Board Thread:Shingeki no Kyojin Wiki/@comment-24930713-20150327022217/@comment-424719-20150425063220

Forgive my absence from this debate, just long hours at school.

As I said, we need to showcase the story from the point of view of the character. That is what I have seen on all the other Anime/Manga wikis as we are. Eren heard the story about Kenny and his grandfather we can reasonably assume. This makes it important to his development as a character and to allow readers to get into Eren's frame of mind. He knows about Kenny and all that happened there but doesn't know the exact details of the revolution by the government, only hearing it in passing by Kenny. It is true? How much did Erwin succeed? Is anyone dead? Eren doesn't know these things and it is absolutely vital thatt we communicate this idea to readers. Characters pages are summaries of a characters experience within the story, and everything currently on these pages fits this bill.

The current style has been used for a long time and I see no reason to change it. While I adapted it for use on Eren's page and others, it started with Gunthers and was laid down by Miskos. That is why I said it is 'tradition'. By having one paragraph per chapter I think it is neater, easier to follow, and cuts down on image clutter. We don't need 3-4 images each chapter on characters page. The current model restricts it to 1-2 and forces people to take only the most significant, not a mishmash of several. The only exception is when a chapter is outrageously long for one character and requires two paragraphs and two images. This can be seen when Erwin overthrew the government, since all ~40 pages were dialogue heavy and involved him.

I think tabs can work like how Luffy on the One Piece wiki has Pre-Skip and Post-Skip due to the how large the page would be otherwise. However, we are nowhere near that level and this is an idea for the distant, distant future.