Board Thread:Manual of Style/@comment-1187034-20150724211907

Hello, this is Collector1 and I would like to discuss if we should keep character statuses on our articles.

A few months ago I removed the "status" section of the character template and instead replaced them with a character's date of birth and date of death. I know I should have discussed this at the forum, but I did it anyway. During the high explosion of edits that occurred during the 2 weeks of hype from Jurassic World's release, someone readded this part of the template back.

Personally, I don't think we should have this section because of the decade-long time skip between Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World has left many characters that were known to have been alive to unknown. For example the Tyrannosaur Buck: He could very well be dead, but then again there is a chance that he is somehow still alive. I believe it would be best if we just list a character's date of birth and/or date of death if they have any of the two, since it's better than just guessing at a character's status.

Also, I do not like the categories based around the status of a character as well. A character can be alive in one canon and be dead in another. Robert Muldoon isn't.

So feel free to comment down below on what should be done. 