Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-3406131-20150911144716/@comment-3406131-20151005091218

Peteparker wrote: Undoniel wrote: In fact, it would be more relevant. I was told it was better to keep them with a text stating they were unknown, for user to fill them, but in most cases it's not even possible to fill them. Then it's easy, fill them in with text like, "This character has no Powers." But that has not much interest : If a character (or rather a species) has no powers, it is best to just skip to the next thing. That's kind of a rule to me : focus on the existing. When a character has a power grid but no powers, I place the grid in the abilities section.

Undoniel wrote: My bad, I missed the power grid. In other cases, like this one I recently created, it doesn't show anything except the history text, which is the only field I understand appearing when unfilled, as it is the only one who can be filled in any cases.

I don't see the powers section showing up on that page... There isn't, as the character wasn't developed enough by its creators for us to know its powers, and the character template doesn't create any other field than "history" if the fields are unfilled. Although others would have copy-pasted an Eternal powers to it, even if there is no clue that would apply exactly to those Eternals).

(and thanks by the way for the screenshot, I had left a few errors in that page that I only discovered, and it made appear another tiny problem: "Eyes2" transform the first letter of its field into a capital letter)

To clarify, the character template (without the line feeds problem) is the model I think would be the best for all template, with a few exceptions:
 * HistoryText on all template
 * Synopsis for the events and issues
 * etc (you get the picture).

To parody, having a field "notes" with as only text "no notes" seems to me like receiving a mail to inform you that you haven't received any mail.

Undoniel wrote: Every other fields than history text. Example with Homo habilis and Eternals of Ron-Shor. The information actually existing is drowned into an ocean of "unknown".

Same problem (in a lesser way) with the teams and locations ("no notes", "no trivia"...)

Some of that is intentional. I agree that in the case of races, it can get really... bad. Please bring this up to the other administrators, as taking out 'everything but history' is a significant change to the way the site looks.

One of my initial concerns are pages where the history is barely a sentence, and the majority of the page is the infobox, which is ugly. I can understand it (Dominocanicus (Earth-616) seems to be the limit). That's the two limits: A page with an infobox dwarfing the text vs. a few information drowned into an ocean "no known ***", "no ***" or "*** is unknown".

I'll inform the others (linking here, as it is part of the simplification and harmonization).