Forum:CT Archive/Era on Character Profile Box

It's been an irritant to me (and many others, I'm sure) since it's inception, and it still sticks out like a sore thumb right now.

What am I talking about? Why, the Era row on the Character Profile. The problem with it is, as I see, two fold.


 * 1) It duplicates information we depict elsewhere much more easily (the tags at the top of the article) and, far more importantly....
 * 2) We are mixing OOU and IU information which makes our character boxes needlessly confusing.

What can be done?

Well, it could be simply removed, but how about this alternative:

'''We replace the eras we are using with the IU eras. Thanks to the Essential Atlas, we pretty much have IU era names for all eras from Pre-Republic era to the Skywalker epoch.'''

To give an example of what this change would mean I've put a before-and-after-infobox at the side.

IMO, the IU era names are far more meaningful, particularly since "Old Republic era" covers...24,000 years!

The only downside I can really see is that the transition involves a lot of work and cannot be done by bots, but IMO this is a change we should have done long ago.

And just to be clear - the publishing eras would remain at the top of the article. QuentinGeorge 04:22, May 1, 2010 (UTC)

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 * 1) - QuentinGeorge 04:22, May 1, 2010 (UTC)