Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130519221031/@comment-7302713-20130519230309

Yeah, I'd read a couple of those before, but not all three completely. The problem is is that this still isn't clearly defined anywhere. So people editing a character article may agree that a particular person is a companion and add them to the category, but then they don't get added to the nav box because there isn't agreement there.

Deciding if someone is a companion on a case by case basis is slightly problematic because it involves multiple pages. A character page, the nav box page, episode/book/comic pages, and so on.

So there are characters who are considered companions in that they are in the categories and have the navbox on the page but they aren't in the navbox. Or they're listed as a company in a real-world article about a story but not on their pages or in the navbox.

We need some sort of guideline, especially because users aren't great about communicating this stuff. Someone often gets added and removed as a companion multiple times before a discussion pops up on the talk page. If the discussion ever even pops up.

IMO, tt's got to be possible to make this system less messy and clearer for readers.