Talk: Bevin

Revision as of 23:31, 5 December 2009

Do we really need a character role for Bevin, he is a very minor character and only appears once and he is already covered in the A Missing CHild page and Kaitlyn's page. I'm putting this up as suggestion for deletion/merge.

If you want to hold a discussion about what we should or should not give a separate page, please put it up in the wiki forum. As far as I know, there are already separate pages for characters and those are classified as people you can have a discussion with. It is hand so you can link to them, see their location, and you can search for them using the wiki search. Otherwise you could hold a same discussion about the need to create a page for every unique item, location or creature.--Mytharox 23:05, December 5, 2009 (UTC)

It was already state that character pages were based upon judgement, there are no set rules for a character. In my opinion, a character like Tomas is part of the main quest, he introduces you to Redcliffe, but he is not seen afterwards, still he contributes to a major role. Bevin is a minor character, it is optional to find him and I suggest we redirect Bevin to the "A Missing Child" sidequest, which is how it was originally. The Missing Child sidequest is not even linked to this page. Kaitlyn is justified because she is the quest giver and ender. Items, creatures and locations are justified because you encounter them and they play a tangible role. This should be a PART of the A Missing Child sidequest not a separate article. It is a grey area, but look at the page for Irenia, is that really necessary? Can't we just put Irenia's photo on the "Notices of Death" questpage? WHy would we have 4 different pages for 4 minor characters part of an overarching quest? --Galith 23:15, December 5, 2009 (UTC)

In my opinion it's justified to give characters an own page, as long as there is unique information to them like a screenshot, dialog you can have with them and write about, items (key in Bevin's case) that you can optionally retrieve from him, a location where he can be found now and later. If it is really nessecary you ask, well not really, you can bunch everything you want together, like it was in Redcliffe Village before, almost everything there was described on a single page. (Just check the history) But is that nice to look at? I think not, I prefer to be able to search for things, see their screenshot, look at detailed info and screenshots of a person. Even in the case of Irenia, she is also used in the description of the quest, so if you at that moment wonder what she looks like, you simply click her name and see a screenshot. Maybe later on her page could be a map showing her exact location, I don't know. Ut's a question of what you like then, a single page per person, or not. But having a discussion about every character and determining if they are worthy or not to have an own page. I don't like that. Also people might just add the same persons later, when they play the game and think/find that they are missing. I rather have such a discussion about what should get or not get it's own page on the wiki forum then and establish some rules if needed.--Mytharox 23:31, December 5, 2009 (UTC)

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 :If you want to hold a discussion about what we should or should not give a separate page, please put it up in the wiki forum. As far as I know, there are already separate pages for characters and those are classified as people you can have a discussion with. It is hand so you can link to them, see their location, and you can search for them using the wiki search. Otherwise you could hold a same discussion about the need to create a page for every unique item, location or creature.--[[User:Mytharox|Mytharox]] 23:05, December 5, 2009 (UTC)
 It was already state that character pages were based upon judgement, there are no set rules for a character.  In my opinion, a character like Tomas is part of the main quest, he introduces you to Redcliffe, but he is not seen afterwards, still he contributes to a major role.  Bevin is a minor character, it is optional to find him and I suggest we redirect Bevin to the "A Missing Child" sidequest, which is how it was originally.  The Missing Child sidequest is not even linked to this page.  Kaitlyn is justified because she is the quest giver and ender.  Items, creatures and locations are justified because you encounter them and they play a tangible role.  This should be a PART of the A Missing Child sidequest not a separate article.  It is a grey area, but look at the page for Irenia, is that really necessary?  Can't we just put Irenia's photo on the "Notices of Death" questpage?  WHy would we have 4 different pages for 4 minor characters part of an overarching quest?  --[[User:Galith|Galith]] 23:15, December 5, 2009 (UTC)
+::In my opinion it's justified to give characters an own page, as long as there is unique information to them like a screenshot, dialog you can have with them and write about, items (key in Bevin's case) that you can optionally retrieve from him, a location where he can be found now and later. If it is really nessecary you ask, well not really, you can bunch everything you want together, like it was in [[Redcliffe Village]] before, almost everything there was described on a single page. (Just check the history) But is that nice to look at? I think not, I prefer to be able to search for things, see their screenshot, look at detailed info and screenshots of a person. Even in the case of Irenia, she is also used in the description of the quest, so if you at that moment wonder what she looks like, you simply click her name and see a screenshot. Maybe later on her page could be a map showing her exact location, I don't know. Ut's a question of what you like then, a single page per person, or not. But having a discussion about every character and determining if they are worthy or not to have an own page. I don't like that. Also people might just add the same persons later, when they play the game and think/find that they are missing. I rather have such a discussion about what should get or not get it's own page on the wiki forum then and establish some rules if needed.--[[User:Mytharox|Mytharox]] 23:31, December 5, 2009 (UTC)