Thread:Neria Phan/@comment-4638690-20170405210222/@comment-4638690-20170406210233

Hey there, apologies for the late reply!

Just going to address the second issue you brought up before I address the part about why I moved Relationships to their own seperate page. Yes, you technically can to it like that, but I personally do not reccommended it. That page would benefit by putting a Plot header to help better distinguish to people coming in to read about the content without any knowledge of what a Wikia is.

Anyways, to the point you mentioned about relationships being it's own page, while Wikia editing and writing about your favorite characters/episodes/etc can be really fun (one of my favorite pasttimes honestly), the main purpose of a Wikia's existence is for people to come and easily read/learn about whatever the Wikia is about (in this case, it's BoBoiBoy) in an easy and sometimes quick manner. Not everyone who comes to a Wikia necessarily knows how a Wkia works, and it's good to have everything easily navigatable and accessible to a new user. Character pages in particular can get really chunky and long. When things get too long or big, they can get very messy, which is why Wikias often have subpages for certain characters (especially protagonists) so people who may have never been on a wikia before, can easily navigate through the information with ease.

Take for example, Randy Cunningham 's page on the 9th Grade Ninja Wikia, he has a subpage for basically everything (Trivia, Appearances, Images, Quotes, and Relationships) because there's so much content that could be written about him, it's better to keep them as a seperate page just so people can easily find what they want to find out. Sometimes, yes, maybe there's not much we can say about a relationships, as seen in Linda 's page on the DreadOut Wikia (a wikia which I am an admin of), though she does have a subpage for her costumes (since that got a little too chunky and started crowding the man page), but generally speaking it's good to cateogrize pages that are too large with subpages. For the BoBoiBoy Wikia's case, seeing how there was literally paragraphs and paragraphs of information just on BoBoiBoy's relationships with other characters, the content was a strong enough substance to be it's own page. To follow the format, the other main character pages will have them as well, though very, very minor characters might not need to.

Another question that pops up is 'why not make everything that's long and chunky into a seperate page?' and it's a decision that Wikia Editors often have to make. Many other wikias create subpages for the 'Story' section and for many others, I usually go by the rule of thumb that the main pages exist to tell us about what the page is about, subpages exist as supplementary information. People don't need to know about BoBoiBoy's relationships, but people may want to, but not all of them. In a character page, things like Story, Personality, Appearance, Skills/Abilities is necessary essential information that should go on the main page because it tells us who the character is and what they mean in the story. Of course, it depends on what reason a Wikia is there for (for example, a Wikia about games may have a seperate subpage for appearances because a character may have different costumes or apperances each game).

Something I'm considering is making a seperate page for 'Story' as well, as it can and will get incredibly long, tedious and quite a novella to read, but I will think about this decision some more before I make a move. Something that I might do is take general information (like a summary essentially) and put in the Story while detailed episodic based descriptions (like BoBoiBoy did this in episode 3) can have their own page. I will be testing it out on BoBoiBoy Leaf's page, since at this moment, Leaf's page is probably the most up-to-date character and complete page on the Wikia.

I hope this answers your questions!

- Jae (azurajae)

P.S. I've been promoted to an admin because a fellow admin deemed my edits and contributions to be very helpful, and saw that I could better help benefit the wikia as an admin! I look forward to working with you!