Forum:Databook quotes at the beginning of character articles

I'm having trouble understanding why quotes from the databook and/or SOULs are at the beginning of many character pages. I recall reading something about someone wanting to put them in, but I can't find where I read that now. I don't think the quotes look good at the top of the pages, and they really don't impart very much information about the characters. I don't know, they just seem unneccesary to me, and they detract from the look of the arcticles IMO. Some of them pretty much make no sense [like Aizen's quote: "The gaze into the sun."], they're just floating quotes with nebulous meanings at best for the most part. I'm sure someone in power here has a vested interest in keeping them where they are, so I really don't expect anyone on the mod team to agree with me, I'm just letting you know that in my opinion they don't look good, and they make the beginnings of the articles look cluttered and strange. They might look better in a smaller font, or maybe somewhere else in the article, but at the beginning they just look ood and unconnected to any relevant data. CorpusDei 20:06, January 14, 2010 (UTC)

I do not know who made the decision to put them in. They have always been there ever since I first started visiting the wiki. I think they might have been there from the start, i.e. when those articles were first made. I personally like them since they give an interesting introduction to the character from Kubo's point of view. So I would prefer that they stay. Also, I think you are getting those quotes confused with my recent suggestion that we find a place in the articles for captions and poems. I have no intention of adding captions and poems to articles until there is a substantial agreement that it would be interesting and something worth doing. Likewise, I would be reluctant to remove something like the quotes you have mentioned, just because they have been there for so very long without complaint, just based on one persons preference. If others agree that those quotes do not add to the article, we'll consider removing them. But for now, they stay. Tinni  (Talk)  04:24, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

I'm at a bit of a loose end with this; some are easy to understand, even for someone who isn't a fan, like Jushiro, and to an extent Gin. Whereas others, like Aizen (an allusion to his ambitious nature) and Shunsui (imo, women), require knowing a little about the character to begin to understand it. Because it'd be bad form to get rid of half and leave the others, I say keep them. TomServo101 12:08, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

I looked into it and they (or at least some of them) were added a long time ago by a once very active user who rarely edits here any more. I like the quotes and I think (whether they are straight forward or not) they deserve a place on the articles. The only question for me is whether they should be at the very start or in the trivia. Personally, I like them where they are. They are an interesting intro. But I'm not really fussed about it. -- Yyp (Talk) 18:22, January 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * It has been over two weeks and nobody has taken much interest in this. It seems that nobody else has a problem with them/is content to let them stay. -- Yyp (Talk) 10:25, February 4, 2010 (UTC)