Talk:List of Phantasy Star IV characters

message: If anyone wants to edit this page it was moved to the Encyclopedia Gamia right here Please make an account and add in the missing character pics deleted from wikipedia. --Cs california 00:20, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved to gaming wiki as tagged

message: The reason I think this article needs to remain separate is that there is quite a bit of information about the characters - too much for the main game page, which should be brief.  As for this page looking like a manual, so what?  This is Wikipedia - it's a massive archive of information of all sorts, relevant (which is relaTIVE) and extraneous.  Nothing is hurt by this page being here, it takes away from the clutter of the main page, and serves Wikipedia's main purpose - to provide information.  It's been here for years with no argument, and so it should stay.  Period.  Godheval 14:47, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging vs. Separate Article 

message: Noticed this revert war while randomly going through old contributions.  First, TTN, while I can see wanting to merge this page...  you didn't actually merge it to the main PSIV article, which is currently horrible.  Unilaterally deleting it rather than merging seems a bad idea; not to mention that the game guide material is actually pretty well laid out, hence the suggestion for a transwiki.
Second...  the images should probably be given better fair use rationales, and the ones that got improperly orphan-deleted requested undeleted at DRV (well, except for the really minor characters who shouldn't have had them in the first place).  Also...  truth be told, TTN has a point that maybe the non-game guide parts of this article could be merged back into the main PSIV article.  If this article is kept as a whole, there should be some work on more out of universe info. SnowFire 04:04, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's all I wanted was a discussion of the matter, rather than unilateral merging.  Especially since a lot of the information from this article was left out.  Personally, though, I see no problem with the "game guide" parts of this article being here.  Information is information, and it doesn't hurt anyone for it to be listed here.  Quite the contrary, it creates a single source for people to get ALL relevant information on these characters, without going to a separate wiki to find the guide information.  I could see if it was bogging down the article and making it too long, but that's not the case. I suppose I'm also a little biased, being the creator of this page and all. :)  Godheval 18:43, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Game-guide material should go, wikipedia is not a game-guide or manual. In my opinion non game guide material can be integrated into the main article, game guide material can be saved for a Phantasy Star wiki for example, but it has no place here. --Fogeltje 19:19, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Then we disagree.  But seeing as though there is a template about this kind of thing, I won't argue the point anymore.  It still seems stupid to have to source ANOTHER wiki, when we have the means right here to provide the information.  Linking to non-wiki references makes sense, but not to other wikis.  That's just my take on it. Godheval (talk) 15:08, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Maybe to you it does. Personally, I find Memory Alpha to be a tremendously wonderful place to get lost reading articles all day, but I sure as hell don't want every piece of random incidental Star Trek trivia on it to be included here because it's useful. Same with gaming wikis - I'd love a comprehensive resource for every part of PS4, but this evidently isn't the right place for that level of detail. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 15:11, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images and cleanup.