Forum:Changing Summary Sections

I'd like to suggest changing the "Summary" section on all articles to "Plot". "Summary" suggests that what follows will be a brief description. "Plot" is more general in terms of length, and it just implies that what follows will relate to the plot. I think using "Plot" as the new title will let us continue to make our plot summaries detailed without misleading readers.

I also want to suggest breaking our plot summaries into multiple subsections. This will make the longer ones much easier to read and navigate through. There may be a problem breaking them up as there technically aren't any major story arcs in HOTD, but I think we'll be able to agree on something. Here are my ideas for the subsection titles: High School, Rika's House, Takagi Estate, The Mall, and Police Station. It seems best to use the major locations where main group encounters for the sections, however, we could also use events to make it into less sections. Examples of this could be Outbreak, Before/After EMP, and Evacuation.

Please leave feedback on these suggestions. You don't have to agree with both, but please make it clear what you think in your response. I'll begin on the first one as soon as I get enough support, but the second one will need to stay open for further discussion. If you can, please let me know what you like or dislike about what I suggested and of any changes or improvements you'd like to suggest. Thanks, and I'll look forward to your feedback.Turambar1  04:47, February 16, 2011 (UTC)

That seems like a good idea. You could also just classify stuff as it happens by volume if you don't want to try to break the plot up, though I don't think that'd be too hard. Hotdcups 04:08, February 18, 2011 (UTC)

I do agree to changing the summary to plot. It seems odd why we went with summary in the first place when we basically explained that character's roles in the story. What I do see some faults with your sections is that what if a character only plays a minor role in that certain scene? I don't think writting 1-2 sentences per section would look too good...but personally I can't think of any other way then how you've mentioned it. Maybe we should have a bigger discussion on how to split the sections up? 08:30, February 18, 2011 (UTC)