Board Thread:Suggestions on Baldur's Gate Wiki/@comment-3234315-20171222065620

As there's currently a discussion about changes to the companion pages, but spread about several topics on various talk pages, I – as one of the involved people – have decided to bring the topic to the board here, to have a debate in one place, easy to be followed by all and perhaps even with more input from other community members.

What's it about?

EibhilinRhett, who's doing a great job adding companion interactions to their pages, plans to elaborate each companion's personality and make this section standard for their articles (currently it's only part of some of them). The question has come up where exactly to place this section in the articles' structure.

Islandking, administrator on this wiki, favors a position different from (Eibhi)Linn's and mine, cCC's.

The previous topics can be found here, in chronological order:
 * 1) Discussion initiated by Eibhilin
 * 2) My point of view (compleCCity)
 * 3) Islandking's first thoughts
 * 4) Linn answers
 * 5) Islandking's second thoughts

Current layout and my proposal compared Imoen quote Introduction Backstory Summary of in-game biography Baldur's Gate & Tales of the Sword Coast Prologue Chapter involvement Recruitment … Quests None for this companion Gameplay … In-game biography quote Relationships Not yet Quotes … Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear … Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn & Throne of Bhaal Prologue Chapter involvement Recruitment … Quests None for this companion Gameplay … In-game biography quote Relationships Not yet Quotes … Personality …

Imoen quote Keep as is – with some rewording and -formatting, perhaps. Baldur's Gate In-game biography Character First two paragraphs from personality section – with some rewording, perhaps. Recruitment Keep as is – with some rewording, perhaps. Quests If there are any. Gameplay Keep as is – with some rewording and -formatting, perhaps. Relationships Mostly a listing, somehow related to Gameplay. Quotes Keep as is. Siege of Dragonspear … Shadows of Amn In-game biography Character Summary of same section from part I (for those who don't play BGI), with BGII related changes and additions. Recruitment Keep as is – with some rewording, perhaps. Quests If there are any. Gameplay Keep as is – with some rewording and -formatting, perhaps. Relationships Mostly a listing, somehow related to Gameplay. Quotes Keep as is.

Cut to the basics
 * Linn and cCC favor a character-characterization near the top, if not first on the companions' respective articles, as it's common standard layout for character pages on wikis (biography, background, etc. always comes first) and also one of the most important aspects of character writing in these games
 * Islandking favors another approach and prioritizes companion recruitment options and their quests as more important to the player/wiki reader, the characterization could be placed after gameplay

cCC again
 * As a first compromise: I already had suggested to put some brief information of inter-party friend- and enemyships in this biography section, far ahead of the relationships further below and easily to access and to find by the reader.
 * I am strongly against formatting any of this in bold, as this is considered bad in almost all wiki manuals of style I know.

Let the debate begin…  