Forum:CT Archive/Skin color in infobox

At the latest Mofference, it was suggested that a "skin color" field be added to character infoboxes to go along with the eye and hair color fields, though there was no consensus and it was suggested to make a CT for it.

Basically, the proposal is to add a "skin color" field to the infobox; if we got a specific reference somewhere, we could go with that, but I think the general idea would be "light" or "dark" or "tan," etc, for humans, rather than "black" or "white" or whatever, and "red and white" for funky colored aliens, etc. Obviously we'd just leave it blank for characters we have no description or pictures of, or if there was some debate or ambiguity with an image. This would be a useful reference, particularly for characters with a description but no image, as physical descriptions anywhere in the main body seem unpopular for some reason.

There were a few objections to this at the Mofference, though I don't recall any actual reasons against it. Some said it might lead to OR, since skin color isn't really given in the text that often for characters without pictures. Well, the same can be said about eye color and to a lesser extent hair color (fields which we decided to keep), so I don't see the problem there. Someone also said that eye color is given in lots of sources like the NEGtC but skin color isn't. Well, aside from the obligatory "We are not the NEGtC!" :-P, I don't get this either; so thirty of so characters have there eye colors listed, but we still include eye colors based off what we see in images, etc. If I missed any opposing points raised at the Mofference, my apologies. -- AdmirableAckbar (Talk) 00:29, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

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