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SpectralTime Since: Apr, 2009
2020-09-22 09:40:54

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 SpectralTime
Jeysie Since: Jun, 2010
2020-09-22 10:21:40

Throwing 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.

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SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2020-09-23 01:06:12

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.

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SpectralTime Since: Apr, 2009
2020-09-23 14:54:05

We brought the discussion here because it had turned into a circular argument between the two of us, and we wanted fresh eyes and fresh opinions.

SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2020-09-24 00:00:39

Asking 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 Feynman
Jeysie Since: Jun, 2010
2020-09-24 07:31:09

I am honestly genuinely confused how you state Unsung is allowed to ask for opinions, yet anyone giving opinions is apparently disallowed.

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Unsung Since: Jun, 2016
2020-09-24 08:11:36

I think Septimus is just asking for anyone who has in-depth suggestions/questions to take them to the Discussion page, and just leave this thread for straight-up votes or agree/disagree opinions? Not sure about that last.

Edited by Unsung
SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2020-09-24 08:45:38

What I am asking for is that people give their opinion - and any contestations - on the discussion page.

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Unsung Since: Jun, 2016
2020-09-25 09:32:09

Bump. Just need some outside eyes on this.

Tabs MOD Since: Jan, 2001
2020-09-25 12:20:22

If there's a forum thread here for the game, you might post there for more opinions. I almost always lean toward alphabetical sorting. Otherwise, no opinion.

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