Talk:Character

Steve and Alex
I think Steve and Alex should be included as they are technically the mascots of Minecraft. This should qualify them. -Yekulten (talk) 19:57, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Skin character criteria
What should the criteria be for adding skins from skin packs as characters?

The current criteria for a character seems to be an individual with a proper name or title. The occupations in the The Biome Settlers and the Redstone Specialists skin packs have titles (titles are used to describe someone's position or job.) One could argue that these skins are also individuals. This should include them. However, skins such as "King," "Cat," or "Egyptian" are terms used for something that there are many of. Yet there are multiple skins for Steve and Alex. One could also argue that because the names of the skins are titles, that makes all skins from the skin packs count.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character as "a person or an animal in a book, play or film." The Webster Dictionary defines a character as "2 a :one of the persons of a drama or novel." I would change that to story as video games are none of those. If we went by the dictionary definition, the criteria should include any person, animal, or figure (canonically). However, that could be impractical and would lead to redundancy. -Yekulten (talk)
 * I think that the term character should include the multiple skins of Steve and Alex as sub bullet points. Terms used to describe something that there are many of should not be included unless in specific circumstances. My own philosophy with wikis is to lean as close to accuracy as possible.Dour1234 (talk)
 * That would include those titles then? Auften3 (talk)
 * So the real question is what are there multiple of? I think the occupations should be allowed as they're unique to the skin and are kind of individual. -Yekulten (talk)
 * Should the skins from other franchises actually count as Minecraft characters? After all, they are from other franchises. I personally do not think they should count, not only because they take up space, but also because they were added as skins to promote other franchises. Dour1234 (talk)