Thread:Roger Murtaugh/@comment-16533050-20200826220126/@comment-16533050-20200827074327

While we're on this subject, a couple things I noticed and corrected real quick.

I removed the DefaultSort by name for the voice actors. It seemed odd to have them only there and not for the actual characters. Also, only about half of them had this, so it seemed more of random choice than anything. To keep everything consistent, you don't have to worry about adding them in the future.

With Categories I usually try to make sure Parent Categories aren't added except under very exceptional rules. A lot of the VA pages (and regrettably a sizable chunk of the wiki) still had unnecessary Parent Categories on the pages. I and a few others such as Dsegno92 have been trying to whittle them down slowly but surely. I took care of the ones on the VA pages so there wouldn't be any inconsistencies. I also made Real World a parent category of Voice Actors and went ahead and removed them from the pages as well.

Categories also don't have to be in order. If you're making a new page or something and want them to be in a specific order, then that's fine, but it isn't necessary to rearrange pre-set ones. Some editors may do them alphabetically while others may do them by the order the games came out, and still others may do them by the chronological order of the games. This will just end in a headache, lol, so you don't have to rearrange them for older pages.

Something I just noticed (and this was something I messed up as well), is that the Categories of Male and Female are supposed to be used to denote characters, not real world people like the VA. The Male category page defines it properly, but the Female one did not. I added a definition to the Female cat page and clarified the Male one as well. As I said, I messed this up by adding the cat myself to a couple of pages. I went ahead and removed the two aforementioned categories from the remaining VA pages as they aren't necessary.

Sorry for the huge info-dump here. This was mostly just points that needed clarity. Please don't worry about anything as not everything here is as clearly laid out as it should be. As I noted above, I was doing some things wrong and I've been here for years. ;)

- Geist