Forum:Status in infobox

I think with the growing possibility that characters may die after the timeskip, it may be prudent to add a section into character infoboxes to convey their current status in the storyline. Most wikia sites do it already and I think it would be useful to avoid anything happening like this in a hypothetical scenario

-- Age x (before timeskip) -- Age x (after timeskip) (deceased)

Maybe it's just me, but this comes off as a little messy and it would be much more attractive in the article if we did it like this.

-- Age x (before timeskip) -- Age x (after timeskip) -- Status: Deceased

This would also be useful to showcase the status of characters with unknown ages, such as Rosinante.

Thoughts? --Mandon (talk) 07:05, November 23, 2014 (UTC)

Discussion
Bump.. --Mandon (talk) 01:26, January 11, 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, this sounds pretty useful to me. I like dealing with things before they become a problem. I would lean towards the first option though, since if we include "status" we'll probably get more newbs trying to make characters dead. 04:26, January 16, 2015 (UTC)

We already do it the first way. SeaTerror (talk) 05:19, January 16, 2015 (UTC)

I wasn't giving options. lol I was basically comparing the system we had now to a new proposed system. As for people changing people's statuses to dead.. well that can [and has] already happened with the current system, so I'd call that a non-issue. The main concern I have is characters who don't have established ages in the series. There's no way to convey them as "dead" like we can with Ace or Whitebeard. If we displayed the status of characters in the infobox, it would basically solve this issue as well as make infoboxes more aesthetically cleaner. --Mandon (talk) 06:35, January 16, 2015 (UTC)

Oops, sorry for misunderstanding. So yeah, I wouldn't want to include a character's current status because it would lead to noobs trying to alter it. And if a character is deceased, the article does a decent job of showing that, it doesn't need to be in the infobox. 21:48, January 18, 2015 (UTC)