Template talk:Infobox Character General

I removed that irrelevant crap

But there's a problem. Look at Mario's page; there is something on the right and it appears to be a result of disruption. Please help? BNK ^[E|T|C] 03:32, August 2, 2010 (UTC)

Is the disruption you're speaking of is the Japanese voice actor section, where it just says {{{japanactor}}}? Omega Tyrant 12:07, August 2, 2010 (UTC)

Well, that is now the problem; on pages such as Gordo, there appears {{{japanactor}}} even though the code has been removed. Could someone fix that? BNK ^[E|T|C] 23:03, August 7, 2010 (UTC)

On my computer this template adds in an extra }} after it on every page. I cant immediately see where this comes from on the page but it needs to be fixed Oni Dark Link 15:50, August 4, 2010 (UTC)

Fixed it. Toomai Glittershine 15:57, August 4, 2010 (UTC)

Um, apparently some users can't take a hint and keep putting that nonsense back up here. I'm removing that stuff again until a user gives me a logical reason why we should keep it. Doctor Pain 99 (CTE) 23:19, September 7, 2010 (UTC)

Series symbol in template

People seem to be debating whether the general character pages should have the subject's series symbol floating to the top left of the article text. Should we put it in the template (below the caption) instead? Toomai Glittershine The Superlative 10:03, 17 November 2012 (EST)

Yeah they should be below the caption like on the articles with those characters playable.Brawls of fury (talk) 17:56, 17 November 2012 (EST)

Definitely. It looks much, much better aesthetically. Air Conditioner a real nowhere man 17:05, 20 November 2012 (EST)

Below caption, since stages have that as well. --RoyboyX Talk 17:51, 22 November 2012 (EST)

Can we start doing this? Brawls of fury (talk) 16:58, 26 November 2012 (EST)

...So yes? Brawls of fury (talk) 16:45, 27 November 2012 (EST)

Reduction of unnecessary fluff

I propose the following:

1. Remove the "hair" and "eyes" lines. It should be immediately apparent from the images provided on the page.
2. Remove the "homeworld" line. In most cases it provides little relevant information, and in several terminology has to be outright invented.
3. Compression of the "creator" and "artist" lines.
4. Compression of the voice actor lines into one line that lists who voices them in Smash. We don't need to list every person who has ever provided that character's voice in their home series.
5. Not using this template on Assist Trophy character pages, and instead implementing a simpler infobox specifically for Assist Trophies who don't need this much detail. (Additionally, AT pages should use their Smash artwork in their infoboxes, not original-series artwork like playable characters).

Thoughts? Miles (talk) 23:52, 16 May 2014 (EDT)

I agree with most of this, though I also think the voice actor line is dumb and needs to go. Toomai Glittershine The Sphere 10:38, 17 May 2014 (EDT)

Oppose Some of It

1. "Hair" and "eyes" is admittedly fluff-ish, but it really isn't too irrelevant to place on this template, in my opinion.
2. "Homeworld" is a rather important section, in my opinion. The only terminology we ever really had to invent was for Villager and Rosalina (and even then, claiming to have "invented" these names is kinda pushing it.)
3. "Creator" and "artist" should be compressed.
4. "I agree with your voice actor proposal.
5. We already use {{AssistTrophy}} for Assist Trophies. It is much simpler, and it has a pretty good amount of info in it, without looking overwhelming. Also, I think that series-artwork looks better than Smash artwork for them. I don't really see why we would want to have just the Smash-artwork. ChuckNorris 12:09, 17 May 2014 (EDT)

Sometimes people debate about the hair and eyes. Rosalina is an example of when we debated about whether she has blue eyes or green eyes. C'mon, they're obviously blue. They are only slightly lighter than Mario's and they are no where near Sonic's. And I don't like that "opal" compromise because no one knows the color opal. It's just some variation of blue which is a natural eye color. When I see a character that has eyes close enough to natural eye colors, I'd rather have the simple color instead of some advanced variation. We'd might as well consider Peach's hair to be yellow instead of blonde. Nintendo meant Rosalina to be the color of the sky (blue). If we can't figure out whether something is blue or green, might as well leave it out of the template. Homeworld is pretty much debatable too. A lot of characters are from Earth. Sonic's homeworld of Mobius is only canon to the comics and cartoons. His games take place on Earth. Homeworld should probably be merged with universe. I've already removed some non-Smash voice actors so that should be justified. We do have an infobox for assist trophies. I think what really needs an infobox are the cameos big enough to have pages. Slippy Toad shouldn't use a general infobox as he's never playable and Otacon isn't an assist trophy. I also think maybe universes that don't have a symbol in the games but had a symbol created for interwiki purposes such as Golden Sun should use those symbols and we can create more unofficial symbols to universes that don't have them, like Tomachi. However, the unofficial symbols should probably be only created after Smash 4 comes out since you never know if they would add symbols. SeanWheeler (talk) 19:43, 17 May 2014 (EDT)

Bringing this back up.

1. Remove hair, eyes, and artist. Hair and eyes are really flufflish, and is artist really necessary when we have creator?
2. Either remove console of origin or merge it with first appearance. You can click on the game title for a reason, and it would tell you the game's console.
3. Compress voice actors to only the Smash actors. Allowing more is begging for unnecessary bloating.

We should preferably settle this before Smash 4 comes out and the huge wave of new characters arrives. intendrone⁴² 16:27, 3 July 2014 (EDT)

I'm fine with removing hair, eyes, and artist. However, merging "First Appearance" with "Console of Origin" is a terrible idea on my opinion. ChuckNorris 16:42, 3 July 2014 (EDT)

Yeah, I wasn't totally sure about the console one, but put it up just in case. intendrone⁴² 16:49, 3 July 2014 (EDT)