place. I just don't know how often people see that page.
One spoiler that I would like to see in wiki pages (although I expect to hear a lot of disagreement about this) is "this character is the same as this other character". My reasoning is that if two characters are actually the same, they are likely to share certain features that might make pictures of the second character relevant to someone looking at the first.
NWF_Renim said: That could be done somewhat without spoiling anything by simply including a link to the other "character" under the "See Also:" section.
It would still be fairly obvious what the spoiler is. This sort of connection just isn't necessary in our wiki entries. There are so many other sources of information outside of danbooru for those who are curious that there's no point risking spoilers by replicating it here.
The only reason I even brought this up is for series that I'm not watching and am not likely to be. I'm obviously not going to go around checking every character whose design I like on wikipedia to see if there another character that they're equivalent to.
I only bring this up because I was interested in knowing the information when it came up once in a forum thread. The characters had similar designs and so both contained images that I was interested in looking at. Obviously I can't name the exact example, because that would be spoilers.
Again, I did not in the least expect anyone to agree with me. I don't know how it could be safely implemented, since links break spoilers. I merely brought it up because this kind of information can be visually relevant, in a way, and because it's information that I've used in the past.
Two characters who are tagged separately will be visually distinct, we try to avoid ruining things for people when this is the case. They may have some similarities but if you want to figure out what why they are so similar there's a million other places you can check while allowing those who wish to avoid spoilers to avoid them.
The point is that if I'm looking at pictures of the one, and don't know the show, I won't even know about the existence of the other one. There have been cases where two characters are visually close enough to be relevant, but separated into two tags because of spoiler reasons.
I can accept that we just simply can't do it because there's too much potential for spoilers. All I'm saying is that there are some cases where we lose useful visual information by not linking such characters together somehow.
jxh2154 said:
It would still be fairly obvious what the spoiler is. This sort of connection just isn't necessary in our wiki entries. There are so many other sources of information outside of danbooru for those who are curious that there's no point risking spoilers by replicating it here.
Actually I was thinking more in line with a broader application of linking similar characters, and not simply just character A in disguise as character B. For example Frederica Bernkastel being linked with Furude Rika, or (probably the very unknown) Nyamo Namo who is pretty much a darker skinned Maehara Shinobu. There is also Eve and Konjiki no Yami. As far as I'm aware what links them isn't anything spoiler related.
What links those examples though is generally something that makes them really close, such as artist linking the series, characters being related, etc. I'm not sure if there should or shouldn't be a line on what can be connected though, since you could link characters like Watarase Jun (post #390306) with Hiiragi Kagami (when her hair is down post #118659), or some depictions of Alicia Melchiott (post #502837) with Onimaru Miki (post #82478).
If such linking became more commonplace, then embedding ones that would be deemed a spoiler material wouldn't at least seem all that evident due to the commonality of linking similar characters. Don't take this as an argument it should be done, though certainly some characters should probably linked (I think the first 3 examples I gave should, well Frederica and Rika already are).
Let me just say that I'm only saying that characters that look similar and are the same should be linked somehow. For example, there's no reason why Zelda and Sheik should be linked, since they're designed almost completely differently.
Because of this, from my standpoint I have no problem with NWF Renim's suggestion, although I can understand how there could be a danger of being spoiled even with that little information.
