Category talk:Major Characters
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We haven't even gotten started with the tags database yet so I'm not sure how many strips Molly's been in, but I wouldn't consider her a major character, especially since she hasn't "starred" in any story threads yet.
However, we may want to consider any character with a blog a "major character." Although again, I'd be wary about classifying Nice Pete as a major character. The only robot I'd even consider major is Lie Bot especially in the first year of the strip. --Jough 06:55, 16 May 2005 (GMT)
I wasn't really sure about this one when I entered it. At first I put Molly in because of her blog but now I'm kind of doubting that decision because LN seems to update more frequently than she does and he's certainly not Major. Unless we get a supporting comment I think I'll remove Molly from here.
Also, do we want other character categories? Minor? Very Minor? Medium? As I've said I'm new at wikis so I don't want to over- or under-classify things. --CortJstr 13:20, 16 May 2005 (GMT)
I've been thinking about this myself, and I'm proposing three different levels:
- Major characters - five stuffed animals, three cats. Maybe adding Molly over time.
- Minor charasters - Everyone from Molly down to about Arthur.
- Peripheral characters - everyone else. The difference between "minor" and "peripheral" in my head is recurrence. If you keep showing up in the strip, you move up to a minor character. There also has to be a level of importance to your presence. For example, the guys who were all blubbery over Pat's "Day Tripper intro, ad nauseum" who came back to ogle the SaniTaco! stand, even though they showed up again, weren't "important" enough to warrant being minor characters. Their lines could have said just as easily by someone else. Arthur, on the other hand, is the only one who can get away with "Paaaaat!"
CortJstr, wikis tend to be way into categorizing. I wouldn't get too worried about over-categorizing until you find yourself at four in the morning making categories for which characters are drawn with jowls and which ones aren't. As long as you're not crossing that line, you're cool. --Golfhaus 13:57, 16 May 2005 (GMT)
That sounds cool. I was thinking about making a couple "global" categories like "characters" and "locations" but wasn't sure if that was the way things are done. --CortJstr 14:47, 16 May 2005 (GMT)
Generally, you can "nest" categories, so that a category like "Characters" would have three sub-categories, the major/minor/peripheral categories, along with entries that don't fit in one of the sub-categories (although that wouldn't to apply to a category like "characters"). As a rule, you don't list entries in that main category and one of the sub-categories, but that's a Wikipedia convention we don't have to follow if it doesn't suit us. I'm thinking at least in the case of Characters, it might not suit us. --Golfhaus 15:07, 16 May 2005 (GMT)
Exactly. I'm thinking a grand list of everybody ever would be quite convenient. --CortJstr 16:20, 16 May 2005 (GMT) 6331555175871173760317
