Board Thread:Projects/@comment-30128802-20170725074359/@comment-24729554-20170725175038

I prefer "biography" since it works as a title for all the information about a character in and of itself, whereas "background" does not. In some cases, background did/does contain the entire known information about a character, even though by the definition of background, that doesn't make sense. That's why I switched to biography, but the switch-over wasn't across the board which has led to inconsistencies. I would disagree on one point about the advantages of using the background heading. In the example you gave of Beth DuClare, I would say that using game headings actually makes it more difficult to include the information about her. We know things about her not just from the games but also the 2 novels, so including all of these titles as subheadings would be sloppy. Also there's certain things we know about her past from the original which happen around the time of the newer games, or at least before the original. So it's unclear which game heading that should be included in. I think an in-universe approach is more straightforward in this respect.

There will never be a layout that works perfectly for every type of article and character, so it's a matter of choosing the one that works the best most often. I would say this is "biography" with in-universe subheadings.

On a related topic, it might also be good to discuss whether we would prefer to keep our articles in-universe or not. I've noticed that statements like "...who is one of the main antagonists of the series.." have been added to some articles recently, which I personally am not a supporter of. For example in the Bob Page article, everything in the main article except the antagonist statement is in-universe so it seems out of place to me. I also would prefer to see the games a character features in only mentioned in the infobox (especially when the character appears in multiple games, plus spin-off material). What's your take on this matter?