Consolidating Characters and Monsters

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With aliases, hopefully, so that searching for Perpugilliam Brown or Peri Brown will both come up…

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I am stupidly excited for this change, with all the new features it will bring.

It’s a big update though so I need to make sure I don’t break anything when I do it haha, will take it slow

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Just keep in mind that people will want to do edits on the character pages!

(And merges. Wouldn’t be terribly surprised if we had some duplicate character tags…)

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Yep luckily the moderation features I’ve already built will be able to work on these new character pages too

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That’s the good thing when things are written pretty portably!

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Sounds like a great idea. There’s a lot you could do with a character page :slight_smile:

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The lack of Oxford comma gave me a bit of a pause here :laughing:

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What is an Oxford comma?

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Star Trek characters, Batman >,< and Gandalf.

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Comma before an and in a list, for example

I went to a party with the strippers, Gandalf, and Batman.

Has an oxford comma, 3 seperate ‘groups’ of people you went to the party with, firstly strippers, secondly Gandalf, thirdly Batman

I went to a party with the strippers, Gandalf and Batman.

Doesn’t have an oxford comma, you went to a party with Batman and Gandalf who are strippers

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Thanks. We don’t use a comma in that way in Swedish. But now I know :slight_smile:

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It’s not a universal English Language thing. It’s more common in American English than British English.

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This was one of my favorite topics here in a while :slight_smile:

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As a European I feel like I chose the right way of doing it then :slight_smile:

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I’m English and I use it, for the most part. Makes it cleaner.

But the Americans can take my extra 'U’s from my cold, dead, tea infused hands.

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Is this the Color vs. Colour thing?

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No, Oxford Comma is very important otherwise sentences can be very confusing.

My favourite people are my parents, Catherine Tate and David Tennant.

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You mean, is it a ‘incorrect vs correct spelling’ thing?

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Fortunately, I’m in the habit of using the correct spelling when I write in English, to keep you lovely British people happy :wink:

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I will always use U in words where American spelling removes them, but the Oxford comma is genuinely useful.

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