Forum:Manga Chapter, Character Tables

Introduction
Since something so small as updating chapter character tables had led to so many discussions and arguments even after things were talked about with a bunch of member on chat it is now best to create a forum about them to 1) have everything talked about 2) have everything diceded about and 3) as to have proof of the things that a majority of people decided about once upon a time ago.

So without further adue lets get to all the different issues :

(OnePieceNation (talk) 10:12, August 14, 2012 (UTC))

Issues
1 Links

2 Categories

3 Parentheses

4 Notes

5 Lines

6 Locations/Crews

7 Animals

(OnePieceNation (talk) 10:12, August 14, 2012 (UTC))

1 Links
Once upon a time the majority decided to make the character table all links like this :

Example 1

instead of partly or not at all links like this:

Example 2

To me having the character table be all links meaning all character names, catagories and locations are links to that character, location or catagorie is the only logical way of doing character tables. And to me it also look the most proffesional but I will get into that in the catagories section below.

If you don't want the character tables being all links please state your reasons under this post.

(OnePieceNation (talk) 10:12, August 14, 2012 (UTC))

To make things simpler two options:

Option 1 :All links (characters, categories, locations, crews)

Option 2: Not all links (others)

(OnePieceNation (talk) 11:38, August 14, 2012 (UTC))

2 Categories
The second issue are the categories, which to use and in which order to use them. In the example 1 above you, you will see that all categories are links and at the top of the table and that each categorie is one column.

The categories in the most logical order are like this:

Pirates

Marines

Citizens

World Government
 * Shichibukai
 * CP9

Bounty Hunters

Bandits

Animals

First as you can see the categories are by character frequence meaning the categorie which contains the most named  important  characters comes first (pirates) and the one who contains the least comes last (bandits) and is only followed by the categorie animals who can be viewed seperately.

Second as you can see Shichibukai and CP9 don't get their own categories but become sub-categories under world government instead.

Again to me this is the only way to do categories, since just writing other as a categorie is both ugly and lazy.

Again if you don't agree with these categories, want to add, change, remove, change around categories than please list/state your view or ideas about them under this post.

(OnePieceNation (talk) 10:12, August 14, 2012 (UTC))

To make things simpler two options about categorization:

Option 1 Categorize in order of character frequency with Animals always coming last and with every little group (bounty hunters, bandits) getting its own categorie.

Option 2 Categorize only by big categories and little catagories becoming sub-categories (CP9, Shichibukai, Bounty Hunters, Bandits).

And two options about where to put shichibukai.

Option 1 Put them under World Government because they work directly under them

Option 2 put them under Pirates since they are still basically pirates.

And two options about Bounty Hunter, Bandits.

Option 1 put them under citizens because they are still citizens of the one piece world dispite the fact that they are bandits/bounty hunters.

Option 2 Leave them to their own categorie.

(OnePieceNation (talk) 11:38, August 14, 2012 (UTC))

3 Parentheses
Again when it comes to parentheses/brackets there are two issues, first what to put in them and secondly how to display them.

So far only three things by my reckoning have been put in brackets namely : cover, flashback and on wanted poster. If there are others I must have overlooked them. To me nothing more then these three things need to be in brackets, though some people may argue that notes can be created for these things instead, which would make the character tables shorter.

Next is how to display them which has caused a lot of arguments and back and forth undoing. Seaterror told me it was decided to only do the words in brackets and not in brackets and italics as DP keeps doing it. DP for some reason wants to have them in italics which is unnecessary and stupid, for the simple reason that the words are already in parentheses and that putting them in italics does nothing more then accentuate them a little bit more, which is unnecessary.

So there are three options here:

Option 1 Only do them in brackets

Option 2 Do them in brackets and italics

Option 3 Don't do them at all and just make them notes.

Please state what you prefer and why under this post.

(OnePieceNation (talk) 11:38, August 14, 2012 (UTC))

Discussion
What are you trying to say on this forum? 09:29, August 14, 2012 (UTC)

Huh? What is this I don't even Galaxy9000 (talk) 09:32, August 14, 2012 (UTC)

What part of not yet finished do you girls not understand? I am obviously still looking over character tables and what problems the present. (OnePieceNation (talk) 10:12, August 14, 2012 (UTC))

I'm a male. Galaxy9000 (talk) 10:17, August 14, 2012 (UTC)

First things first. It's difficult to take you seriously on such an OCD-filled topic when you keep saying things like 'catagories'. It's categories. Now, the actual issues: Regarding categories: 10:45, August 14, 2012 (UTC)
 * What do you mean by 'all links', 'partly links' and 'not at all links'? If you're just referring to the existence of the 'Other' category, well, you just have to deal with it. The fact is, not every character fits into one of the categories, and in such a case the 'Other' category is necessary.
 * Shichibukai should be under Pirates, not World Government, as we've been doing in recent chapters. The Shichibukai are defined as "seven powerful and notorious pirates who have allied themselves with the World Government". That is, all of them can be considered pirates, but they're not members of the World Government themselves - they merely serve under the WG in the same way the Marines do.
 * As a side note, in the Alabasta arc, I think Crocodile should be put in the Baroque Works category, not Shichibukai (same as how Gecko Moriah is associated with Thriller Bark and Boa Hancock with the Kuja Pirates). This will get rid of a useless column.
 * The necessity of the 'bounty hunters', 'bandits' and 'animals' categories is questionable. They could go into the 'Other' column as subcategories (similar to crew names).

One spelling error really, that's just lame of you. Anyways there is no need for an other categori as all characters can be categorized under one of those categories. Example 2 should have the locations fish man island and arabasta instead of others and Gyro should have a link to pirates like this ??? Pirates. The point you make about the shichibukai is a valid one that the community should decide on. Your totally right when it comes to crocodile. The bandits and bounty hunters categories wheren't thought up or created by me, but I do feel that they can be put under citizens because they are basically still that, but again this is something that should be discussed further. (OnePieceNation (talk) 11:38, August 14, 2012 (UTC))