Talk:Caliborn

Lord English merge
It has been discussed multiple times but the topic is being revived again. Firstly for those who don't know the current plan is wait from Homestuck to end and be sure there aren't any twists or anything regarding Caliborn and English, assuming what we think we know is correct then we can have a (presumably, or at least hopefully) final have a discussion about merging.

However there has been no talk about HOW the merge will be conducted should it come to it, as such I have smooshed the two pages together in my sandbox as a demo. There were some issues with doing that, as there are some odd layout choices regarding Caliborn's page; the etymology and symbol sections being included as sub-sections to his biography section, the fact those two sections proceed his history in the biography section, the fact a symbol section exists at all, and the disconnected "Connections to Saw" section. As such in the demo merged page I threw them all together under a new symbolism section, but really that is just a temporary thing until they can be properly sorted out, which needs to be done merge or no merge.

On to the demo page itself, the intro is just the two intros of both pages one after the other, it would need to be completely re-written to actually flow as documentation and have internal continuity. The biography section, like other character pages, is split into multiple sections, namely a Caliborn part and an English part, not much to say about that. However given the divide between Caliborn's future self/English's past self, a divide which helps to contribute to their currently separate articles, I am thinking two infoboxes, one of each of his two identities, would be the way to go, there is precedent for that too. Finally the trivia section... The trivia section, never mind its absurd length I have left it was two sub-sections so that overlap between the two sections can be addressed, but it should ultimately be a single section with no sub-sections.

So there it is, a demo merge and what work needs to be done to merge it properly, I am of course bring this up now because if we can get the page viable before the gigapause ends we can lock Caliborn's and English's pages and decide what we are going to do with the gigaupd8 info. And if we decide to merge we can implement the merged page and then add the gigaupd8 info to a single page instead of having to maintain two separate pages. - 12:02, September 10, 2014 (UTC)