Template talk:Character Infobox

Revamp
This infobox requires a bit of work to be properly informative, as its name suggests. My suggestions:


 * Get rid of birth and death dates, status, height, hair and eye colour.
 * Revamp it so that it includes:
 * Name
 * Character mugshot
 * Games he appears in/is mentioned in
 * Voice actor
 * Gender
 * Nationality
 * Augmentations
 * Family
 * Affiliation
 * Ranks held
 * Weapons used

As it currently is, it's uninformative and cumbersome :(. http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/0/08/Personal_Sig_Image.gif Tagaziel (call!) 18:19, January 21, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hello Mikael ;) ! For your suggestions, for hair and eyes is better to keep them, they are more important than most other universe because some character is augmented and therefore their eyes change. For birth dates, for important characters like JC Denton and death dates for historical characters like Adam Weishaupt. For status and height I agree, they're useless. Itachou [~talk~] 00:25, January 22, 2011 (UTC)

Look at the size of this thing!
The infoboxes have become ridiculously large and unwieldy. Most of the time information the infobox tries to convey would be better given inside the article (and guess what, it usually is). Please see Manual of Style on Wikipedia to see the intended use of infoboxes. Now look at Paul Denton:
 * Date of death is unnecessary. Whether he dies or not depends on the player; "possibly this or that" is just an expression of lack of knowledge, which is the opposite of what the infobox is supposed to do
 * Hair and eye color are usually unnecessary, because the only source on them is the mugshot - something the readers can inspect themselves; it's just a waste of space
 * Weapons take too much space and are too variable; there's nothing preventing the character from simply taking another weapon
 * Current status - unknown, pfft... There are some other questions, like when is "current". What happens to the character is better explained inside the article
 * Notable facts are just a trashcan; pretty much anything can go in there. A much better place for a quick summary in the introductory section of the article
 * Augmentations, "bioluminescent cells", "subdermal pigmentation"... which means? Actual Augmentations the character uses might be useful if we had authoritative sources on them.
 * Family and Acquaintances, they don't give enough information to be useful and take too much space if expanded

What I think may stay:
 * Name
 * Image (why not several switchable pictures showing the character in different games, like in Homeworld wiki?)
 * Nationality/ethnicity - very simple datum that nevertheless provides some important insight into the character
 * Date of birth (if known) - it places the character in the timeline and gives a hint on his or her age in every game
 * Appearances (simple mentions of the character should be used sparingly so they don't clog the list)
 * Affiliation - it practically supersedes the Acquaintances section
 * Voice actor - useful and it's the only place where it can be conveniently fitted.

Please discuss. --Nathan2000 (talk) 11:25, May 25, 2015 (UTC)