Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5759915-20160816224415

Ok so there are quite a few things to discuss about our policy towards minor things- that don't really have a category.

For starters, I came up with various discussion topics

1) Characters Titles only mentioned in songs 2) Songs belonging to a Series 3) Articles for Unnamed characters 4) Personality sections 5) Quotes

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1) example: Maria Moonlit, Mariam Futapie and Abyss I.R.

So what was decided last year in the OSSCE discussion was that Maria wouldn't have the alias "Queen of the Glass" because we didn't know if people called her that way-- despite that being the title of her song and a line saying exactly "Alice Merry Go Round Queen of the Glass". Same goes for Abyss I.R. being called the "Sorceress of Chaos". A similar case is Mariam, called "Neomaria of the Inverted Gravestone". I say, to clear all potential? confusion to any new fans, that we add a small text (like with the (by Chartette) in the other names section) with something like "(used in song)"

2) example: Blink

I am stronly against not adding Blink to the story of evil series. I don't remember all the arguments used in favour for that, but I recall that one of them was it not being in a story of evil album. Well to my knowledge the only story of evil album (except trinity which is for anothee thread) is Four Melodies of Evil, which has only 4 songs, and one is only an instrumental. I see no reason for not adding blink to the Story of Evil series. It's a song about the Daughter of Evil's [of which the series is named after] feelings and hopes for the future; takes place in between Story of Evil songs and is therefore In the main Story of Evil chronology AND -the most important argument to me- is literally a scene from Wiegenlied of Green (in which Clarith and Rin pray in front of the sapling Michaela). This argument potentially extends to the SCaP response songs, but I am neutral towards that.

3) example: Clarith's mom and others

Clarith's mother, Yatski Shaman, Anonymous, whatever you like to call her, is a very important character. Her Personality and Skills section would not be stretched either. The only issue here is that she doesn't have a name. Is anyone really against a page for her? It would also not be the first time we "create" names for article purposes either. The same goes for other characters who are over the minimum number of lines to have an article: the Uknown Coachman and Graveyard Waiter, although I'm  not so sure about how much stuff will be written in the Personality and Skills sections. Also, for the former, I'd take off the "Uknown" in his name for an hypothetical page.

4) example: Bruno Marlon, Maylis Beelzenia and others

Characters like the 2 above have undergone huge personality development after their deaths. Bruno Marlon reflected on pretty much everything he did, and Maylis changed her mind about the man who abducted her. I cant even present reasons for why the afterlife development isnt listed in the Personality sections, because I wonder how it is not there in the first olace. (Btw you could argue that anyone has the innate thing to reflect on their actions if in the hellish yard- but Venomania and many others surely kept their believes).

5) example: Lulila song, Leonhart's song and others

Whenever we bave an important-enough-to-be-quoted line for a song But it's in 3rd person or we just don't know the singer, we put "???" I think the way its written "???", puts such emphasis on the mystery of the singer that is almost misleading in a way. So I propose that we change that from "???" to simply- and clearly- "Narration". Having a general quote with an "???" feels also a bit out of place, you know?

Alright. This was probably my longest thread ever.

When you'll discuss the things I proposed, I strongly ask you put the number beside to avoid any more confusion (like 3) [opinion on clarith's mom])

Thank you for reading up to this point. 