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I remember talking about this years ago, but it really bothers me that the infoboxes aren't uniform. Compare something like the dwarves infobox to the Númenórean one or even just the hobbit one and you can see there's a word of difference. I know there's obviously reasons why something like "preferred language" will never make it into the hobbit or dwarven ones, but I really think we should sort it out.

OK, so you might be thinking, "That's all well and good, if it bothers you so much, Mith, why don't you sort it out instead of posting about it?" and that's a fair point but to decide how to standardise the infoboxes there needs to be a consensus about how they should look.

Thoughts? --Mith 10:00, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Agree. There's some confusion between Royalty and Numenorean; Dwarves has hood color while it's only relevant for the Thorin and Co dwarves.

I think we need one general "character" infobox to avoid confusion. This should be in it at least:

• Name
• Race
• Other names
• Epithets
• Year of Birth
• (Place of Birth?)
• Year of Death
• (Place of Death?)
• Age at Death
• Affiliation
• Parentage
• Children
• Base/location

Thoughts? -- Ederchil ^{(Talk/Contribs/Edits)} 12:44, 18 December 2009 (UTC)