Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24081824-20160718235446/@comment-23.122.217.39-20160822155709

Ah--I'm glad you like my suggestion now Dany, but are you sure you looked at the article in Octo's sandbox, and not the one that's currently up? Because the detail about the servants' knocking was cut off (and replaced with the fact that Gallerian had hired them, because the whole detail seemed to be there for the purpose of announcing he had servants). The fact that they have distinctive knocking styles is a fact I think could better be served on their own pages.

As for tabs, while I did voice my support for it earlier, I'm becoming disenchanted with the idea as being specifically about "fixing" article length. Tabs are for organization, not making things smaller--and to use them for the latter purpose feels a little bit like putting a square peg into a round hole. And I think there are going to be a lot of headaches, if we do completely sort out the coding issue (which it sounds to me like even FNAF doesn't have it ironed out too well), surrounding how exactly we're going to divide up the articles in a way that makes sense for organizational purposes and makes each tab an easy to digest bit of the article as intended.

And the main reason I'm bringing this all up is that, as has been pointed out, people on here are busy, sometimes they lose motivation, sometimes they don't know what to do--I think we should be very cautious of choosing solutions that sound like the best of both worlds but would in practice involve a lot of extra work that can keep it from being implemented.

I do have another idea for a tab system but it's not in answer to the length issue specifically and only applies to certain characters so I'm putting it in a different thread so as to not confuse the two.

AS FOR THE OTHER THINGS, because we are getting a little off track,

1. A, although with the stipulation that in removing all External Links type links to any translations we should instead link to translations in the citations section of articles. Because really, the information isn't coming from the work itself, it's coming from a translation of it, and we should be clear on that.

2. A, B, C, D, E, F

3. (already given most of my opinion on this, although I will say I am very much against E)

5. A, B, C, D