Thread:Mehl'an ibn Qa'mar/@comment-4800771-20161219001945/@comment-1721267-20161219204741

Thank you for bringing this up, Taka! I was going to have a discussion about it with you eventually, but I suppose it's best to do it sooner rather than later.

Yes, different Wikias indeed have different views on what to do with these less significant characters. Currently, I'm going through the anime slowly, and making screenshots of all characters that appear, whether they are significant, or not so much. That way, I am ensuring that I'm not missing any of them, as I go through. I added them to the list of characters that I'm compiling in my Sandbox, which I believe will eventually become the remastered Characters page.

Now, my view is as follows: - I do not think that such minor, non-substantial and unnamed characters should get their own pages, because you are completely right in saying that it would just be a small, stub page that wouldn't get much information. Some wikias (like Fairy Tail) do it, but I honestly don't see much point in that. - On the other hand, I think that the list of all Characters could contain the images of all characters, even the less significant ones. That way, people can see all the characters that appeared in the manga/anime. If they want to know more about a major character (for example, Sinbad), they can click on their picture and they will be redirected to their page. They won't be redirected anywhere by clicking on minor character pages, though.

There was also something else that I considered, but I'd like you to tell me your thoughts on that. Currently, I programmed the list so that if you click on one of the boxes at the top (Active, Defected, Deceased...), it will show/hide characters with that status. I think that's a good way of filtering characters. Now, I could make it so that the list would show only prominent characters by default; and if you wanted to see all characters, you'd click a little button, and it would show you those minor ones as well. That way, the list wouldn't be immediately clogged with these minor, insignificant characters, but only show the major ones, and then only if you wanted, you could see the rest as well.

Thoughts?