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Saying my piece (peace) and leaving it be, I feel (and have personally experienced) that sorting characters in ways that demand a significantly deeper knowledge of the work is inherently unfriendly to new users. I've dug around for individual characters who'd been slotted into unintuitive categories before, and just having CTRL+F didn't help me then. And I've come in unaware of which characters were in which expansions and been stumped before in the Digital version.
Also, I remember a time in the past where all the characters were sorted by expansion, and if I remember correctly were un-sorted for reasons of wiki policy.
I do think there are some villains, like Baron Blade, who has had many variants over the years, who could get their own character pages, but I'm honestly leery even of sorting the Team Villains off on their own.
Edited by SpectralTimeThrowing in my two cents that I always find it extremely confusing whenever a work I'm not familiar with splits according to groups only understandable if you're already familiar with the work, and I almost always wish they just alphabetized it. So I'd prefer to split by alphabetical order here for the sake of people not already familiar with Sentinels.
(Heck with some works like the Marvel Cinematic Universe I am familiar with the work and I still find it confusing because people keep switching teams in-universe every time I turn around and need to be shuffled between the pages accordingly. At least that's more of a minor concern here.)
My secondary vote would be splitting off OblivAeon, Scions, Team Villains, and Nemeses, since those at least are halfway discernable splits on their own since it amounts to more or less "main character versus minor character" in many ways.
Edited by Jeysie Apparently I am adorable, but my GF is my #1 Groupie. (Avatar by Dreki-K)No opinion on the sorting, but I think that folks should carry out the discussion on the discussion page and only ask for additional opinions on Ask The Tropers.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanAsking for opinions is fine, but bringing the discussion here is a problem as such discussions tend to be tediously long, offtopic for a general venue and often also distracting.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI am honestly genuinely confused how you state Unsung is allowed to ask for opinions, yet anyone giving opinions is apparently disallowed.
Apparently I am adorable, but my GF is my #1 Groupie. (Avatar by Dreki-K)

So there's a bit of dispute over how this page split should be done, you can see the debate between Spectral Time and myself on the Discussion page. It's currently listed alphabetically, and I just feel like there should be subcategorization, because there's 30+ folders, and depending on how the franchise develops beyond the original card game, there could potentially be more to come.
I think there are a few somewhat natural break points — the original game was divided into expansions, and in the mechanics of the card game some of the villains are fought on their own with their own minions while others are fought as part of a team of other villains. Some villains have decks for both, but the latter only appear in the second-to-last two expansions. Similarly, OblivAeon and his Scions are fought as a kind of massive Final Boss for the game as a whole, and have some very different rules as well. And then there are Nemeses, which are one-off cards which appear in other team villains' decks but don't have decks of their own so far (and aren't likely to get them, as the card game is officially complete at this time).
Spectral Time doesn't like the above ideas, as he thinks they require readers to possess additional information. I feel like it's just the opposite, though — it's information we're giving them, not information they need to have in advance. There were two other editors who had voted to split by expansion, but I felt like maybe it would be better to put this to ATT and get some more opinions/suggestions and then put it to a vote of sorts.
So the suggestions so far:
Spectral is not necessarily in favour of alphabetical order but hasn't liked any of the other ideas so far. Any other suggestions or ideas based on how other Characters pages do it are welcome. Thanks for your help. Please feel free to ask for clarification.
Edited by Unsung