I have noticed that a lot of people have made links to canon characters in their Author profiles….
This is natural, as a number of us write from the same game/anime/etc worlds. I would like to ask folks to try not to "take" the canon character pages if possible. Here's how this can be done.
Say… ten people have a Cecil Harvey in their figment list. Is it fair that any one person gets the page Cecil Harvey? I thought about putting up a place holder page to discourage this. But not only would that take a lot of time, but it would also clutter up the directory and show non-figments in the Figment Highlight on the front page. Not good.
Here is a way to still use Cecil Harvey without claiming the canon character page. Append some sort of identifier to the character that denotes they belong to you.
For example, in my case, my world is known as Darkstar. So the natural thing for me to do is append "DS" to the end of my figment's name. However, I don't want him to show up as Cecil Harvey DS on my Auhor page… so what do I do?
If you use the following code, it will work:
[[[figments:cecil-harvey-ds | Cecil Harvey]]]This will display a link that looks like this:
Cecil Harvey
On the actual figment page, you can change the name that is shown so that it simply says "Cecil Harvey"… though I would suggest that you do append something to his name to differ him from anyone else's. In my case, I'll probably title the page Cecil Harvey (DS).
I hope this makes sense and helps!
