Forum:Quotes - Purpose, scope, formatting
What is the wiki's goal for the Quotes namespace? As it stands, and the Quotes pages are made with one of two answers in mind, which the MoS doesn't clarify. The first, currently more widespread answer is that Quotes should be a list of all of a character's quotes. The other idea is that Quotes should not be comprehensive and instead only encompass the meaningful or important quotes.
Personally, I see no reason why a Quotes page should list everything a character says. After all, there's a reason the wiki doesn't include a transcript of every cutscene. If someone comes looking for quotes said by Sora, they're looking for "My friends are my power!" and suchlike, not "Huh? What's that?", "Go on. Show them who's boss.", and "Jasmine, run!" (all real quotes currently on Quotes:Sora).
As such, I'm in favor of severely trimming the Quotes pages to only include important quotes. While we could debate what qualifies as "important", I think removing all of the filler is an easy minimum requirement for these pages. (This doesn't include action quotes; I have no issues with how they're handled now.)
As an ancillary question, should quotes be ordered by game order or in-universe chronological order? While I am slightly partial to game release order, mostly for ease of navigation, I also see why chronological order makes sense in this context (discounting pages like Quotes:Xigbar, which need fixing no matter what direction the namespace takes).
Any thoughts or ideas? —Aid1043 (talk) 19:19, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
