Thread:VeganCritter/@comment-27888570-20161106175802/@comment-27025402-20161106221648

I assume that, ideally, a wiki "should" include the relationship sections within the character's article. See, for example, w:c:memory-alpha:Jean-Luc Picard. All of the major relationships related to Captain Picard are included on the character page.

I also think it would make sense for the relationship section of a character page to have a smaller summary along with a "&rarr;Main article:  Relationship between X and Y  " notice when the section would otherwise be too long. Unlike regular TV series, we're actually able to include direct timestamps to videos, and Critical Role generates far more content each year, so it makes sense that our relationship sections could be far longer than those of other wikis.

To my knowledge, there has never been a community discussion on how to document relationships here at the Critical Role Wiki, and the main character pages for the Vox Machina members were largely already in place by the time I joined and the older editors fizzled out. Recently, you pointed out that [[Vox Machina ]] was exceeding the preprocessor node count, so I moved the relationship content out of the article as a stop-gap measure.

However, last night, I made some optimization revisions to three of the most frequently called templates:  ep, ep/Switcher, and ep ref. Those optimizations significantly reduced the preprocessor node counts, so articles may now have many more template calls. As you can see, the wiki no longer chokes on your old revision of the "Vox Machina" page from just prior to me extracting the relationships. I still have other template optimizations pending on my task list, and eventually I need to learn to code in Lua so these templates can be converted to modules, which are much more efficient.

But that's all to say that articles should now be able to handle more extensive "Relationship" sections without needing to split them off into separate pages. This affords us the opportunity to start thinking about how we, as a community, want to structure character pages and relationship sections, and whether we want the temporary stop-gap measure of separate relationship pages to become a permanent fixture of the wiki or start returning content to character/faction pages.