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If it's in a plotline section, thats fine. But not in the first paragraph. For example (fake spoiler) ''"Niko is the protagonist from GTA IV who eventually falls in love with the Mayor and turns into King Kong"'' would be silly, and would spoil the game for anyone who has not completed it (which is most people). However, if you have a separate section detailing the life of that character, the major events should be put in there. But still don't list every single step of every single mission for someone like a protagonist - just "worked for the XXX Mafia, moved to Vice City, took over the Malibu club" etc. [[w:c:gta:User:Gboyers|Gboyers]] ([[:w:c:gta:User_talk:Gboyers|?]]) 14:16, 7 May 2008 (UTC) | If it's in a plotline section, thats fine. But not in the first paragraph. For example (fake spoiler) ''"Niko is the protagonist from GTA IV who eventually falls in love with the Mayor and turns into King Kong"'' would be silly, and would spoil the game for anyone who has not completed it (which is most people). However, if you have a separate section detailing the life of that character, the major events should be put in there. But still don't list every single step of every single mission for someone like a protagonist - just "worked for the XXX Mafia, moved to Vice City, took over the Malibu club" etc. [[w:c:gta:User:Gboyers|Gboyers]] ([[:w:c:gta:User_talk:Gboyers|?]]) 14:16, 7 May 2008 (UTC) | ||
== Phase II == | |||
This is looking great. My next question is about the selection, order and organisation of the Characters. We could just lump everyone mentioned in GTA IV into one alphabetical table, but that would be pretty hard to use, and wouldnt be worth reading. The split into "major" and "minor" characters is probably the simplest way. But where to draw the line? | |||
I think Major characters count as protagonist, family, friends, girlfriends, mission-givers and gang-leaders. Minor characters are targets, contacts etc - people who only appear in 1 mission, but are still actual characters with their own stories. Then people that are only mentioned (eg on the ingame radio, newspapers, TVs, posters, adverts etc) could be in a third list, perhaps using the four-column table (above). What do you think about that Method? | |||
The alternative is to split the characters into lots of separate lists, such as family, girlfriends etc, but that can all be done on separate pages (eg [[Girlfriends in GTA IV]]). We can do that for all the gangs too, and [[Gangs in GTA IV]]. As for the order in which to have everything, for major characters, probably in chronological order (first one you meet goes first), so it goes Niko, Roman, Vlad etc. For minor characters, alphabetical order (by surname, where possible) should be adopted. Let me know what you think - [[w:c:gta:User:Gboyers|Gboyers]] ([[:w:c:gta:User_talk:Gboyers|?]]) 14:52, 9 May 2008 (UTC) | |||