Board Thread:Policies/@comment-61022-20130405205930/@comment-1713281-20130406230751

While you've been working on this project for a year, as admirable as that is, you seem to have a backwards concept of how making changes works around here.

Just because you make a sweeping change/update/add-on for the site, especially something as big as this proposed change, which is highly visible and requires changing to a ton of our code, it doesn't automatically guarantee that the change will be implemented, let alone accepted with high fives and kind words. It would have made much more sense had you brought a sample of your idea to the staff of the site and gotten some feedback/opinions before throwing all your efforts into it.

Ask any admin. We go round and round with each other about changes that are suggested for the site before they are ever made, and there are a number of things that never see the light of day on the site.

Even still, the fact that the DC side has some colored infoboxes, isn't enough of a reason to add them here. I'm not sure why we admins (both here, and over on DC side) have to constantly explain this, but we are in fact, separate sites. We are companion sites, for sure, but we also operate in completely different ways, and features or rules on one site has no bearing on the other.

On the merits of these ideas, I do have a few reservations. Firstly, I don't really know if it even needs to happen. Don't get me wrong, it looks kinda cool, but it serves no solid purpose other than looking nice. Secondly, what about characters that don't fall into these templates? Just of the top of my head, I can think of people Armless Tiger Man, Shang-Chi and all of those related Deadly Hands characters, or the dozens of western cowboys and wartime heroes from the olden days like Two-Gun Kid and Black Rider, or Combat Kelly and Combat Casey. Are they all to use a plain infobox?