Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-12633677-20140716155458/@comment-12633677-20140717204002

Thanks for posting, Angel. You bring up some interesting points for consideration.

The page exists to present all Vocaloid character mascots. If it's really totally necessary to have an A-Z list, than we can make an A-Z index page elsewhere. Combining the two purposes makes no sense. The mascot page needs a deep-penetrating organization system to make the entries as accessible, and the A-Z system is very shallow. The entries might as well be sorted randomly.

I can understand why you want to present the Vocaloids free of bias, but I'd like to point out that people pay the most attention to the top and bottom of articles. With my proposed redesign, the CFM Vocaloids are toward the middle, and the least-known Vocaloids (English, Spanish, private license, etc.) are toward the top and bottom. Besides, an alphabetical system isn't truly free of bias. Any organization system is going to present certain entries first, whether that be Sweet Ann or Akikioloid.

Basically, it comes down to the fact that our purpose is to direct users to information as effectively as possible. As it is, the Vocaloid mascots page is confusing and overwhelming. We need to organize things so they're easy to find.

BTW, directing users offsite (TV Tropes or Wikipedia or whatever) to get info that falls squarely into our domain means... something here needs to change. Also, I'd like to remind you that for presenting users with random Vocaloids free of all bias, the Vocaloid Mascot Highlight on the front page does its job well.

Everybody, please continue commenting. The outcome of this depends on the community, not the opinion of either me or Angel.