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Male focus has a bunch of collapsible lists that don't really help with using the tag. The information can be useful, but it should be in a list wiki instead of a tag wiki.

Dannk said:

https://danbooru.donmai.us/wiki_page_versions/617342
AFAIK adding things like BMI, blood type etc. it's frowned upon. I'm checking before I revert it back.

As long as a profile is small, limits itself to basic information, and can be kept out of the way (expand tags are a good way to do this), I see no harm in keeping it. But I will say the BMI isn't really useful in any sense since it can be easily calculated from the height and weight anyway. I don't think we really need the season color information either. Everything else seems fine to me. At the very least, the birthday and voice actress should be kept.

Blank_User said:

As long as a profile is small, limits itself to basic information, and can be kept out of the way (expand tags are a good way to do this), I see no harm in keeping it. But I will say the BMI isn't really useful in any sense since it can be easily calculated from the height and weight anyway. I don't think we really need the season color information either. Everything else seems fine to me. At the very least, the birthday and voice actress should be kept.

+1, though if the profile needs expand tags to keep it readable then that's probably more a sign that it needs to be rewritten. Definitely keep seiyuu, I notice it's often missing, and personally I keep birthdate (to recognize birthday artworks) and maybe height (height charts/jokes are quite common too)

Things like bmi, bood type, star sign etc. are best left for trivia wikis in my opinion. If our wiki pages were set up in a better way i.e:on a sidebar with all that other useless junk to serve as containment zone. I would be fine with it. But we don't have that, and we only care about information on how to identify and tag it accordingly.

Not to mention one can add an image to wiki's now.

Blank_User said:

Male focus has a bunch of collapsible lists that don't really help with using the tag. The information can be useful, but it should be in a list wiki instead of a tag wiki.

Absolutely excessive. Guarantee you no one is reading all that. Several of the tags even include descriptions and explanations on usage, things that they have their own wikis for. If it were just a couple of tags, I wouldn't mind it. A little redundancy here or there never hurts.

But it's literally every tag that could potentially be relevant to male focus. It needs some serious trimming.

As long as a profile is small, limits itself to basic information, and can be kept out of the way (expand tags are a good way to do this), I see no harm in keeping it. But I will say the BMI isn't really useful in any sense since it can be easily calculated from the height and weight anyway. I don't think we really need the season color information either. Everything else seems fine to me. At the very least, the birthday and voice actress should be kept.

Agree with keeping height, birthday, and seiyuu, at least. The rest of that stuff either isn't useful, or isn't relevant often enough to be worth mentioning. Though, I honestly don't mind that much if it's relatively contained and isn't taking up too much space.

I delete these kinds of character bios on sight. The only thing I can imagine being slightly useful is the character's birthday, but even that I'd prefer to be left to a wikia site.

The character's VA shouldn't even be in a bio section, as it's not information about the character themselves.

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