Thread:MondlichtPanda/@comment-37484301-20190809224843/@comment-36836718-20190810125038

Lol, I am fine with things as they are but Jadelady asked what was missing.

Copypasting the discussion we started in the other, previous/current/not so current thread:

Formatting of aliases, esp. chapter references in infobox

some examples of current formattings in use:

BK1 Ch9 (BK1, Ch9 with comma) Bk1 Ch9 BK.1 Ch.9 Bk.1 Ch9 BK1 Ch. 9 some with commas, some without commas (I'm not going to list all variations, that list would be too long, that's just so that you can get the jist(?) of it)

I personally prefer BK1, Ch.9 or BK1, Ch. 9

if we're discussing how to keep these shorter, we can also talk about "By Your Character" vs "By your character" vs "By You" vs "By you" vs "By MC"...

Wolf established a very long time ago that we should capitalize as much as possible (but please don't ask me where, I came across a page where he wrote that merely by accident...), which is why we usually put By instead of by and Determinant instead of determinant. He said something about it looking better capitalized. I don't want to mess with things like that.

If the MC uses an alias, different users use different versions of referring to the MC (see examples above). Your Character is usually my preference because I don't identify with my MCs. But in the character box, it can get very long.

Jadelady wrote:

Too bad we can’t abbreviate “your character” with “YC”; I think everyone would be so confused. “You” is definitely shorter so I’m for that, but I’m okay with “Your Character” if we are keeping the Y and C consistent.

Is “By Self” okay or did you want that changed to “By Himself/Herself/Yourself”? I think Self works and I think (although I could be mistaken) that capitalizing Himself now falls in the He/Himself referring to God which isn’t wanted in the context.

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If you want to see those in action: Your Character (Bloodbound) and Your Character (The Elementalists) switch from one formatting to the next in the infobox