Difference between revisions of "Sonic the Hedgehog"
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I (Mysterics) have started adding more personality description, I hope this will inspire others to have a go. | I (Mysterics) have started adding more personality description, I hope this will inspire others to have a go. | ||
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| + | So it's on record somewhere - these character pages are very wordy and are duplicating info listed elsewhere on the wiki. I think, as this comment above (from 2013!) ^ suggests, this article isn't describing "Sonic the Hedgehog" as much as it is "what Sonic the Hedgehog did in games/TV/whatever". I can see why it's been done - Wikipedia writes character pages this way, but we don't need to. | ||
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| + | That is to say, we don't need every origin story explained in great detail, we don't need the details on how Naoto Oshima invented him ([[Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit)/Development]] will do that better) and we don't need walls of texts describing his entire life story in the Archie continuity. I'm probably going to reduce some of it, but someone might have to check this information is covered in the right places. | ||
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| + | What we do need are references for things like age and height and official descriptions of personality if they exist. They exist in manuals but it takes effort to look them up -[[User:Black Squirrel|Black Squirrel]] ([[User talk:Black Squirrel|talk]]) 12:41, 21 May 2019 (EDT) | ||
Revision as of 12:41, 21 May 2019
Too much plot elaboration, not enough character elaboration
For example Sonic's 'personality and traits' describes Sonic's powers and in-universe history more than it does his personality, and I feel the sections regarding the different in-universes such as cartoons or comics should contain mainly information about Sonic's personality/portrayal within those media. I propose this article should change majorly in order to describe less plot and more of Sonic personality and role.
I (Mysterics) have started adding more personality description, I hope this will inspire others to have a go.
Duplication
So it's on record somewhere - these character pages are very wordy and are duplicating info listed elsewhere on the wiki. I think, as this comment above (from 2013!) ^ suggests, this article isn't describing "Sonic the Hedgehog" as much as it is "what Sonic the Hedgehog did in games/TV/whatever". I can see why it's been done - Wikipedia writes character pages this way, but we don't need to.
That is to say, we don't need every origin story explained in great detail, we don't need the details on how Naoto Oshima invented him (Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit)/Development will do that better) and we don't need walls of texts describing his entire life story in the Archie continuity. I'm probably going to reduce some of it, but someone might have to check this information is covered in the right places.
What we do need are references for things like age and height and official descriptions of personality if they exist. They exist in manuals but it takes effort to look them up -Black Squirrel (talk) 12:41, 21 May 2019 (EDT)