Separating power/abilities and Resistance in characters profiles and Hax that has been shown to be negated by higher power.

[Antvasima]

Okay.

@SamanPatou

Would you be willing to help out here please?

 

[SamanPatou]

I'll take a deeper look at what to do later.

 

[Antvasima]

Thank you. It is appreciated.

 

[Hop_Hoppington-Hoppenhiemer]

Honestly, you could say a resistance is an ability (asphyxiation resistance =/= just not needing air to breath / not needing to breathe) but deeper concepts sometimes are beyond a character's awareness and are passively working. Like, behind the scenes a Stand User in JJBA is doing a lot more than it looks like so, hm.

Hop would just like this and approves because it would greatly clean up pages visually, but it doesn't need to be mass-retroactively done, just update the new page template and keep it in mind for relevant characters, like with the "Key:" for catergories.

 

[SamanPatou]

Thank you. It is appreciated.

Could something like this work?:

It's preferrable to put all the "Resistances" of a character at the end of their "Powers and Abilities" section. This is to better mark which Powers they can use and which ones they resist to.
If a character has a notably long list of resistances, then it's strongly suggested to create a "tabber" for them, placing it next to the tabber for the "Power and Abilities" they possess.
Any design or division choice based around a character's form, key, time period or anything else is up to the user, possibly following the aforementioned instructions"


I gave it for granted that people already know what a tabber is, but honestly I wouldn't know how to briefly describe it. Maybe the word "tabber" can be linked to an editing guideline page or something.

 

[Antvasima]

Could something like this work?:

"It is preferable to put all the "Resistances" of a character at the end of their "Powers and Abilities" section. This is to better distinguish which Powers that they can use and which ones they can resist.
If a character has a notably long list of resistances, it is strongly suggested to create a "tabber" for them, placing it after the tabber for the "Powers and Abilities" section.
Any design or division choices based around a character's forms, keys, time periods, or otherwise, is up to personal judgement regarding what works best for the specific situation."

It seems good to me.

@AKM sama @DontTalkDT

What do you think?

 

[DontTalkDT]

Sounds ok.

 

[Antvasima]

I made some modifications to the text:

"It is preferable to put all the "Resistances" of a character at the end of their "Powers and Abilities" section. This is to better distinguish which Powers that they can use and which ones they can resist.

If a character has a notably long list of resistances, it is strongly suggested to create a "tabber" for them, placing it after the tabber for the "Powers and Abilities" section.

Any design or division choices based around a character's forms, keys, time periods, or otherwise, is up to personal judgement regarding what works best for the specific situation."

 

[Antvasima]

It would be preferable if we screencapture and link to an example image for tabbers with the resistances right after one for powers and abilities though. It makes the context easier to understand.

 

[SamanPatou]

The correction looks better, yes.

Abou the screencaptures, I've taken one from The Emperor of Mankind and another from Baal, The Gate of Hell (several Anima: Beyond Fantasy characters have these tabbers).

 

[Antvasima]

The second one looks fine as a basic-level example, but we preferably need one from a page with considerably more complex, but still logical, tabber structure as well.

 

[Bobsican]

The second one looks fine as a basic-level example, but we preferably need one from a page with considerably more complex, but still logical, tabber structure as well.

How about this for a more complex, yet coherent case?

 

[Antvasima]

That is a very good example. Thank you.

 

[AKM sama]

I made some modifications to the text:

"It is preferable to put all the "Resistances" of a character at the end of their "Powers and Abilities" section. This is to better distinguish which Powers that they can use and which ones they can resist.

If a character has a notably long list of resistances, it is strongly suggested to create a "tabber" for them, placing it after the tabber for the "Powers and Abilities" section.

Any design or division choices based around a character's forms, keys, time periods, or otherwise, is up to personal judgement regarding what works best for the specific situation."

Seems okay.

 

[Antvasima]

I applied the change:

Editing Rules

The VS Battles Wiki presently consists of 34,442 pages, most of them listing the statistics of characters across different fictional franchises. However, there is a tremendous amount of work involved in maintaining the accuracy of statistics and upholding a high quality for the profiles. In...

vsbattles.fandom.com

 

[Bobsican]

I suppose this thread can be closed now?

 

[Antvasima]

Okay.